Fingerprinting by force : secret discussions on « systematic identification » of migrants and asylum seekers
Asylum seekers and irregular migrants arriving in the EU are supposed to be fingerprinted in their country of arrival, and to have their details placed in the EU’s Eurodac database. If the individual later comes into contact with the authorities elsewhere, the country responsible for them - their “country of arrival” - can then be identified. In the face of a growing number of people entering the EU, some countries are either unwilling or unable to meet the legal requirement for fingerprinting.
In response, the European Commission and Member States are now discussing, in secret, a set of “best practices for Member States to follow in order to ensure that their obligations under the #Eurodac Regulation are fulfilled”. The guidelines ultimately address “fingerprinting [with] the use of a proportionate degree of coercion” including on “vulnerable persons, such as minors or pregnant women”. The aim is to “uphold the integrity of the Dublin Regulation” - the legal basis for Europe’s asylum system, which many consider to be fundamentally flawed.
▻http://www.statewatch.org/news/2015/feb/forced-fingerprinting.htm
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(c’est un document qui date de ce printemps, mais que je publie ici pour archivage)