Very disturbing: I have just been prevented from accessing the EDEN Conference on law enforcement & data protection, organized by Europol & Academy of European Law, to which I had registered in early August, in the context of a research project. More info 👇

On the failure of the fight against smuggling and the search for alternatives. Zum Versagen des Kampfes gegen Schleuserei und der Suche nach Alternativen. Thanks medico international medico.de/gescheiterte-k…

Who keeps Western Europe going? Worth reading the undercover article series by Saša Uhlová on the The Guardian about the invisible lives of Eastern eu migrants doing jobs shunned by western workers - theguardian.com/commentisfree/… Also made a documentary about it arte.tv/en/videos/1044…

Recently published studies on American Psychological Association journal give evidence of traumatic impact of immigration policies on people on the move across borders. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2025-…

Is the real Giorgia Meloni a closet fascist or a conservative democrat? Worth a read for those wondering if this distinction still matters Alexander Stille theguardian.com/world/2024/sep…

Today marks 7 years since the late feminist queer activist Sarah Hegazi raised the rainbow flag at a Mashrou' Leila concert in a moment of joy so threatening to Egyptian authorities that they arrested, tortured, prosecuted her, sent her to exile. Sarah in my heart today. 🌈

La raccolta firme per il referendum sulla cittadinanza scade il 30 Settembre. Firmate. Firmate. Firmate. #ReferendumCittadinanza (è una buona occasione per farsi questo benedetto spid..) meltingpot.org/2024/09/refere…

🧵So here we are, in the two-front war that allegedly nobody wanted, and yet someone was determined to stir up. A quick note on what Israel thinks its doing, why it's starting a new war despite clear ceasefire paths on both fronts, and on something I'd call the Friedman factor.

"Using an ethnographic approach this article examines how accounts of "smuggling networks" simplify the complexities around migration and give the phenomenon distorted contours which ignore the agency of people on-the-move." #Uraba @ JEcheverri Juan Thomas Ordóñez anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jl…

🚨The Border Violence Monitoring Network just launched the first report of the  #MonitoringBorderTech series 🚨 Read it here : borderviolence.eu/reports/survei…

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Very interested to read this. Nicola Kelly has been one of the very best in covering the UK’s hostile environment and its impacts with outstanding skill, critical insights and compassion.

Croatia’s border police force appears to be burning people's personal belongings & documents they need to apply for asylum once they reach the EU, before pushing them back to Bosnia. NoNameKitchen documented piles of hundreds of phones, passports, etc. theguardian.com/global-develop…

The EU is facilitating a deadly deportation machine in Turkey that is sending 100s of thousands of Afghans back to the Taliban & Syrians to ongoing conflict A new investigation from Lighthouse Reports & partners reveals millions of euros spent on a system of abuse and forced returns 🧵

As of yesterday Italy's detention centers in Albania are operative. 1 hotspot for identification (880 places). 1 detention centre for expulsions (144 places). 1 prison (20 places). € 600ml for 5 years. Still unclear if any of this is legal. ilpost.it/2024/10/11/cen…

Polish PM Tusk to suspend right to asylum for people on the move arriving from Belarus. Claiming deterrence against hybrid warfare. politico.eu/article/poland… Maybe someone should show him Agnieszka Holland's film Green Border. Its all in there youtube.com/watch?v=2HnHxK…

Now its clear. It isn't. repubblica.it/italia/2024/10… (For English speakers) infomigrants.net/en/post/60649/…

Listen to an interview I did in May 2021 on #Gaza. History didn't start on 7 October. We have endured Israel's oppression for decades, and warned you many times of Israel's attempts to erase our people from the land. But the problem is the world didn't take our pleas seriously.

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70+ migrant-led organisations call on EU leaders to end it's war on migrants and change course in migration policy! For the past few weeks, we have watched as EU leaders have declared war on migrants and international law. equinox-eu.com/eu-leaders-mus…