Go South young man: migration in the developing world
While the West is fixated with migration to Europe from the developing world, it’s just as common for people looking for fresh opportunities and a better life to journey South-South.
Où se cachent-ils ? L’UE veut juger les #criminels_de_guerre syriens
Le Syrien, âgé de 31 ans, apparaît souriant sur une photo prise dans un parking de Stockholm (un numéro de téléphone à l’arrière-plan permet d’identifier la ville). L’image, qui aurait été publiée sur son profil Facebook puis supprimée, est anodine, à l’instar des milliers de clichés mis en ligne par les réfugiés parvenus en Europe — ils partagent l’accomplissement de leur objectif, le début d’une nouvelle vie.
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What will happen to migrants returned to Turkey?
Last Monday, 202 migrants were put on ferries from Greece and deported back to Turkey. As the first group to be returned under the EU’s migration deal with Turkey, their departure from the Greek islands of Lesvos and Chios under police escort, and their arrival at the Turkish port of Dikili, took place under the full glare of the international media. But what happened to them next – and what is likely to happen to the thousands who will surely follow – is much less clear.
▻https://www.irinnews.org/analysis/2016/04/12/what-%E2%80%8Bwill%E2%80%8B-happen-migrants-returned-turkey
#accord #Turquie #Grèce #asile #migrations #réfugiés #refoulement #push-back
Greek asylum system reaches breaking point
As Greece prepares to deport an initial 500 migrants and refugees on Monday under a controversial agreement between the EU and Turkey, senior Greek officials say the pressure to process applications quickly has become too great, at the expense of legal and ethical standards.
#Grèce #asile #migrations #réfugiés
Oxfam | Seulement 1,39% de réfugiés syriens réinstallés : les pays riches doivent passer à la vitesse supérieure
▻http://asile.ch/2016/03/30/oxfam-seulement-139-de-refugies-syriens-reinstalles-les-pays-riches-doivent-pa
Les pays riches n’ont réinstallé que 1,39% des près de 5 millions de réfugiés syriens. C’est très loin des 10% que représentent les personnes jugées vulnérables et en besoin d’un refuge sûr dans les plus brefs délais. Ce 30 mars, les pays riches se réunissent à Genève pour discuter de la crise des réfugiés en […]
Rich countries fall way short on Syrian refugee resettlement
The aim of a high-level conference in Geneva on Wednesday was to convince the international community to rapidly increase resettlement places for Syrian refugees and open up other under-used legal pathways that would remove the need for dangerous boat crossings and long, difficult treks.
It’s not just in Greece that refugees are stranded
Indonesia used a regional meeting on migration in #Bali on Wednesday to pressure Australia to take in more of the refugees who have become stranded in the Southeast Asian nation as a result of Canberra’s controversial policy of turning back asylum seeker boats.
Europe wants to deport Afghan migrants, but Kabul is reluctant to accept them
Today, German and Afghan officials are negotiating an agreement that could see thousands of Afghans return to the country on either chartered or commercial flights from across Europe over the next few months. Germany wants to begin sending Afghans back immediately, officials here say. The Afghan government has insisted Germany provide Afghanistan with more economic aid to absorb the influx.
Afghans in Germany face rejection and deportation
Part of an in-depth series on Afghanistan’s migration crisis
▻https://www.irinnews.org/news/2016/10/25/afghans-germany-face-rejection-and-deportation
Germany to repatriate about 12,000 Afghans: report
Some 12,500 Afghans whose asylum applications have been rejected will be deported from Germany, a report says. Repatriations to Afghanistan are a controversial issue owing to the fragile state of security in the country.
▻http://m.dw.com/en/germany-to-repatriate-about-12000-afghans-report/a-36421862
Reçu via la mailing-list Migreurop, le 25.01.2017:
Un deuxième #charter a été affrété lundi 23 janvier en soirée au départ de Francfort am Main direction Kaboul avec à son bord, 26 ressortissants afghans.
18 de Bavière, 4 du Baden-Württemberg, 3 d’Hambourg et 1 de Rhénanie Palatinat. Ces régions sont tenues par des coalitions politiques différentes, avec parfois la participation des Verts ou des libéraux…
Une des personnes expulsées l’a été à sa sortie de prison : la Rhénanie Palatinat par exemple a annoncé qu’elle n’expulserait que les afghans condamnés en Allemagne ou jugés « dangereux ».
Une manifestation a eu lieu à l’aéroport le lundi soir à l’appel d’une organisation de réfugiés afghans (afghan refugees movement – photos et vidéos sur leur groupe FB) et de l’organisation Pro Asyl qui a beaucoup publié sur le sujet ces dernières années, notamment sous le slogan « L’Afghanistan n’est pas un pays sûr ». Une campagne de dénonciation des expulsions vers l’Afghanistan est en cours : ▻https://www.proasyl.de/thema/unsicheres-afghanistan/#topic-content
A la Cimade, nous gardons un œil grand ouvert sur les expulsions vers l’Afghanistan et sur les réadmissions vers des pays qui renverraient ensuite vers l’Afghanistan (Norvège et Allemagne notamment.. ?).
N’hésitons pas à mutualiser nos informations !
German regions stop sending rejected asylum seekers back to Afghanistan
More and more of Germany’s regions are halting the deportation of rejected asylum seekers to Afghanistan, as the situation in the conflict-torn country worsens. Euractiv Germany reports.
▻http://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/german-regions-stop-sending-rejected-asylum-seekers-back-to-afghanistan
Ständige Angst
Ali Agi ist einer von 26 Afghanen, die im Januar in ihre Heimat abgeschoben wurden. Bei einem Sprengstoffanschlag in Kabul wird er verletzt - obwohl die Bundesregierung diesen Teil des Landes als sicher genug eingestuft hat.
▻http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/rueckfuehrungen-staendige-angst-1.3372157
Un réfugié, expulsé d’Allemagne, blessé à Kaboul dans un attentat
#Atiqullah_Akbahri a été atteint par des éclats au visage alors qu’il attendait son passeport à un guichet. Le jeune homme assure qu’il va « repartir » dès qu’il peut.
Expulsé d’Allemagne et blessé à Kaboul dans un attentat
Expulsé d’Allemagne et tellement déterminé à repartir, le jeune homme attendait son passeport à un guichet quand un kamikaze s’est fait exploser mardi sur le parking de la Cour suprême à Kaboul. Bilan : 20 morts et 41 blessés - dont lui.
▻http://www.lepoint.fr/monde/expulse-d-allemagne-et-blesse-a-kaboul-dans-un-attentat-12-02-2017-2104167_2
Facing the cold shoulder
For dozens of Afghan asylum seekers in Germany, an interview with German officials is a decisive moment that shapes their future. Despite serious security concerns, many asylum applications by Afghans are rejected. By Zivile Raskauskaite
▻https://en.qantara.de/content/afghan-asylum-seekers-in-germany-facing-the-cold-shoulder
Look back and learn: #Safe_zones in Iraq and Bosnia
A long-standing Turkish proposal to create a so-called safe zone inside Syria, where civilians displaced by fighting could find refuge and assistance without having to leave the country, received a boost last week with an apparent endorsement from European leaders.
▻https://www.irinnews.org/analysis/2016/03/15/look-back-and-learn-safe-zones-iraq-and-bosnia
#zones_sures #Syrie #conflit #guerre #histoire #Bosnie #zones_sûres #Irak #safe_zone #zone_sure
cc @reka
Human rights groups sound alarm over safe zones for Syrian refugees
Areas established for geopolitical goals may put refugees in danger, aid workers and rights groups warn
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/12/human-rights-groups-sound-alarm-over-safe-zones-for-syrian-refugees
Merkel calls for refugee ’safe zones’ in Syria
German chancellor on a visit to Turkey says “refugees will have more opportunities near their home”.
▻http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/04/merkel-refugee-safe-zones-syria-160424065956162.html
Dispatches: #ISIS Knocks on the Door of Turkey’s “Safe Zone”
Things are bad when Syrian government barrel bombs rain down on your home and force you to flee to a displaced persons camp. Things are really bad when ISIS comes to your camp and orders you to leave. But when Turkish border troops – working with the European Union to close down routes for people on the move – shoot at you as you flee ISIS to seek refuge abroad? Then, in the words of a displaced old Syrian man I spoke with last week, you “don’t know what to think anymore.”
►https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/04/18/dispatches-isis-knocks-door-turkeys-safe-zone
#EI #Etats_islamique
Safe Zones Are a ‘Great Messaging Tool’ But Unlikely to End the War
Christopher Kozak, a Syria analyst at the Institute for the Study of War, discusses the larger strategy for Donald Trump’s possible safe zones in Syria, and the challenges of partnering with certain allies in the region.
▻https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/community/2017/02/17/safe-zones-are-a-great-messaging-tool-but-unlikely-to-end-the-war
#guerre #syrie
Are safe zones only ever the least worst alternative for people who cannot flee across an international border?
The first 100 days of 2017 saw 664 people die crossing the Mediterranean trying to reach Europe. The number who died just trying to reach the North African coast is unknown. Is it any wonder, then, there are calls to establish safe zones so that those caught up in conflict and generalised violence do not have to flee at all?
The Tragic Irony of Unlawful Attacks on Civilians in Syria’s De-Escalation Zones
As the world was getting ready to celebrate New Year’s Eve, a video was posted on social media of a man carrying his young son in Idlib, Syria, while a woman desperately tries to shake the boy awake. The child was reportedly killed by one of the dozens of Syrian government-Russian airstrikes that have hit parts of Idlib and Hama since late December.
▻https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/01/10/tragic-irony-unlawful-attacks-civilians-syrias-de-escalation-zones
Le projet est de retour en 2019 :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/805214
Espions sans frontières ?
Comment l’entreprise #Palantir, en lien avec la #CIA, a percé dans le secteur humanitaire (et pourquoi cela en inquiète certains dans le milieu).
IRIN a enquêté pendant un mois sur la mystérieuse société Palantir, en lien avec le #renseignement. Ces recherches ont révélé un rapprochement de l’entreprise à des organisations d’#aide_humanitaire de toutes tailles, dont un contrat au rabais avec une agence des #Nations_Unies aux activités particulièrement délicates et une implication avortée dans l’intervention internationale face à l’épidémie d’#Ebola. Quelles sont les limites acceptables d’une telle proximité ?
▻https://www.irinnews.org/fr/analyses/2016/03/07/espions-sans-fronti%C3%A8res%C2%A0
#privatisation
Brain drain: the neglected mental health of refugees in Europe
How stigma and a lack of help are leaving trauma untreated
▻https://www.irinnews.org/fr/node/256089
#santé_mentale #réfugiés #asile #migrations #traumatisme
Trapped: Eritrean and Sudanese refugees in Israel
Over the summer of last year I travelled to the Holy Land in a bid to understand better the Arab-Israeli conflict. The aim (like that of so many others) was to further develop my understanding of why this region continues to be torn apart by fighting, why it is so difficult to discuss the issues involved, and how it might be possible to move forward from this.
Unwelcome stranger : An African asylum seeker in Israel
This short documentary tells the story of Anwar, a Sudanese anti-government activist who fled his home in Darfur in 2003.
▻https://www.irinnews.org/video/2017/07/31/unwelcome-stranger-african-asylum-seeker-israel
Faim extrême au #Soudan_du_Sud
Le premier consortium mondial sur la sécurité alimentaire, le Partenariat mondial IPC, évoque une « situation de faim extrême frisant peut-être la famine » dans certaines régions de l’État d’Unité, au Soudan du Sud.
Up to 400,000 in Sudan may need food aid due to El Nino: WFP
▻http://reliefweb.int/report/sudan/400000-sudan-may-need-food-aid-due-el-nino-wfp
Famine au Soudan du Sud : « Je suis restée une semaine avec un peu d’eau, à manger des racines »
Les Nations unies ont récemment considéré qu’il s’agissait de la pire crise depuis 1945 : plus de 20 millions de personnes sont menacées par la famine dans la région.
▻https://www.franceinter.fr/monde/famine-au-sud-soudan-j-ai-vecu-une-semaine-avec-un-peu-d-eau-a-manger-de
The struggle to survive South Sudan’s hunger season
Abuk Moukiir stands barefoot in a dry field, harvesting a few remaining peanuts with her bare, thorn-cut hands.
▻http://www.irinnews.org/feature/2018/01/08/struggle-survive-south-sudan-s-hunger-season
Greece protests border closure to Afghans as thousands stranded
Greece said on Monday it was taking diplomatic action to persuade Macedonia to accept Afghan migrants as thousands were stranded at its border and main port.
#tri #réfugiés_afghans #asile #migrations #réfugiés #catégorisation #route_des_Balkans #Grèce #Macédoine #frontières #fermeture_des_frontières
Don’t know, don’t care. How Afghans won’t be deterred by Europe’s border restrictions
For the past week, Shaima and Mohamad Ahsad, both schoolteachers from Afghanistan, have slept on the ground in Victoria Square in Athens with their four young children. Over the weekend, the small park swelled with more than 500 migrants and refugees, most of them Afghans who, like the Ahsads, have been barred from continuing their journeys.
▻https://www.irinnews.org/news/2016/02/29/dont-know-dont-care?IRIN
#réfugiés_afghans
Se l’#hotspot produce clandestinità
Per comprendere bene il dispositivo della frontiera, occorre avere la possibilità di osservare quali effetti questo produce sulle persone che l’attraversano. Per questo oggi è importante osservare Lampedusa, laboratorio dell’Europa che verrà, dove è nato il primo Hot Spot, luogo in cui le persone salvate in mare vengono smistate, etichettate a seconda delle nazioni da cui provengono o da cosa dichiarano. E’ qui che si sceglie tra rifugiato e migrante economico. Così alcune persone sono indirizzate nei percorsi di ricollocamento, altre rischiano di finire nella strada della clandestinità. Le contraddizioni di un intero continente incapace di avere una politica comune sulle migrazioni, qui assumono concretezza e si manifestano più che in un qualsiasi altro luogo. Il buco nella rete attraverso il quale i migranti “scappano” dall’Hot Spot, con la tolleranza delle forze dell’ordine, è la metafora di questa contraddizione. E’ come se tutti inconsciamente sappiano che chiudere quel buco potrebbe riportare indietro nella storia, potrebbe voler significare mettere un coperchio ad una pentola che bolle, con la possibilità che questo salti di nuovo, esattamente come è già avvenuto in passato.
▻http://riforma.it/it/articolo/2015/12/23/se-lhot-spot-produce-clandestinita
#tri #asile #migrations #réfugiés #clandestinisation #Lampedusa #empreintes_digitales
Gli hotspot per migranti in Italia stanno diventando “una fabbrica di clandestinità”
Una volta allontanati dall’hotspot, il secondo aperto in Italia, i migranti sono stati letteralmente scaricati per strada, senza sapere dove andare. In 120 sono rimasti nella centrale Piazza Vittorio, dove la Croce rossa ha portato loro del cibo. Vista la situazione, il prefetto ha allestito un ricovero di emergenza presso una palestra comunale. Alla fine, riporta il Fatto Quotidiano, i migranti sono stati ricollocati nel sistema dei Centri d’accoglienza straordinaria (Cas) dopo aver fatto la richiesta di protezione internazionale.
Migranti, gli hotspot? Una fabbrica di irregolari. “Il sistema va rivisto”
La denuncia è contenuta nel dossier Sui Centri di identificazione presentato dalla Commissione diritti umani del Senato: “l’unico risultato tangibile è l’aumento di stranieri con in mano un decreto di respingimento differito che di fatto rimangono poi nel territorio italiano”. Deludenti i risultati dei ricollocamenti
▻http://www.redattoresociale.it/Notiziario/Articolo/500765/Migranti-gli-hotspot-Una-fabbrica-di-irregolari-Il-sistema-va-rivis
Cos’è un hotspot ? Un istant doc denuncia : fabbriche di clandestinità
Centri in cui identificare rapidamente, fotosegnalare e registrare le impronte digitali dei migranti in arrivo. Centri che ci chiede l’Europa, a noi italiani e ai greci. Questo sono gli hotspot. Strutture di transito – e non di accoglienza – che hanno lo scopo di classificare i migranti: migranti “economici” o richiedenti asilo. In 48 ore (estensibili al massimo a 72 ore), dunque, si decide il destino di chi sbarca: rimpatrio per i primi (economici) domanda di protezione internazionale per i secondi. Quarantotto ore, solo quarantotto ore. Tempi strettissimi. Ne consegue che la classificazione avviene per lo più in base alla nazionalità del migrante. E, talvolta, come denunciano Marco Bova, Francesco Bellina e Marta Gentilucci, l’immediatezza si traduce in una classificazione basata sul colore della pelle: nero? Migrante economico; più chiaro? Richiedente.
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjX9qikQJCk
Quelques notes :
Europol, EASO, Eurojust & Frontex s’occupent des procédures à l’intérieur des hotspots.
Alessandra Sciurba (L’Altro diritto Sicilia) parle de « ligne_de_couleur » (#linea_di_colore) —> les Noirs d’un côté, les moins noirs d’un autre côté
Les migrants doivent remplir une feuille A4 (recto) dans laquelle on leur demande de mettre par écrit :
– nom/prénom
– Date de naissance
– Nationalité
– Une question « venu en Italie pour… » avec des options à cocher
Les mots de Davide Camarrone (écrivain) :
«Perché noi immaginiamo che sia lavoro sporco l’accoglienza? Perché l’abbiamo svolto come un lavoro sporco. Il tema non è la condizione oggettiva nella quale ci troviamo. Il tema è la condizione soggettiva con la quale ci siamo posti dinanzi a un ruolo che ci veniva assegnato dalla Storia, dalla geografia. L’Europa sta, paradossalmente, essendo stata costruita per superare i nazionalismi, ritrovando nei nazionalismi dei singoli paesi membri la sua ragion d’essere. E questa è la ragione non del fallimento delle politiche migratorie. Questa sta diventando la ragione della dissoluzione dell’Europa».
Italy’s system of migration management has been called an ‘illegality factory’. This is how it works.
The practices within the so-called ‘hotspots’ have received wide condemnation among human rights activists: fingerprinting takes place, even with the use of force; people are kept for periods much longer than the Italian legislation would allow; and the living conditions go from poor to appalling. In December 2015, for example, the humanitarian health organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) decided to leave the centre of Pozzallo, in southern Sicily, because “undignified and inadequate reception conditions” made it impossible to care for their patients.
▻http://mdxminds.com/2016/03/09/italys-system-of-migration-management-has-been-called-an-illegality-factor
How Italy’s flawed hotspots are creating thousands of “clandestini”
In Italy, the first ‘hotspot’ for screening migrants and asylum seekers opened last September on the island of Lampedusa. Seven months later, critics say the system is excluding migrants from official reception systems and encouraging them to disappear into the informal economy.
▻https://www.irinnews.org/news/2016/04/13/how-italy%E2%80%99s-flawed-hotspots-are-creating-thousands-%E2%80%9Cclande
Quelle persone respinte che diventano «fantasmi» vaganti
Gente senza un soldo in tasca, senza documenti, senza sapere una parola d’italiano, digiuni non solo di cibo, ma anche della minima conoscenza dei propri diritti. Donne e uomini che diventano così «bocconi» prediletti di ogni sorta di sfruttatore. Si stima (per difetto) che siano circa quattro mila
▻http://www.repubblica.it/solidarieta/cooperazione/2016/05/19/news/open_europe-140167602
#hotspots
Climate change bites Kenyan tea farmers
You wouldn’t typically expect heavy rainfall and frost in East Africa. But the Earth’s climate is changing – and this is affecting one of the world’s largest tea-producing regions, in central Kenya.
Voici ce que faisait notre ami Otto SImonett dans les années1980 : pour le PNUE, il modélisait déjà les effets du changement climatique. Ce n’est donc pas un truc très nouveau... Ici c’est le pays d’à côté et le café (pas le thé) Mais c’est impressionnant.
Cela dit, c’est très utile d’avoir des archives hyper bien classées (mot clé otto simonett) parce que je viens juste de retrouver ceci en rapport avec le post :
Il s’agit bien de la même chose et ça date aussi des années 1980 et c’est toujours herr simonett, qui se faisait appeler knut simonett durant sa période norvégienne !
Films from the climate change front line
Seven in 10 of Kenya’s rural population makes a living from agriculture, mostly on small plots. In a good year, subsistence farmers harvest enough to feed themselves and their families, with perhaps a little surplus to sell at market.
▻https://www.irinnews.org/video/2017/12/24/films-climate-change-front-line
#film #vidéo
On est fort, en #Suisse...
:-(
Les frais de l’#asile sont intégrés à l’#aide_au_développement
Pour atteindre les objectifs internationaux en matière d’aide au développement, la Confédération intègre dans sa comptabilité l’aide versée aux requérants d’asile en Suisse.
▻http://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/6928182-les-frais-de-l-asile-sont-integres-a-l-aide-au-developpement-.html
#hypocrisie #réfugiés #migrations #Suisse #budget #frais_de_l'asile #comptabilité
Aid credibility at stake as donors haggle over reporting rules
The world’s rich countries spend billions at home but report it as “aid”, exploiting a loophole that enables donors to mislead the public and cut vital development budgets. IRIN has dug into the data to reveal the worst offenders and the extent of a practice that topped $15 billion last year, seriously undermining the credibility of aid statistics.
▻https://www.irinnews.org/investigations/2017/07/21/aid-credibility-stake-donors-haggle-over-reporting-rules
Ethiopian refugees face dam backlash in Egypt
Persecuted ethnic Oromo demand UN protection amid xenophobic attacks and government hostility over the Blue Nile dam.
▻http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2013/06/201361711365644208.html
#réfugiés #asile #migration #Egypte #Ehiopie #Oromo #xénophobie #racisme
Ethiopian Oromo refugees face bribes, harassment in Kenya
Ethiopian Oromo refugees fleeing to Kenya to escape persecution say they are finding life on the streets of Nairobi no better than the insecurity they left behind, as they are targeted by bribes and harassment and forced into vast camps with few prospects or protections.
