• MEDU - MAPPA INTERATTIVA

    http://esodi.mediciperidirittiumani.org

    Je ne connaissais pas (aussi ce lien : http://www.mediciperidirittiumani.org/en)

    cc @cdb_77

    EXODI is an interactive web map built upon testimonies of 1,000 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa that were collected in nearly three years of activity (2014-2016) by the operators and volunteers of Medici per i Diritti Umani/Doctors for Human Rights (MEDU).They are part of those 730 thousand men, women and children landed on Italian shores in the last 15 years, of which more than half in the last 32 months. The map describes in the simplest and detailed way the Migratory Routes from Sub-Saharan Countries to Italy, the difficulties, the violence, the tragedy and hopes encountered during the trip by the protagonists. This map is addressed to all those who want to understand and deepen the human experience marking our time. In this sense, EXODI is not only a map showing the stages and paths, as well as a report with data and statistics, but above all, a testimony that describes life stories. It is an interactive and in progress web map that will be periodically updated with new testimonies gathered from all those who will share the story of their own journey. The information was collected in Sicily (in the Centres of Special Reception for Asylum Seekers/CAS of Ragusa and in the Reception Centre for Asylum Seekers/CARA of Mineo) and in Rome (in informal reception centres and at Medu Psychè Centre for rehabilitation of victims of torture). Testimonials were also collected in Ventimiglia and Egypt, specifically in Aswan and Cairo. In all these places Medu’s work guarantees social and health support to migrants, first medical assistance as well as medical and psychological rehabilitation services for victims of torture and inhuman and degrading treatment. Through updated data EXODI aims also to describe the physical and mental consequences of the journey on the health of an entire generation of young Africans; a journey in which, as a witness said, “you are no longer considered as a human being”.

    #migrations #réfugiés #asile #circulations #itinéraires

  • #Move_or_die

    Too often in Italy the arrival of migrants and refugees is perceived as “the” invasion “of a blurred crowd. Statements such as “let’s help them in their country” or its more xenophobic variant “They have to remain in their homeland” or even “we welcome refugees but illegal immigrants must be rejected” are often the legacy of politicians and stereotypes. This report, based on the stories and testimonies of hundreds of forced migrants from West Africa and the Horn of Africa, is an effort to provide data and information to foster better understanding this complex phenomenon, beyond dangerous and misleading simplifications.

    Move or die. Migratory Routes from Sub-Saharan Countries to Europe summarises the information and testimonies collected by Medici per i Diritti Umani (Doctors for Human Rights) – #MEDU during the first 6 months of activities of the project “ON TO: Stopping the torture of refugees from Sub-Saharan countries along the migratory route to Northern Africa” in the Special Reception Centres for asylum seekers in Ragusa Province and in the Reception Centre for Asylum Seekers of Mineo, in Catania Province. Moreover, it reports the data and evidence gathered in 11 months of activities in informal settlements in Rome: squats, shanty towns, railway stations.

    This report focuses in particular on the knowledge gained about migration routes, smuggling and trafficking on the way to Northern Africa and on the kind of violence and tortures migrants suffer during this long journey. The testimonies collected inside the reception centres in Sicily confirm that the business of migration across the Sahara Desert, Libya and the Mediterranean Sea appears to be increasingly a multiform network run by a combination of highly organized smugglers and non professional individuals or groups acting alone. The report also provides an overview of the psychological and physical consequences of the #trauma experienced by migrants in their country of origin or en-route.

    According to the testimonies collected in Sicily and in Rome, the most common forms of torture and cruel and inhuman treatment were: beatings and other forms of blunt trauma; deprivation of water and food; beatings of the feet (Falaka); suspension and stress positions (handcuffing, standing up for long periods etc); threats of harm and death to migrants or their families; sexual or religious offences and other forms of degrading treatment; deprivation of medical treatment when needed; bearing witness to torture and cruel treatment. The violence occurred particularly in Libya.

    From the analysis of individual stories it’s clear that the traditional dichotomy between refugees and economic migrants proves to be more an abstract concept than a tool able to adequately understand such a complex reality. It’s undeniable for example that asylum seekers from West Africa may migrate in search of a better life but at the same time a large part of them –the same as many Eritreans who are escaping a brutal dictatorship – are escaping from a multitude of unbearable circumstances which pose a threat to their lives. Regardless of country of origin, many of them must therefore undoubtedly be considered as forced migrants.

    The reception systems in Italy and Europe need to take into account the many vulnerabilities of asylum seekers who experienced this journey, as these factors remain upon their arrival.


    http://www.mediciperidirittiumani.org/en/move-or-die
    #itinéraires_migratoires #parcours_migratoires #flux_migratoires #Afrique #cartographie #visualisation #smugglers #passeurs #migrations #asile #réfugiés #torture #violence #migrations_économiques #migrants_économiques #Libye #vulnérabilité
    cc @reka

    Lien vers le rapport :
    http://www.mediciperidirittiumani.org/pdf/MOVE_OR_DIE_summary.pdf

  • Italia har reddet 5000 migranter - Nyheter, tv og radio fra hele verden - NRK.no

    http://www.nrk.no/verden/italia-har-reddet-5000-migranter-1.11765970

    L’Italie dit avoir sauvé 5000 migrants en Mer Méditerranée depuis le début de l’année.

    Været har vært rolig og fint de siste dagene, og da øker også antallet båter med migranter. De fleste kommer fra Eritrea, Syria og fra land sør for Sahara.

    Den italienske marinen og kystvakten overvåker havområdene for å hindre at båtene forliser og migrantene drukner.

    De fleste migrantene blir tatt med til Sicilia når båtene blir brakt til land av marinen eller handelsfartøy.

    #migrations #asile #méditerranée

    • Quel courage ! je monterai jamais dans un truc pareil même si j’ai voyagé dans des 504 avec 24 personnes dedans, mais on allait jamais qu’à 20km/heure sur la terre, boueuse certes, mais on ne risquait pas de mourir à chaque tournant !

    • mmmhhh... chèr/e @geneghys, ton commentaire est-ce ironique, n’est-ce pas ?

      Sur l’opération Mare Nostrum (celle qui devrait justement sauver des vies), v. http://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/190514/immigration-les-dessous-de-loperation-militaire-mare-nostrum
      ou http://asiloineuropa.blogspot.ch/2014/05/cose-mare-nostrum-quanto-costa-come.html (mais c’est en italien)

      Et puis, voir aussi le rapport « Unsafe harbours » sur les refoulements à la frontière entre l’Italie et la Grèce (mer Adriatique) : http://www.mediciperidirittiumani.org/en/unsafe-harbours-report-readmissions-greece-italian-ports-vio

      Pour ne pas parler des accords entre l’Italie et la Libye —> sur ce sujet v. notamment mon article paru dans @VisionsCarto : http://visionscarto.net/vaincre-une-mer-deserte-et-fermee

      Les refoulements sont malheureusement une pratique courante un peu partout dans le monde : Grèce, mais aussi Bulgarie, Suisse (yes yes yes), Italie, Israël, Hongrie, pour ne pas parler de Serbie et Macédoine.

    • @CDB_77 à moitié...nous, on les mélange dans les avalanches, ni vus, ni connus. Mais il faut voir l’article où les Grecs se sont fait pincés de nuit par les secouristes turcs. Il faudrait que je retrouve l’article.
      Devant les cercueils de Lampedusa, Bertoso s’est fendu d’une larme hypocrite, puis a débloqué des roros supplémentaires pour améliorer Frontex...

    • Dans ces articles on parle de refoulements / #push-back —> certains sont des articles scientifiques, donc pas disponibles online... (mais si tu en as besoin d’un en particulier, pose la question, quelqu’un répondra...):

      1. Amnesty International. 2010. “Greece: The Dublin II Trap: Transfers of Asylum-Seekers to Greece”. EUR 25/001/2010. http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/EUR25/001/2010.
      2. Amnesty International. 2013. “Frontier Europe. Human Rights Abuses on Greece’s Border with Turkey.” www.amnesty.org/fr/library/asset/EUR25/008/2013/en/d93b63ac-6c5d-4d0d-bd9f-ce2774c84ce7/eur250082013en.pdf.
      3. Bialasiewicz, Luiza. 2012. “Off-Shoring and out-Sourcing the Borders of EUrope: Libya and EU Border-Work in the Mediterranean.” Geopolitics 17 (4): 843–66.
      4. Brolan, Claire. 2003. “An Analysis of the Human Smuggling Trade and the Protocol Against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Air and Sea (2000) from a Refugee Protection Perspective.” International Journal of Refugee Law 14 (4).
      5. Cuttitta, Paolo. 2007. “Le monde-frontière. Le contrôle de l’immigration dans l’espace globalisé.” Translated by Francesco Ragazzi. Cultures & Conflits, no. 68 (December): 61–84. doi:10.4000/conflits.5593.
      6. “Demiertzis Nasos = Nom Du Propriétaire de L’entreprise Qui a Construit Le Mur Dans La Région de l’Evros.”
      7. “Description Assez Détaillée de La Procédure D’asile En Grèce, Étape Par Étape (2008).”
      8. Fischer-Lescano, Andreas, Tillmann Löhr, and Timo Tohidipur. 2009. “Border Controls at Sea: Requirements under International Human Rights and Refugee Law.” International Journal of Refugee Law 21 (2): 256–96. doi:10.1093/ijrl/eep008.
      9. Greek Council for Refugees, and ProAsyl. 2012. “‘I Came Here for Peace’. The Systematic Ill-Treatment of Migrants and Refugees by State Agents in Patras.” http://www.proasyl.de/fileadmin/fm-dam/p_KAMPAGNEN/Flucht-ist-kein-Verbrechen/Patras-Webversion04D-DS-k_03.pdf.
      10. Heijer, Maarten Den. 2013. “Reflections on Refoulement and Collective Expulsion in the Hirsi Case.” International Journal of Refugee Law, July. doi:10.1093/ijrl/eet020. http://ijrl.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/07/11/ijrl.eet020.
      11. Human Rights Watch. 2008. “Left to Survive. Systematic Failure to Protect Unaccompanied Migrant Children in Greece.” http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/greece1208webwcover_0.pdf.
      12. Hyndman, Jennifer, and Alison Mountz. 2008. “Another Brick in the Wall? Neo-Refoulement and the Externalization of Asylum by Australia and Europe1.” Government and Opposition 43 (2): 249–69. doi:10.1111/j.1477-7053.2007.00251.x.
      13. International Commission of Jurists. 2011. “International Commission of Jurists Submission to the Committee against Torture on the Combined 5th and 6th Periodic Reports of Greece.” http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cat/docs/ngos/ICJ_Greece_CAT47.pdf.
      14. Jumbert, Maria Gabrielsen. 2013a. “Controlling the Mediterranean space through surveillance.” Espace populations sociétés. Space populations societies, no. 2012/3 (July): 35–48.
      15. ———. 2013b. “Controlling the Mediterranean space through surveillance.” Espace populations sociétés. Space populations societies, no. 2012/3 (July): 35–48.
      16. Kimmerle, Elisabeth. 2012. “Lost in Transition.” 14Magazin (?) 4. http://14magazin.de/ausgaben/ausgabe-4.
      17. Long, Katy. 2013. “In Search of Sanctuary: Border Closures, ‘Safe’ Zones and Refugee Protection.” Journal of Refugee Studies 26 (3): 458–76. doi:10.1093/jrs/fes050.
      18. Mamadouh, Virginie. 2012. “The Scaling of the ‘Invasion’: A Geopolitics of Immigration Narratives in France and The Netherlands.” Geopolitics 17 (2): 377–401. doi:10.1080/14650045.2011.578268.
      19. Messineo, Francesco. 2013. “Non-Refoulement Obligations in the Public International Law: Towards a New Protection Status?” In The Ashgate Research Companion to Migration Law, Theory and Policy, edited by Satvinder Singh Juss, 130–55. Farnham: Ashgate.
      20. Omonira-Oyekanmi, Rebecca. 2012. “Syrian Refugees ‘Turned Back from Greek Border by Police.’” The Guardian, December 7. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/07/syrian-refugees-turned-back-greek.
      21. “Passage Sur Le Refoulement À La Frontière Terrestre Gréco-Turque (Evros).”
      22. Reneman, Marcelle. 2013. “Speedy Asylum Procedures in the EU: Striking a Fair Balance Between the Need to Process Asylum Cases Efficiently and the Asylum Applicant’s EU Right to an Effective Remedy.” International Journal of Refugee Law 25 (4): 717–48.
      23. Schuster, Liza. 2011. “Turning Refugees into ‘illegal Migrants’: Afghan Asylum Seekers in Europe.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 34 (8): 1392–1407. doi:10.1080/01419870.2010.535550.
      24. Triandafyllidou, Anna, and Michaela Maroufof. 2009. “Immigration towards Greece at the Eve of the 21st Century. A Critical Assessment”. 4. IDEA. http://www.idea6fp.uw.edu.pl/pliki/WP4_Greece.pdf.
      25. Tsapopoulou, Katerina, Marianna Tzeferakou, and Salinia Stroux. 2012. “Human Cargo. Arbitrary Readmissions from the Italian Sea Ports to Greece.” www.gcr.gr/sites/default/files/humancargo.pdf.

      J’en ai probablement dans ma base de données un peu plus, mais il faudra que je l’épluche, là c’est en tout cas les articles dont je sais qu’on parle plus ou moins explicitement de #refoulements_illégaux_à_la_frontière