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tearsofrefugees · 5 months
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dailycyprus · 2 years
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Illegal migrants in Cyprus increased by 213%
Illegal migrants in Cyprus increased by 213%
The number of people who have entered Cyprus illegal has increased by 213%, according to Frontex. Specifically, some 16,000 – mainly from Bangladesh, Egypt and Tunisia – used the Central Mediterranean route. More than 13,000 crossed via the Eastern Mediterranean, a 116% increase last year. According to its initial calculations, Frontex said there were 86,420 irregular crossings into the…
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mirrorofliterature · 10 months
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why does america have so many undocumented migrants?
no, it’s not because people are ‘skipping the queue’ and ‘illegal’ :)
after reading my weekly email from never again action (which I receive after donating to them for FTH), I got a lovely reminder of how terrible ICE is.
so, to answer the question: because it is in america’s capitalist interests to have a cheap, exploitable and disposable source of labour. ‘illegality’ is a construct that is dehumanising and inaccurate.
a lot of us companies do not want to pay people properly or have proper safety protocols, so they hire undocumented workers to skirt around the law.
in short: zoom out. why has america created this system? exploitation.
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migrantsday · 3 months
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Give residency or work permits to irregular migrants in their country.
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Ways in which states can promote safe migration.
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news2sea · 1 year
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France-based NGO ship rescues 440 irregular migrants in Mediterranean The Geo Barents ship belonging to the France-based non-governmental organization (NGO) Doctors Without Borders (MSF) rescued 440 irregular migrants in distress in the international waters of the Mediterranean off the coast of Malta. In the post made on MSF's Twitter accounts, it was stated that as a result of the call made yesterday by the civil organization called "Alarm Phone", which announced the calls for help from migrants in the Mediterranean, on social media, Geo Barents, who went to the north to avoid the stormy weather, was able to reach the area where the migrant boat is located after a 10-hour journey. It was stated that the Geo Barents crew could not carry out the rescue operation at the first stage due to adverse conditions and only distributed life jackets to the immigrants, and then they rescued a total of 440 people, including 30
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alabs1 · 1 year
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FG Repatriates 159 Irregular Migrants From Libya
FG Repatriates 159 Irregular Migrants From Libya
The federal government, in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration, on Tuesday, repatriated another 159 Nigerian irregular migrants from Libya. Kabiru Musa, Chargé D’affaires en titre, of the Nigerian Mission to Libya, made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja. Mr Musa said the 159 evacuees left Mitiga International Airport, Tripoli, at 2:30 p.m. and are expected…
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humanrightsday · 13 years
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What is the specific mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants?
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The mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants was created in 1999 by the Commission on Human Rights (replaced last year by the U.N. Human Rights Council) to "examine ways and means to overcome the obstacles existing to the full and effective protection of the human rights of migrants, including obstacles and difficulties for the return of migrants who are undocumented or in an irregular situation." The SR's broad mandate includes the human rights of both documented and undocumented migrants, including issues of 'irregular migration,' such as smuggling, trafficking, and asylum seekers.
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The Trudeau government has reached a long-discussed deal with the United States on irregular migration which will allow Ottawa to close the Roxham Road irregular crossing at the Canada-U.S. border, sources told CBC News.
The deal would see Canada announce openings for 15,000 migrants from the Western Hemisphere to apply to enter the country legally, a senior source with knowledge of the agreement told CBC News. Radio-Canada was first to report the deal. The Los Angeles Times was the first to report the number of migrants.
The deal comes in the form of a change to how the Safe Third Country Agreement between Canada and the United States is applied. It would close a loophole in the agreement, which came into force in 2004 and currently prevents Canadian law enforcement from turning back asylum seekers who enter Canada from the United States at border locations that are not official ports of entry.
The change would apply across the entire Canada-United States border and would allow both countries to turn back asylum seekers at unofficial border crossings. [...]
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Democratic PR:
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They argue the deadly fire should never have happened and are placing at least some of the blame on the Biden administration and its expansion of the policy, known as Title 42.
Its use forces the migrants into dangerous, overcrowded conditions in Mexico, they say.
"Exploiting a human tragedy to illustrate the 'risks' of irregular migration ignores the fact that the Guatemalan victims of this fire had no viable legal pathways and the Venezuelan victims were detained as a result of the Biden Admin's expansion of Title 42," Andrea Flores, a former member of Biden's National Security Council who handled border policy said via Twitter.
The Trump-era policy gives border agents the power to turn away migrants without legal process. It's set to end on May 11 when the administration allows the public health emergency for Covid 19 — that is the basis for Title 42 — expires.
How's the meme go? Men can't trust women cuz of makeup and women can't trust men cuz of assault. Well, BIPOC can't trust a single political party in the US government because of systematic abuses.
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tearsofrefugees · 6 months
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dailycyprus · 2 years
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44 irregular migrants arrived in Paphos
A group of 44 migrants arrived Thursday in Paphos through a boat and a man is missing and found dead local media reported
A group of 44 migrants arrived Thursday in Paphos through a boat and a man is missing and found dead local media reported as they stated that he had gone missing at sea and subsequently drowned. Police confirmed the reports. Helicopters and the coastguard had been dispatched to assist in the search and rescue mission of a missing man. The man was later found unconscious at 9:50 am. A medical…
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gatheringbones · 6 months
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[“You might be thinking that we seem to be talking about people smuggling rather than people trafficking, and that those two things are different. People smuggling is when someone pays a smuggler to get them over a border: in UK law, human trafficking is when someone is transported for the purposes of forced labour or exploitation using force, fraud, or coercion. It’s tempting to think of these as separate things, but there is no bright line between them: they are two iterations of the same system.
Let’s break it down. It is common for people to take on huge debts to smugglers to cross a border. So far, so good: clearly smuggling. But once the journey begins, the person seeking to migrate finds that the debt has grown, or that the work they are expected to undertake upon arrival in order to pay off the debt is different from what was agreed. Suddenly, the situation has spiralled out of control and they find themselves trying to work off the debt, with little hope of ever earning enough to leave. Smuggling becomes trafficking. The discourse of trafficking largely fails to help people in this situation, because it paints them as kidnapped and enchained rather than as trying to migrate. It therefore seeks to ‘rescue’ them by blocking irregular migration routes and sending undocumented people home— often the very last thing trafficked people want. Although they might hate their exploitative workplace, their ideal option would be to stay in their destination country in a different job or with better workplace conditions; an acceptable option would be to stay in the country under the current, shit working conditions, but the very worst option would be to be sent home with their debt still unpaid.
By viewing trafficking as conceptually akin to kidnap, anti-trafficking activists, NGOs, and governments can sidestep broader questions of safe migration. If the trafficked person is brought across borders unwillingly, there is no need to think about the people who will attempt this migration regardless of its illegality or conclude that the way to make people safer is to offer them legal migration routes. People smuggling tends to happen to less vulnerable migrants: those who have the cash to pay a smuggler upfront or have a family or community already settled in the destination country. People trafficking tends to happen to more vulnerable migrants: those who must take on a debt to the smuggler to travel and who have no community connections in their destination country. Both want to travel, however, and this is what anti-trafficking conversations largely obscure with their talk about kidnap and chains.
Our position is that no human being is ‘illegal’. People should have the right to travel and to cross borders, and to live and work where they wish. As we wrote in the introduction, border controls are a relatively new invention – they emerged towards the end of the nineteenth century as part of colonial logics of racial domination and exclusion. (ICE, the brutal American immigration enforcement police, was only created in its modern form in 2003; the previous iteration of it is as recent as the 1930s, an agency called Immigration and Naturalization Services.) The mass migrations of the twenty-first century are driven by human-made catastrophes – climate change, poverty, war – and reproduce the glaring inequalities from which they emerge. Countries in the global north bear hugely disproportionate responsibility for climate change, yet disproportionately close their doors to people fleeing the effects of climate choas, leaving desperate families to sleep under canvas amid snow at the edges of Fortress Europe. As migrant-rights organiser Harsha Walia writes, ‘While history is marked by the hybridity of human societies and the desire for movement, the reality of most of migration today reveals the unequal relations between rich and poor, between North and South, between whiteness and its others.’
A system where everybody could migrate, live, and work legally and in safety would not be a huge, radical departure; it would simply take seriously the reality that people are already migrating and working, and that as a society we should prioritise their safety and rights. Some journalists and policymakers argue that migration brings down wages. However, the current system, wherein undocumented people cannot assert their labour rights and as a result are hugely vulnerable to workplace exploitation, brings down wages by ensuring that there is a group of workers who bosses can underpay or otherwise exploit with impunity. Low wages and workplace exploitation are tackled through worker organising and labour law – not through attempting to limit migration, which produces undocumented workers who have no labour rights.
However, instead of starting from the premise of valuing human life, the countries of the global north enact harsh immigration laws that make it hard for people from global south countries to migrate. You don’t stop people wanting or needing to migrate by making it illegal for them to do so, you just make it more dangerous and difficult, and leave them more vulnerable to exploitation. Punitive laws may dissuade some from making the journey, but they guarantee that everyone who does travel is doing so in the worst possible conditions. Spending billions of dollars on policing borders actively makes this worse, without addressing the reasons people might want to migrate – notably, gross inequality between nations, which in large part is a legacy of colonial – and contemporary – plunder and imperialist violence.”]
molly smith, juno mac, from revolting prostitutes: the fight for sex workers’ rights, 2018
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menalez · 4 months
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But politicians, seizing on some evidence of antisemitic displays at pro-Palestinian protests to link Muslims and migrants with antisemitism, have taken the opportunity to advance an anti-migrant agenda. When Mr. Scholz was asked about antisemitism among people “with Arab roots” in an October interview, he said Germany needed to sort out more precisely who is allowed to come into the country and who is not. “We are limiting irregular migration,” Mr. Scholz pronounced, before adding a little later, “We must finally deport on a large scale.”
Several other high-ranking politicians have also pushed the need for stricter border controls in the aftermath of Oct. 7. Friedrich Merz, leader of the opposition Christian Democrats, spoke out against taking in refugees from Gaza, claiming that Germany already has “enough antisemitic young men in the country.” Christian Lindner, the finance minister and head of the center-right Free Democratic Party, called for a fundamental change in immigration policy to “reduce the appeal of the German welfare state.”
Mr. Lindner soon got his way. In early November, after months of intense discussions, the federal government and the 16 state governors agreed on stricter measures to curb the number of migrants entering the country. Asylum seekers now receive less cash and have to wait twice as long to get on welfare, taking even more autonomy away from their lives. According to the new plan, Germany will also extend its border checks, speed up asylum procedures and look into the idea of offshoring asylum centers.
Worryingly, antisemitic incidents have been on the rise in recent weeks. Yet it is troubling that Germany, of all places, should frame antisemitism as an imported problem. Crime statistics show that a vast majority of antisemitic crimes are committed by right-wing extremists and not by Islamists, let alone migrants or Muslims. Germany’s leaders, aided by major media figures, are using the fight against antisemitism as a pretext to encourage racist resentment and anti-migrant sentiment.
this is so worrying
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fatehbaz · 11 months
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Coastguards have recovered the bodies of 41 migrants off the Tunisian coast as the number of people dying as they try to reach Europe from Africa soars. A senior official said more than 200 people had drowned in the last 10 days. Tunisian morgues were running out of space [...]. "On Tuesday, we had more than 200 bodies, well beyond the capacity of the hospital, which creates a health problem," said Faouzi Masmoudi, justice official in the port city of Sfax [...]. "There is a problem with large numbers of corpses arriving on the shore. We don't know who they are or what shipwreck they came from and the number is increasing." The UN's migration agency said that when people departing from the Libyan coast were included, a total of nearly 300 people had died over the past week-and-a-half [...]. Mr Masmoudi said funerals were held "almost every day to reduce the pressure on hospitals". [...] [A] national guard official [...] said the cumulative total of fatalities was unprecedented over such a short period. Tunisia has become a transit point for irregular migrants, mostly sub-Saharan Africans, who seek to reach Europe by sea. There have been varying reports of the number of migrant deaths at sea, with the UN's Missing Migrants Project saying 300 people had died in the Central Mediterranean in the last 10 days alone.
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Text by: Emily McGarvey. “More than 200 migrants die off Tunisia in just 10 days.” BBC News. 28 April 2023.
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Sebastião Salgado and the wild poetry of the Amazon
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Sebastião Salgado was traveling alone. He had documented the great migratory movements of the planet throughout 35 countries, always in solitude. Three Leica R6s (the same ones with which he immortalized the attack on Ronald Reagan or the burning of oil wells in Kuwait), two ostrich skin bags, good walking shoes and a Moleskine notebook (where he took exquisite notes for his photo captions). In the fall of 1997, I accompanied him on his reporting work on irregular migration routes between Africa and the coast of Cádiz in southern Spain, which were later included in his 2000 book Exodus. For 10 days we lived at a frantic pace to document the daily traffic of small boats that each day caused dozens of deaths. Every night brought a hellish situation, with migrants fighting for life over death. We hardly slept. Salgado was coming out of a severe illness, and his skull looked polished like a billiard ball, but we still spent our nights on patrol aboard Customs Surveillance helicopters, while our days were spent on Spanish Civil Guard boats patrolling the Strait of Gibraltar. We talked to many migrants, and Salgado encouraged them to fight. It was 10 breathless days. Salgado’s work earned him the Prince of Asturias Award in 1998.
He is a very tough guy. Meticulous. Engaged. And that spirit is reflected in projects such as Amazônia: journeys through the Amazon jungle over several years to portray the ecological and human tragedy of the destruction of this critical green area of the world. It is an amazing window into an ancient and endangered world inhabited by 310,000 indigenous people from 169 ethnic groups who speak no fewer than 130 languages. “Through the power of images, we aspire to highlight the majesty of nature and the noble simplicity of the lifestyle of the indigenous population. We believe that humanity as a whole has the responsibility of caring for its common heritage,” explains the artist about this project, which now comes in the form of an exhibition in Madrid.
The exhibition Amazônia can be visited at Fernán Gómez Centro Cultural de la Villa, in Madrid, between September 13 and January 14, 2024.
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rtrixie · 9 months
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Over 400000 legal immigrants on top of doing basically nothing about illegal arrivals. Meloni is the biggest political fraud I’ve seen on the right in my lifetime.
Immigration is the core issue, no “based” talking points RW parties make on any other topic will matter if they don’t deliver on this.
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