Vague de répression contre les migrants en Turquie : « J’envisage de retourner au Sénégal »
Des vidéos amateurs envoyées à notre rédaction montrent des migrants africains arrêtés par la police turque dans le cadre d’une campagne de répression de l’immigration clandestine. Sur ces images, envoyées par des migrants du Sénégal, du Cameroun, de Guinée et d’Angola, des officiers hurlent sur les migrants et, dans certains cas, les violentent physiquement. Nos Observateurs, dont l’une des victimes visible dans une #vidéo, racontent.
Les autorités turques ont lancé la répression au début du mois de juillet. Dans une interview publiée le 9 juillet, le ministre de l’intérieur, #Ali_Yerlikaya, a déclaré que la lutte contre l’immigration clandestine était l’une de ses priorités et que la #police d’Istanbul et des 81 provinces de Turquie intensifiait ses efforts pour arrêter et détenir les personnes se trouvant illégalement dans le pays.
À Istanbul, la police a ainsi entamé le 4 juillet une série d’opérations de #ratissage de soir et de nuit, en se concentrant sur les lieux de sorties et les #espaces_publics. Elle affirme avoir arrêté 3 535 personnes au cours de la première semaine, soupçonnées d’être entrées illégalement en Turquie, d’avoir travaillé sans autorisation ou d’avoir dépassé la durée de validité de leur visa.
Les vidéos envoyées à la rédaction des Observateurs par des migrants africains vivant en Turquie suggèrent un comportement violent de la part de la police.
Une vidéo envoyée par des migrants du Sénégal et de Guinée montre la police plaquant au sol un homme africain au milieu d’une foule. Les policiers ne portaient pas d’uniforme, mais des menottes. La victime a demandé son téléphone à plusieurs reprises, ce qui a mis en colère le policier qui le maintenait au sol. Le policier lui a crié dessus et l’a ensuite giflé.
Dans cette vidéo, envoyée par des migrants africains aux Observateurs de France 24 via WhatsApp et également postée sur Twitter, on voit le propriétaire d’un salon de coiffure sénégalais se faire gifler par un policier turc après avoir été arrêté pour un contrôle d’immigration. L’homme sénégalais a déclaré aux observateurs de France 24 que son permis de séjour était en cours de renouvellement.
L’incident a eu lieu à Istanbul le mercredi 19 juillet. En utilisant les images disponibles sur Google Maps, notre rédaction a pu déterminer que l’incident s’est produit à l’entrée du centre commercial souterrain. Plusieurs migrants subsahariens vivant à Istanbul ont confirmé l’endroit.
Le quartier environnant, Aksaray, regorge de magasins de vêtements et d’alimentaire tenus par des Africains.
"Chaque fois que des policiers me voient, ils me demandent mes papiers"
La rédaction des Observateurs a réussi à identifier et à contacter l’homme que l’on voit dans la vidéo : il s’agit de Mohamed Preira, un Sénégalais qui s’est installé en Turquie en 2019 et qui possède un salon de coiffure à Aksaray. Il déclare qu’il se rendait à son salon lorsqu’il a été arrêté par la police et avoir assuré aux agents ne pas avoir de permis de séjour sur lui parce qu’il était en cours de renouvellement.
Ils ont pris mon téléphone et mon argent. Ils m’ont mis dans une voiture et m’ont conduit à un endroit où ils m’ont laissé partir. Eux-mêmes savent qu’ils n’ont pas le droit de m’arrêter. Mais je ne peux même pas porter plainte contre eux.
J’ai déposé mes documents [pour renouveler mon statut de résident] et on m’a donné un reçu. Je suis en train d’obtenir les documents pour avoir le droit de vivre ici.
Ce n’est pas la première fois qu’on m’arrête. Chaque fois que des policiers me voient, ils me demandent mes papiers. Mais ces policiers étaient tout simplement racistes. Maintenant, tout mon corps me fait mal.
J’ai mon propre salon de coiffure à Istanbul. Je paie mon loyer. Mais la situation s’est aggravée, les contrôles sont de plus en plus nombreux. Maintenant, j’envisage de retourner au Sénégal. Vivre dans un autre pays, sans argent, c’est trop dur.
#Turkey is one of the countries where #refugees are most often subjected to violence, both by society and the authorities.
This video showing police violence was shared on social media yesterday.
In #Istanbul, a migrant-refugee from #Africa was beaten and detained by the police.… pic.twitter.com/l4S1UAh2Ld
— Vedat Yeler (@vedatyeler_) July 14, 2023
Notre rédaction a reçu de très nombreuses vidéos montrant l’usage de la force par la police. L’une de ces vidéos, également publiée sur Twitter, montre deux policiers en uniforme tenant un migrant africain tandis qu’un troisième policier peut être vu en train de lui pousser la tête vers le sol. Alors qu’ils l’éloignent, le troisième policier se moque apparemment de la victime en lui tapant dans la main.
Plusieurs migrants africains nous ont déclaré que l’incident avait eu lieu dans le quartier d’Esenyurt à Istanbul. L’imagerie satellite semble confirmer l’endroit, mais nous n’avons pas pu contacter l’homme qui a été arrêté.
"Nous avons été traités comme des criminels parce que nous n’avons pas les papiers qu’ils refusent de nous donner”
En novembre 2022, un rapport de Human Rights Watch estimait que les migrants détenus en Turquie sans papiers étaient souvent incarcérés dans des centres de détention surpeuplés, sans accès suffisant à une assistance juridique et à leurs familles.
"Cédric" (pseudonyme) un Camerounais qui a parlé à notre rédaction de France 24 sous couvert d’anonymat, a été arrêté à Istanbul en décembre 2022 alors qu’il attendait une mise à jour de son statut de résident :
Nous étions 12 à être détenus dans des chambres prévues pour six personnes. Nous étions censés avoir le droit de parler à nos familles, mais ils ont pris nos téléphones. Les conditions étaient horribles. J’ai vu beaucoup de suicides. Nous avons été traités comme des criminels parce que nous n’avions pas les papiers qu’ils refusaient de nous donner. Ils ne nous permettent pas d’avoir nos propres avocats. Ils ne vous laissent voir que leurs avocats.
“Cédric” raconte qu’il a été autorisé à quitter le centre au bout de deux mois et qu’on lui a remis un document qui l’autorisait uniquement à vivre à Bartin, une petite ville située à 400 km d’Istanbul. Mais il n’est pas resté : "Il n’y avait pas d’opportunités là-bas et les gens étaient racistes, alors je suis retourné à Istanbul” dit-il.
"Les migrants de toutes nationalités sont confrontés à de nombreuses violations des droits de l’Homme"
Contacté, Mahmut Kaçan, un avocat turc spécialisé dans les droits des migrants, affirme que le système d’immigration du pays est devenu plus restrictif au cours des deux dernières années.
Au cours des deux dernières années, les demandes d’asile n’ont pas été acceptées, que l’on soit un migrant régulier ou irrégulier. Ces dernières années, et pendant les élections [de mai 2023], il y a eu un débat. Le gouvernement actuel et l’opposition affirment qu’ils expulseront tous les réfugiés.
Les migrants de toutes nationalités sont confrontés à de nombreuses violations des droits de l’Homme. Je reçois des plaintes, mais comme ces migrants ne sont pas correctement enregistrés, ils ne sont pas en mesure de déposer des plaintes et de contacter des ONG.
▻https://observers.france24.com/fr/moyen-orient/20230721-turquie-migrants-violence-arrestations
#migrations #Turquie #répression #asile #réfugiés #racisme_anti-noirs #sans-papiers #rafles
]]>Alert: #Tunisia security forces abused & collectively expelled 20+ West/Central African nationals to a remote area at the Tunisia-#Libya border. (03.07.2023)
Includes a girl 16 yrs old, 2 pregnant women (1 in very bad condition), 2 registered asylum seekers. They need urgent help.
2/ Tunisian security forces beat the migrants, threw away their food, smashed their phones, & dropped them on the Libya side of the border, they said.
They fled back to the Tunisia side after encountering armed men. Spent the night in the desert. Still at risk.
▻https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0Hf8uoX0AE1oQU?format=jpg&name=medium
3/ Group includes people from Cameroon, Mali, Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire, Chad. 6 women, 1 girl, others men - in initial group.
Based on my last convo with them, more people may have been expelled overnight. They said 1 man has died - impossible to confirm for now but very worrisome
4/ These migrants & asylum seekers, including at least 1 child & 2 pregnant women (one ill & bleeding), are stranded in a closed, militarized Tunisia-Libya border zone.⚠️
We informed UN agencies but #Tunisia authorities have not yet granted access for them to help these people
5/ Update: just heard from the group of 20 expelled people at #Tunisia-#Libya border. Still stranded. They don’t know if other migrants have been expelled separately. They have no food, only eating when ppl passing by (those trying to cross border) give them bits of bread/water
6/ #Tunisia expulsions - another update: more migrants reportedly have now been expelled to #Libya border, in addition to the first group of 20. Seeking to verify info/details
7/ 🚨 Alert: over 100 more African migrants & asylum seekers expelled today by #Tunisia to #Libya border zone (Ben Gardane area). Includes at least 12 children ages 6 months to 5 yrs. This is in addition to the 20 expelled Sun, July 2. They gave permission for me to share videos
8/ #Tunisia expulsion of 100+ migrants to #Libya border: Since they gave permission to share, here is another video. This one taken by the 1st group - 20 ppl - expelled July 2 (they note the date in the vid). Shows they were forced to sleep overnight on the ground in the desert.
▻https://twitter.com/LozSeibert/status/1675865936853696512
#migrations #asile #réfugiés #Tunisie #Libye #frontières #désert #abandon #refoulements #désert
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En 2015:
Refugees left behind in Tunisia’s desert
►https://seenthis.net/messages/351913
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ajouté à la métaliste “Les ’#left-to-die' dans le désert du Sahara”:
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/796051#message1013185
ping @_kg_
Avril 2023
#Urgent! Two #Kurdish #refugees have reportedly been stranded in the buffer zone on the #Greek-#Turkish #border for three days. One of them is called Serhat Karadeniz, who communicated their situation to his family in #Turkey by phone. His father Hüseyin Karadaniz told me about the desperate situation of the two refugees. He also told me that the two refugees want to apply for asylum in #Greece, because they are fleeing political persecution in Turkey and would face political prison charges if they returned. Reportedly, the two refugees have been without food and water for three days and are experiencing health problems due to the cold. According to the last information, that the two Kurdish refugees are in the buffer zone in the Feres region, calling for urgent help from the Greek authorities and the United Nations to receive their asylum requests.
#limbe #zone_frontalière #île #Evros #asile #migrations #réfugiés #frontières #fleuve_Evros #Turquie #Grèce #Thrace #îlots
#nudité
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ajouté à la métaliste sur #métaliste sur des #réfugiés abandonnés sur des #îlots dans la région de l’#Evros, #frontière_terrestre entre la #Grèce et la #Turquie :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/953343
#Colonialism - the Origin of #Capitalism
▻https://diasp.eu/p/14334324
#Colonialism - the Origin of #Capitalism
The colonial mode of #production
Source: ▻https://yewtu.be/watch?v=jG1Dl97TmjQ Source: ▻https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=jG1Dl97TmjQ
A really interesting #video to show the connection between colonianism and today’s western #world. A colonianism that still exists despite today’s so popular welcome greetings for #refugees. Here African people come up to describe the #history from an African point of view.
The first half hour is a short introduction to the topic. The next few minutes are more detailed explanations.
#Uhuru #Movement : ▻https://apspuhuru.org
#International #African #Revolution #NATO (...)
]]>#métaliste sur des #réfugiés abandonnés sur des #îlots dans la région de l’#Evros, #frontière_terrestre entre la #Grèce et la #Turquie
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Et la #dispute_territoriale entre les 2 pays :
à qui appartiennent ces îlots ?
#Thrace #limbe #zone_frontalière #île #asile #migrations #frontières #fleuve_Evros
]]>The protectors of refugee children
They are probably the first and only doctors to examine young #refugees who arrive in #Athens. The pediatricians Stavroula Dikalioti and Smaragda Papachristidou - due to their efforts and personal interest - have managed to facilitate the refugees’ access to #public_health, which is provided at no cost, but remains a complicated maze to navigate.
Before the journey, they get tattoos as a way to identify their bodies in case they die on the way.
#greece #health #migration #borders #Europe
▻https://wearesolomon.com/mag/on-the-move/the-protectors-of-refugee-children
]]>Inside new refugee camp like a ‘prison’: Greece and other countries prioritize surveillance over human rights
On the Greek island of Samos you can swim in the same sea where refugees are drowning. The sandy beaches and rolling hills, coloured by an Aegean sunset hide a humanitarian emergency that is symptomatic of a global turn against migration.
#Greece is just one of the many locations across the world where technological experimentation at the #border is given free reign. Our ongoing work at the #Refugee Law Lab attempts to weave together the tapestry of the increasingly powerful and global border industrial complex which legitimizes technosolutionism at the expense of human rights and dignity.
These technological experiments don’t occur in a vacuum. Powerful state interests and the private sector increasingly set the stage for what technology is developed and deployed, while communities experiencing the sharp edges of these innovations are consistently left out of the discussion.
Policy makers are increasingly choosing #drones over humanitarian policies, with states prioritizing #security and #surveillance over human rights.
#refugees #borders #samos #camp #Europe #pushbacks #migration #human_rights
▻https://theconversation.com/inside-new-refugee-camp-like-a-prison-greece-and-other-countries-pr
]]>Ambassador in limbo makes plea for Afghans to be allowed into EU
Former Afghan government’s ambassador in Greece appalled by Athens’ media blitz against ‘illegal migrant flows’
The centre-right government of the prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, unveiled the EU-funded initiative, saying its goal was “to make clear that Greece guards its borders in an organised way and does not allow illegal migration flows”.
Amid fears of the country again becoming the gateway for thousands of Europe-bound refugees desperate to escape the excesses of Islamist hardliners still seeking international legitimacy, the Greek migration ministry admitted the move had been prompted by “the latest geopolitical developments in Afghanistan”.
Under the campaign, mainstream Afghan newspapers and social media will be targeted in what officials have called a blitzkrieg of messaging aimed at dissuading Afghans from paying smugglers to help them flee.
Platforms including YouTube will be employed, with videos reportedly being prepared to convey the unvarnished reality of what awaits people if they succeed in reaching Greece through irregular means. This week asylum seekers on Samos were moved into a “closed” and highly fortified reception centre – the first of five EU-funded facilities on Aegean isles – that is encircled by military-style fencing and equipped with magnetic gates more resonant of a prison than a migrant camp, NGOs say.
#migration #Greece #Afghanistan #Taliban #refugees #borders #camps #asylum
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/27/ambassador-in-limbo-makes-plea-for-afghans-to-be-allowed-into-eu
]]>The refugees crescent in 2014
▻https://visionscarto.net/the-refugees-crescent
Title: The refugees crescent (2017 revision) Keywords: #War #Conflicts #Borders #Refugees #United_Nations #Human_rights #Asylum #Asylum_seekers #Peace Sources: United Nations High Commissionner for Refugees (UNHCR); United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA); United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA); Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC); Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC); United States Center for (...) #Map_collection
]]>Asyl im Dialog - der #Podcast der #Refugee_Law_Clinics Deutschland
Episonden
Flucht und Behinderung
70 Jahre Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention
Rechtswidrige Hausordnungen für Geflüchtete
Wieso Menschen aus Eritrea fiehen
Somalia - Frauen* auf der Flucht
Alarmphone statt Küstenwache
Warum Afghanistan nicht sicher ist
Brutalität und Menschenrechte auf der Balkanroute
Solidarität kindgerecht: Eine Wiese für alle
Wenn der Klimanwandel zum Fluchtgrund wird
Migrationssteuerung durch die EU in Westafrika
Abschottung reloaded - die Zukunft der Hotspots durch den Nwe
Pact der EU
FRONTEX - Grenzschutz außer Kontrolle
Flucht und Trauma
Das Asylrecht aus Sicht eines Verwaltungsrichters
Wenn JUMEN e.V. Familiennachzug durch strategische
Prozessführung erkämpft
Wieso das AsybLG ein Gestz für Menschen zweiter Klasse ist
Wie hängen Flucht und Menschenhandel zusammen? Wie die EU ihre
Verpflichtung zur Seenotrettung umgeht
Die Härtefallkommission als Gandeninstanz
Haft ohne Straftat - aus der Praxis einer Abschiebehaft
Entrechtung von Geduldeten -die neue Duldung light
Die griechischen Hospots
Das Kirchenasyl als ultima ratio
Zuständigkeiten im Asylverfahren
Gestzgebung im Asylrecht seit 2015 - rechtsiwedrig und populistisch?
Was machen Refugee Law Clinics?
#podcast #audio #RLC #Germany #migration #refugees #EU #Frontex #migration_law #Duldung #trauma #gender #women* #handicap #children #family #asylum #Balkans #church_asylum #Greece #hotspot #Alarmphone #human_rights #Eritrea #Afghanistan
ping @cdb_77
►https://www.podcast.de/podcast/778497/asyl-im-dialog-der-podcast-der-refugee-law-clinics-deutschland
Greece, ABR: The Greek government are building walls around the five mainland refugee camps
The Greek government are building walls around the five mainland refugee camps, #Ritsona, #Polykastro, #Diavata, #Makakasa and #Nea_Kavala. Why this is necessary, and for what purpose, when the camps already are fenced in with barbed wire fences, is difficult to understand.
“Closed controlled camps" ensuring that asylum seekers are cut off from the outside communities and services. A very dark period in Greece and in EU refugee Policy.
Three meter high concrete walls, outside the already existing barbed wire fences, would makes this no different than a prison. Who are they claiming to protect with these extreme measures, refugees living inside from Greek right wing extremists, or people living outside from these “dangerous” men, women and children? We must remember that this is supposed to be a refugee camps, not high security prisons.
EU agreed on financing these camps, on the condition that they should be open facilities, same goes for the new camps that are being constructed on the island. In reality people will be locked up in these prisons most of the day, only allowed to go out on specific times, under strict control, between 07.00-19.00. Remember that we are talking about families with children, and not criminals, so why are they being treated as such?
While Greece are opening up, welcoming tourists from all over the world, they are locking up men, women and children seeking safety in Europe, in prisons behind barbed wire fences and concrete walls, out of sight, out of mind. When these new camps on the islands, financed by Europe are finished, they will also be fenced in by high concrete walls. Mark my words: nothing good will come of this!
“From Malakasa, Nea Kavala, Polycastro and Diavata camps to the world!!
“if you have find us silent against the walls,it doesn’t mean that we agree to live like prisoners,but in fact we are all afraid to be threaten,if we speak out and raise our voices!!”
(▻https://twitter.com/parwana_amiri/status/1395593312460025858)
▻https://www.facebook.com/AegeanBoatReport/posts/1088971624959274
#murs #asile #migrations #réfugiés #camps_de_réfugiés #Grèce #camps_fermés #barbelés
]]>Glasgow protesters rejoice as men freed after immigration van standoff
Hundreds of people surrounded vehicle men were held in and chanted ‘these are our neighbours, let them go’
Campaigners have hailed a victory for Glaswegian solidarity and told the Home Office “you messed with the wrong city” as two men detained by UK Immigration Enforcement were released back into their community after a day of protest.
Police Scotland intervened to free the men after a tense day-long standoff between immigration officials and hundreds of local residents, who surrounded their van in a residential street on the southside of Glasgow to stop the detention of the men during Eid al-Fitr.
Staff from Immigration Enforcement are believed to have swooped on a property in Pollokshields early on Thursday morning and detained people.
By mid-morning, a crowd of about 200 protesters surrounded the vehicle, preventing it from driving away, and chanting “these are our neighbours, let them go”, with one protester lying under the van to prevent it driving off.
“I’m just overwhelmed by Glasgow’s solidarity for refugees and asylum seekers,” said Roza Salih, shouting to be heard over the jubilant shouts of “refugees are welcome here”. She added: “This is a victory for the community.”
Salih, who had been at the protest since the morning, is a Kurdish refugee and co-founded the #Glasgow_Girls_campaign in 2005 with fellow pupils to prevent the deportation of a school friend and fight against dawn raids.
Earlier Salih questioned why the widely condemned practice of dawn raids appeared to be recurring 15 years later in Glasgow , the only dispersal city for asylum seekers in Scotland. She also highlighted the jarring impact of carrying out such an action during Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim festival marking the end of Ramadan, in one of the most multicultural areas of the city and within the constituency of the first minister, Nicola Sturgeon.
As cheering protesters escorted the men to the local mosque, Pinar Aksu, of Maryhill Integration Network said: “They messed with the wrong city.
“This is a revolution of people coming together in solidarity for those who others have turned away from,” she said. Aksu described how hundreds more supporters had arrived at the scene as the afternoon progressed. “This is just the start. When there is another dawn #raid in Glasgow, the same thing will happen.”
Aksu added: “For this to happen on Eid, which is meant to be a time of peaceful celebration, is horrifying. It is no coincidence that it is taking place when a new immigration bill is being prepared.
“We also need answers from Police Scotland about their involvement. We have already written to the home secretary asking urgently to clarify whether the decisions to carry out immigration enforcement raids, including dawn raids, represents a change in the policy by the UK government.”
Shortly after 5pm, Police Scotland released an updated statement, saying that Supt Mark Sutherland had decided to release the detained men “in order to protect the safety, public health and wellbeing of those involved in the detention and subsequent protest”. The force asked those at the scene to disperse from the area as soon as possible.
A spokesperson said earlier: “Police Scotland does not assist in the removal of asylum seekers. Officers are at the scene to police the protest and to ensure public safety.”
The second dawn raid in Glasgow within a month appears to show a further escalation of the UK’s hostile environment policy. While the SNP government has argued strongly for Scotland to have control over its own immigration policy, not least because of the country’s unique depopulation pressures, it remains reserved to Westminster.
Sources told the Guardian the immigration status of the individuals detained was unclear.
The protests took place as new MSPs were sworn in to what has been described as Holyrood’s most diverse ever parliament, taking their oaths in British Sign Language, Arabic, Urdu, Punjabi, Doric, Scots, Gaelic, Welsh and Orcadian, and after an election in which refugees had voting rights for the first time in Scotland.
Politicians expressed their solidarity with the residents on social media.
Following the men’s release, #Nicola_Sturgeon tweeted: “I am proud to represent a constituency and lead a country that welcomes and shows support to asylum seekers and refugees.”
She added that the police had been “in an invidious position – they do not assist in the removal of asylum seekers but do have a duty to protect public safety. They act independently of ministers, but I support this decision.”
Condemning the Home Office action, #Sturgeon added: “To act in this way, in the heart of a Muslim community as they celebrated Eid, and in an area experiencing a Covid outbreak was a health and safety risk.
“Both as MSP and as FM, I will be demanding assurances from the UK government that they will never again create, through their actions, such a dangerous situation.”
Wafa Shaheen, of the Scottish Refugee Council, told the Guardian: “To force people from their homes on the first day of Eid, with neighbours and families trying to honour the religious celebration in peace, shows – at best – a serious lack of cultural sensitivity and awareness on the Home Office’s part.
“Regardless of the immigration status of those targeted today, this heavy-handed approach from the Home Office is unnecessary and avoidable. It is frightening, intimidating and disproportionate. The hundreds of people on the streets this morning in solidarity with those affected shows people in Scotland are sick of these raids and have had enough.”
A Home Office spokesperson said: “The UK government is tackling illegal immigration and the harm it causes, often to the most vulnerable people, by removing those with no right to be in the UK. The operation in Glasgow was conducted in relation to suspected immigration offences and the two Indian nationals complied with officers at all times.”
▻https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/13/glasgow-residents-surround-and-block-immigration-van-from-leaving-stree
#Glasgow #Ecosse #solidarité #réfugiés #asile #migrations #résistance #refugees_welcome
Concrete walls are being erected in mainland #Refugeesgr camps, #Diavata, #Malakassa, #Ritsona, & #Nea_Kavala
“closed controlled camps” ensuring #Asylumseekers are cut off from outside communities & services.
▻https://twitter.com/EleniKonstanto/status/1388934268504715265
#murs #camps_de_réfugiés #réfugiés #Grèce #asile #migrations #barrières #murs_intra-urbains
Thousands of #refugees in #mental_health crisis after years on #Greek islands
One in three on Aegean isles have contemplated suicide amid EU containment policies, report reveals
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Years of entrapment on Aegean islands has resulted in a mental health crisis for thousands of refugees, with one in three contemplating suicide, a report compiled by psychosocial support experts has revealed.
Containment policies pursued by the EU have also spurred ever more people to attempt to end their lives, according to the report released by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) on Thursday.
“Research reveals consistent accounts of severe mental health conditions,” says the report, citing data collated over the past two and a half years on Lesbos, Samos and Chios.
Depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and self-harm “among people of all ages and backgrounds” have emerged as byproducts of the hopelessness and despair on Europe’s eastern borderlands, it says.
“As many as three out of four of the people the IRC has assisted through its mental health programme on the three islands reported experiencing symptoms such as sleeping problems, depression and anxiety,” its authors wrote.
“One in three reported suicidal thoughts, while one in five reported having made attempts to take their lives.”
In a year upended by coronavirus and disastrous fires on Lesbos – about 13,000 asylum seekers were temporarily displaced after the destruction of Moria, the island’s infamous holding centre – psychologists concluded that the humanitarian situation on the outposts had worsened considerably.
The mental health toll had been aggravated by lockdown measures that had kept men, women and children confined to facilities for much of 2020, they said.
Previously, residents in Moria, Europe’s biggest refugee camp before its destruction, had participated in football games outside the facility and other group activities.
Noting that the restrictions were stricter for refugees and migrants than those applied elsewhere in Greece, IRC support teams found a marked deterioration in the mental wellbeing of people in the camps since rolling lockdowns were enforced in March.
“Research demonstrates how the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic further exacerbated the suffering of already vulnerable asylum seekers and exposed the many flaws in Europe’s asylum and reception system,” the report says.
Over the year there has been a rise in the proportion of people disclosing psychotic symptoms, from one in seven to one in four. Disclosures of self-harm have increased by 66%.
The IRC, founded by Albert Einstein in 1933 and now led by the former British foreign secretary David Miliband, said the findings offered more evidence of the persistent political and policy failures at Greek and EU level.
Five years after authorities scrambled to establish reception and identification centres, or hotspots, on the frontline isles at the start of the refugee crisis, about 15,000 men, women and children remain stranded in the installations.
Describing conditions in the camps as dangerous and inhumane, the IRC said residents were still denied access to sufficient water, sanitation, shelter and vital services such as healthcare, education and legal assistance to process asylum claims.
On Lesbos, the island most often targeted by traffickers working along the Turkish coast, government figures this week showed an estimated 7,319 men, women and children registered in a temporary camp erected in response to an emergency that has been blamed on arsonists.
Three months after the fires, more than 5,000 people have been transferred to the mainland, according to Greek authorities.
Of that number, more than 800 were relocated to the EU, including 523 children who had made the journey to Europe alone and were also held in Moria.
Many had hoped the new camp would be a vast improvement on Moria, whose appalling conditions and severe overcrowding earned it global notoriety as a humanitarian disaster.
But the new facility, located on a former firing range within metres of the sea, has drawn condemnation from locals and NGOs.
“The winds hit it, the rains hit it and there’s no shade, which is why this place is unsuitable for any camp to be,” the island’s mayor, Stratis Kitilis, said.
“It’s right next door to all the warehouses, transport companies and supermarkets that keep Lesbos going. No one wants it there.”
This month the EU announced it was working with Athens’ centre-right administration to replace the installation with a modern structure that will open next September. New reception and identification centres will also be built on Samos, Kos and Lesbos. “They say it’ll be nothing like Moria and will be more of a transfer stop, but late next year is a very long time,” said Kitilis.
Kiki Michailidou, the psychologist in charge of the IRC’s psychosocial support programmes on Lesbos, agreed that the conditions were far from dignified.
As winter approached, camp residents were resorting to ever more desperate measures to keep warm, she said, while also being forced to stand in long queues for food and communal toilets.
With camp managers moving families into giant tents, social distancing remains elusive. “A lot of people fear the unknown again,” Michailidou said.
“Moria was terrible but it was also a familiar place, somewhere they called their home. After the fires they lost their point of reference and that has had a significant impact on their mental health too.”
The IRC report calls for European policymakers to learn from past failings. While the EU’s new pact on asylum and migration is a step in the right direction, it says, it still falls short of the bloc managing migration in a humane and effective way.
Echoing that sentiment, Michailidou said: “After the fires we saw what could happen. There were transfers to the mainland and children were relocated to other parts of Europe. That’s proof that where there’s political will and coordinated action, the lives of people in these camps can be transformed.”
#suicide #island #migration #EU
►https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/dec/17/thousands-refugees-mental-crisis-years-greek-islands
]]>Giorgos Tsiakalos: “In Europe, a racist policy is being implemented”
EU policy can rightly be called “Black lives don’t matter in the Mediterranean”
In June 2020, recognized refugee families, most of which had just arrived in Athens from the Moria camp on the island of Lesvos, were unable to find housing and remained homeless for days, sleeping in Athens’ Victoria Square. June 1, 2020, marked the implementation of the Greek law which terminates the provision of shelter for 11,237 refugees and beneficiaries via the ESTIA housing program.
“They arrived at Victoria Square, as others had come before them about five years ago. Back then we had said we were caught off guard. Now what do we say? I was there today”, wrote George Tsiakalos, Professor of Pedagogy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in a Facebook post dated June 14.
George Tsiakalos, along with his wife, Sigrid Maria Muschik, have been providing support to these families not only in recent months, but continuously − since the early days of what became known as the “refugee crisis”.
▻https://wearesolomon.com/mag/q-and-a/giorgos-tsiakalos-in-europe-a-racist-policy-is-being-implemented/?mc_cid=a5016dd865&mc_eid=3444239cea
#greece #refugees #migrants #Moria #camps #Europe #Migration #borders #housing
]]>Refugee protection at risk
Two of the words that we should try to avoid when writing about refugees are “unprecedented” and “crisis.” They are used far too often and with far too little thought by many people working in the humanitarian sector. Even so, and without using those words, there is evidence to suggest that the risks confronting refugees are perhaps greater today than at any other time in the past three decades.
First, as the UN Secretary-General has pointed out on many occasions, we are currently witnessing a failure of global governance. When Antonio Guterres took office in 2017, he promised to launch what he called “a surge in diplomacy for peace.” But over the past three years, the UN Security Council has become increasingly dysfunctional and deadlocked, and as a result is unable to play its intended role of preventing the armed conflicts that force people to leave their homes and seek refuge elsewhere. Nor can the Security Council bring such conflicts to an end, thereby allowing refugees to return to their country of origin.
It is alarming to note, for example, that four of the five Permanent Members of that body, which has a mandate to uphold international peace and security, have been militarily involved in the Syrian armed conflict, a war that has displaced more people than any other in recent years. Similarly, and largely as a result of the blocking tactics employed by Russia and the US, the Secretary-General struggled to get Security Council backing for a global ceasefire that would support the international community’s efforts to fight the Coronavirus pandemic
Second, the humanitarian principles that are supposed to regulate the behavior of states and other parties to armed conflicts, thereby minimizing the harm done to civilian populations, are under attack from a variety of different actors. In countries such as Burkina Faso, Iraq, Nigeria and Somalia, those principles have been flouted by extremist groups who make deliberate use of death and destruction to displace populations and extend the areas under their control.
In states such as Myanmar and Syria, the armed forces have acted without any kind of constraint, persecuting and expelling anyone who is deemed to be insufficiently loyal to the regime or who come from an unwanted part of society. And in Central America, violent gangs and ruthless cartels are acting with growing impunity, making life so hazardous for other citizens that they feel obliged to move and look for safety elsewhere.
Third, there is mounting evidence to suggest that governments are prepared to disregard international refugee law and have a respect a declining commitment to the principle of asylum. It is now common practice for states to refuse entry to refugees, whether by building new walls, deploying military and militia forces, or intercepting and returning asylum seekers who are travelling by sea.
In the Global North, the refugee policies of the industrialized increasingly take the form of ‘externalization’, whereby the task of obstructing the movement of refugees is outsourced to transit states in the Global South. The EU has been especially active in the use of this strategy, forging dodgy deals with countries such as Libya, Niger, Sudan and Turkey. Similarly, the US has increasingly sought to contain northward-bound refugees in Mexico, and to return asylum seekers there should they succeed in reaching America’s southern border.
In developing countries themselves, where some 85 per cent of the world’s refugees are to be found, governments are increasingly prepared to flout the principle that refugee repatriation should only take place in a voluntary manner. While they rarely use overt force to induce premature returns, they have many other tools at their disposal: confining refugees to inhospitable camps, limiting the food that they receive, denying them access to the internet, and placing restrictions on humanitarian organizations that are trying to meet their needs.
Fourth, the COVID-19 pandemic of the past nine months constitutes a very direct threat to the lives of refugees, and at the same time seems certain to divert scarce resources from other humanitarian programmes, including those that support displaced people. The Coronavirus has also provided a very convenient alibi for governments that wish to close their borders to people who are seeking safety on their territory.
Responding to this problem, UNHCR has provided governments with recommendations as to how they might uphold the principle of asylum while managing their borders effectively and minimizing any health risks associated with the cross-border movement of people. But it does not seem likely that states will be ready to adopt such an approach, and will prefer instead to introduce more restrictive refugee and migration policies.
Even if the virus is brought under some kind of control, it may prove difficult to convince states to remove the restrictions that they have introduced during the COVD-19 emergency. And the likelihood of that outcome is reinforced by the fear that the climate crisis will in the years to come prompt very large numbers of people to look for a future beyond the borders of their own state.
Fifth, the state-based international refugee regime does not appear well placed to resist these negative trends. At the broadest level, the very notions of multilateralism, international cooperation and the rule of law are being challenged by a variety of powerful states in different parts of the world: Brazil, China, Russia, Turkey and the USA, to name just five. Such countries also share a common disdain for human rights and the protection of minorities – indigenous people, Uyghur Muslims, members of the LGBT community, the Kurds and African-Americans respectively.
The USA, which has traditionally acted as a mainstay of the international refugee regime, has in recent years set a particularly negative example to the rest of the world by slashing its refugee resettlement quota, by making it increasingly difficult for asylum seekers to claim refugee status on American territory, by entirely defunding the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency and by refusing to endorse the Global Compact on Refugees. Indeed, while many commentators predicted that the election of President Trump would not be good news for refugees, the speed at which he has dismantled America’s commitment to the refugee regime has taken many by surprise.
In this toxic international environment, UNHCR appears to have become an increasingly self-protective organization, as indicated by the enormous amount of effort it devotes to marketing, branding and celebrity endorsement. For reasons that remain somewhat unclear, rather than stressing its internationally recognized mandate for refugee protection and solutions, UNHCR increasingly presents itself as an all-purpose humanitarian agency, delivering emergency assistance to many different groups of needy people, both outside and within their own country. Perhaps this relief-oriented approach is thought to win the favour of the organization’s key donors, an impression reinforced by the cautious tone of the advocacy that UNHCR undertakes in relation to the restrictive asylum policies of the EU and USA.
UNHCR has, to its credit, made a concerted effort to revitalize the international refugee regime, most notably through the Global Compact on Refugees, the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework and the Global Refugee Forum. But will these initiatives really have the ‘game-changing’ impact that UNHCR has prematurely attributed to them?
The Global Compact on Refugees, for example, has a number of important limitations. It is non-binding and does not impose any specific obligations on the countries that have endorsed it, especially in the domain of responsibility-sharing. The Compact makes numerous references to the need for long-term and developmental approaches to the refugee problem that also bring benefits to host states and communities. But it is much more reticent on fundamental protection principles such as the right to seek asylum and the notion of non-refoulement. The Compact also makes hardly any reference to the issue of internal displacement, despite the fact that there are twice as many IDPs as there are refugees under UNHCR’s mandate.
So far, the picture painted by this article has been unremittingly bleak. But just as one can identify five very negative trends in relation to refugee protection, a similar number of positive developments also warrant recognition.
First, the refugee policies pursued by states are not uniformly bad. Countries such as Canada, Germany and Uganda, for example, have all contributed, in their own way, to the task of providing refugees with the security that they need and the rights to which they are entitled. In their initial stages at least, the countries of South America and the Middle East responded very generously to the massive movements of refugees out of Venezuela and Syria.
And while some analysts, including the current author, have felt that there was a very real risk of large-scale refugee expulsions from countries such as Bangladesh, Kenya and Lebanon, those fears have so far proved to be unfounded. While there is certainly a need for abusive states to be named and shamed, recognition should also be given to those that seek to uphold the principles of refugee protection.
Second, the humanitarian response to refugee situations has become steadily more effective and equitable. Twenty years ago, it was the norm for refugees to be confined to camps, dependent on the distribution of food and other emergency relief items and unable to establish their own livelihoods. Today, it is far more common for refugees to be found in cities, towns or informal settlements, earning their own living and/or receiving support in the more useful, dignified and efficient form of cash transfers. Much greater attention is now given to the issues of age, gender and diversity in refugee contexts, and there is a growing recognition of the role that locally-based and refugee-led organizations can play in humanitarian programmes.
Third, after decades of discussion, recent years have witnessed a much greater engagement with refugee and displacement issues by development and financial actors, especially the World Bank. While there are certainly some risks associated with this engagement (namely a lack of attention to protection issues and an excessive focus on market-led solutions) a more developmental approach promises to allow better long-term planning for refugee populations, while also addressing more systematically the needs of host populations.
Fourth, there has been a surge of civil society interest in the refugee issue, compensating to some extent for the failings of states and the large international humanitarian agencies. Volunteer groups, for example, have played a critical role in responding to the refugee situation in the Mediterranean. The Refugees Welcome movement, a largely spontaneous and unstructured phenomenon, has captured the attention and allegiance of many people, especially but not exclusively the younger generation.
And as has been seen in the UK this year, when governments attempt to demonize refugees, question their need for protection and violate their rights, there are many concerned citizens, community associations, solidarity groups and faith-based organizations that are ready to make their voice heard. Indeed, while the national asylum policies pursued by the UK and other countries have been deeply disappointing, local activism on behalf of refugees has never been stronger.
Finally, recent events in the Middle East, the Mediterranean and Europe have raised the question as to whether refugees could be spared the trauma and hardship of making dangerous journeys from one country and continent to another by providing them with safe and legal routes. These might include initiatives such as Canada’s community-sponsored refugee resettlement programme, the ‘humanitarian corridors’ programme established by the Italian churches, family reunion projects of the type championed in the UK and France by Lord Alf Dubs, and the notion of labour mobility programmes for skilled refugee such as that promoted by the NGO Talent Beyond Boundaries.
Such initiatives do not provide a panacea to the refugee issue, and in their early stages at least, might not provide a solution for large numbers of displaced people. But in a world where refugee protection is at such serious risk, they deserve our full support.
▻http://www.against-inhumanity.org/2020/09/08/refugee-protection-at-risk
#réfugiés #asile #migrations #protection #Jeff_Crisp #crise #crise_migratoire #crise_des_réfugiés #gouvernance #gouvernance_globale #paix #Nations_unies #ONU #conflits #guerres #conseil_de_sécurité #principes_humanitaires #géopolitique #externalisation #sanctuarisation #rapatriement #covid-19 #coronavirus #frontières #fermeture_des_frontières #liberté_de_mouvement #liberté_de_circulation #droits_humains #Global_Compact_on_Refugees #Comprehensive_Refugee_Response_Framework #Global_Refugee_Forum #camps_de_réfugiés #urban_refugees #réfugiés_urbains #banque_mondiale #société_civile #refugees_welcome #solidarité #voies_légales #corridors_humanitaires #Talent_Beyond_Boundaries #Alf_Dubs
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ping @karine4 @thomas_lacroix @_kg_ @rhoumour
–—
Ajouté à la métaliste sur le global compact :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/739556
#Metalist #mental_health and #international migration
Metalist cover picture : ’I’m like a mouse in a trap’ : trauma of Europe’s refugees – in pictures (source below)
Et vidéo d’introduction :
Ouvrir sa porte à l’inconnu. Récit d’une solidarité ordinaire | Julia Montfort | TEDxParis
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNC4C4OqomI&feature=emb_logo
]]>Knowledge is power.#Refugees in Tanzania’s Nduta camp are learning about #COVID19 and how to stay safe #coronavirus
Nduta camp in northwest Tanzania is home to 75,000 refugees from Burundi. Steps setting out how to protect against COVID-19 are displayed on noticeboards.
►https://www.unhcr.org/news/stories/2020/4/5e79e2410/live-blog-refugees-covid-19-crisis.html
#Covid-19#Migration#Migrant#Tanzanie#Burundi#Réfugiés
A call by concerned researchers for immediate action and radical revision of current EU policies on mobility and migration governance- Observatory of the refugee and migration crisis in the Aegan
#EUPolicies#Migration#Refugees#MerEgée#Turquie
▻https://refugeeobservatory.aegean.gr/en/call-concerned-researchers-immediate-action-and-radical-re
]]>GREECE REFLECTION: Poems from the Brink of Despair; powerful voices of refugees in detention of Moria
In Moria, refugees are proud to be sick.
I broke my arm to get a medical certificate.
If you have been tortured you can sell yourself as vulnerable.
Being mentally ill is the price to pay for safe passage.
It’s easier for a sinner to enter paradise
than for a refugee to get asylum in Greece.
Why do you, all the guilty ones,
Want to teach us lessons in morality?
You prevent us from being happy.
Us, the brave ones.
#moria #lesbos #greece #refugees #migrants #migrations #réfugiés #Grèce
▻https://www.cpt.org/cptnet/2017/08/15/greece-reflection-poems-brink-despair-powerful-voices-refugees-detention-moria
]]>Refugees trapped on the Aegean islands in the last twelve months
The number of #refugees stranded on the #Aegean islands has tripled in the past twelve months and reached over 42000.
▻https://twitter.com/rspaegean/status/1215012479891333120
#statistiques #chiffres #îles #île #Grèce #hotspot #2019 #asile #migrations #réfugiés
]]>Métaliste
Les « #left-to-die in the Sahara desert »...
(évidente référence à un rapport de Charles Heller et Lorenzo Pezzani sur le Left-to-die boat : ►https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/the-left-to-die-boat)
Essai de #métaliste sur les expulsions de migrants depuis les pays du #Maghreb (#Tunisie et #Algérie pour le moment) vers leur frontières méridionales, soit en plein #désert...
#asile #migrations #réfugiés #abandon #expulsions #renvois #déportation
ping @isskein @_kg_ @visionscarto @pascaline @karine4
“Migration has always been with us,” says Yalcin. “It’s not a probl...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/9251001
“Migration has always been with us,” says Yalcin. “It’s not a problem to be solved but a reality you have to manage. You should see the advantages. And you need to tell people the truth: these people are not stealing your jobs, they’re not stealing your houses.”
▻https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/19/gaziantep-turkish-city-successfully-absorbed-half-a-million-migrants-fr
]]>[Aujourd’hui c’est la] journée mondiale des réfugiés, pour célébrer l’indigne.
« ... je ne peux m’empêcher de penser que cette journée décrétée en 2000 par une résolution de l’ONU /.../ amène à une célébration de mauvais goût lorsque l’on constate le durcissement de la politique migratoire en France et partout dans le monde. »
Plus de 65 millions de personnes vivent loin de chez eux, un réfugié sur deux serait un enfant, un grand nombre de ces personnes vivent dans des pays frontaliers aux leurs et ne pourront jamais parvenir aux portes de l’Europe. En France, l’année dernière, seulement 46 000 personnes ont trouvé protection en France, mineurs isolés compris. Je ne suis pas très bonne en maths, mais je crois qu’on est loin de l’envahissement rabâché par les politiques.
Barbara Allix, juriste, spécialiste du droit des étrangers, signe l’edito d’un Bondy Blog spécialement consacré au sujet : ▻https://www.bondyblog.fr/opinions/billet-dhumeur/une-journee-mondiale-des-refugies-histoire-de-celebrer-lindigne
#JournéeMondialeDesRéfugiés #RefugeesDay #RefugeesWelcome
Les chiffres qui démontrent les manipulations d’opinion ont beau être têtus année après année, rien ne semble y faire. Pourtant, il faut essayer, encore et encore, de les rendre plus visibles pour que cesse le carnage :
« Immigration : les chiffres des réfugiés en Europe depuis 60 ans pour en finir avec les fantasmes »
“L’implicite du discours sur la crise sans précédent aujourd’hui, c’est que l’on a pour la première fois des demandes d’asiles et des flux de réfugiés massifs qui proviennent de l’extérieur de l’Europe et qui sont très peu lisibles. Il y a peu de défenseurs de leur cause dans la société française et européenne”.
▻https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/entry/immigration-les-chiffres-des-refugies-en-europe-depuis-60-ans-pour-en
Nous avons choisi d’utiliser les données du Haut Commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés, qui répertorie les réfugiés et demandeurs d’asile partout dans le monde depuis plus de 60 ans. Le graphique dans la vidéo représente les demandeurs d’asiles et réfugiés par pays d’accueil européen.
▻https://youtu.be/3cceg9Lx1JU
#migrations #migrants #exils #refugiés #frontieres #meurtrepardestination #refugeeswelcome
]]>Kleine Information zur anstehenden #Europawahl. In der »Erklärung v...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/9085386
Kleine Information zur anstehenden #Europawahl. In der »Erklärung von Malta« wurde von den EU-Regierungschefs übrigens 2017 beschlossen, bei Entwicklungshilfe künftig generell »auf durchgängige Berücksichtigung von Migrationsfragen« hinzuwirken. ►http://menschenrechte.proasyl.de pic.twitter.com/ysHleokoOW
Kleine Information zur anstehenden #Europawahl.twitter-hashtag .pretty-link .js-nav. In der »Erklärung von Malta« wurde von den EU-Regierungschefs übrigens 2017 beschlossen, bei Entwicklungshilfe künftig generell »auf durchgängige Berücksichtigung von Migrationsfragen« hinzuwirken. ►http://menschenrechte.proasyl.de pic.twitter.com/ysHleokoOW.twitter-timeline-link .u-hidden
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▻https://twitter.com/ProAsyl/status/1130842348940857344 #asyl #asylpolitik #proasyl #deutschland #flüchtlinge #refugees (...)
]]>Ca continue...
Ils bloquent la gendarmerie pour s’opposer à l’expulsion d’un Guinéen
Le Dauphiné, le 26 avril 2019
▻https://www.ledauphine.com/ardeche/2019/04/26/ils-bloquent-la-gendarmerie-pour-s-opposer-a-l-expulsion-d-un-guineen
Ca rappelle cette histoire :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/710997
#Expulsions #France #Résistance #Solidarité #Ardèche #accueil #refugiés_bienvenue #refugees_welcome #Détention_Administrative #OQTF
]]>Mediterraneo
#tourisme #Méditerranée #mourir_en_mer #mer_Méditerranée #cimetière #dessin #caricature #dessin_de_presse #morts #décès #collision #migrations
En citant @reka :
Petit #crash de deux mondes qui n’auraient jamais dû se rencontrer.
source : ►https://visionscarto.net/la-mediterranee-plus-loin
v. aussi mon billet sur @visionscarto sur le campement à #Côme :
Touristes et migrants : collision en gare de Côme
Fil de discussion devenu une sorte de #métaliste...
Attacks on #refugees in #Greece continue :
The Alarm Phone was contacted today by a group of people that was attacked by a mob outside Athens. With #Greek police presence, the mob used petrol bombs, stones and batons to attack the whole group - men, women and children.
▻https://twitter.com/alarm_phone/status/1106651815859417089
#racisme #attaques_racistes #Athènes #anti-réfugiés #réfugiés #asile #migrations #Grèce
Je commence ici la suite du fil sur les #graffitis à #Grenoble.
Elle continue celle-ci :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/628739
#art_de_rue #street-art #graffitis #France
Et ici la métaliste :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/745557
#Graffitis vus à #Trento 22-24.11.2018
Meno consumismo, più banditismo
Meno fascisti più autostoppisti
Basta fogli di via. Banditi dappertutto
No fogli di via:
Leghisti carogne
Lega servi dei ricchi
Roma ladrona, ma è comoda la poltrona
No alla sorveglianza sociale
No al #DASPO urbano
Fuoco alle galere
Sabotiamo la guerra
I giorni passano, i #lager restano. No #CPR
Attacchiamo i padroni
#ENI assassina
Non nominare cubetto invano
I fascisti accoltellano, ora basta
Basta frontiere
Terrorista è lo Stato
Io imbratto, egli imbratta, voi blatte. Fanculo al daspo urbano
Ordine. Disciplina. Quello che mi serve è un po’ di benzina
Verità per #Giulio_Regeni
Nel carcere di #Spini le guardie pestano
Fuoco a galere e #CIE
No border nation, stop deportation
Università per tutti. Tagli per nessuno
Le parole sono importanti. Chi parla male pensa male
Morte al fascio
+ sbirri morti
The shipwrecked refugees marooned for twenty years on a British military base in Cyprus
Marooned on a British army base for nearly 20 years. The future of five families from Sudan, Ethiopia, Syria and Iraq – 10 adults and 17 children, recognised as refugees – will be decided by the UK’s most senior judges.
They were shipwrecked off the coast of Cyprus in 1998, rescued by the RAF, housed on a military base but repeatedly denied resettlement in Britain.
We have been to Cyprus to see how these families have survived two decades in limbo while both countries dispute which is ultimately responsible for them.
#refugees #in_limbo #réfugiés #Chypre #UK
▻https://www.channel4.com/news/the-shipwrecked-refugees-marooned-for-twenty-years-on-a-british-military-b
]]>La vie de désespoir des réfugiés relégués par l’Australie sur une île du Pacifique
La femme du Somalien Khadar Hrisi a tenté plusieurs fois de se suicider. R, une Iranienne de 12 ans, a voulu s’immoler par le feu : à Nauru, minuscule caillou du Pacifique, des réfugiés relégués par l’Australie racontent à l’AFP une vie sans perspective, sans soins et sans espoir.
Nauru, le plus petit pays insulaire du monde, vient d’accueillir le Forum des îles du Pacifique (Fip) mais a interdit aux journalistes l’accès aux camps de rétention où Canberra refoule les clandestins qui tentent de gagner l’Australie par la mer.
L’AFP a toutefois réussi à y pénétrer et à rencontrer des réfugiés dont la quasi totalité ont souhaité l’anonymat pour des raisons de sécurité.
A Nauru, près d’un millier de migrants dont une centaine d’enfants, sur 11.000 habitants, vivent dans huit camps financés par Canberra, certains depuis cinq ans, selon leurs récits.
Dans le camp numéro 5, que l’on atteint au détour d’un chemin sous une chaleur écrasante, dans un paysage hérissé de pitons rocheux, le Somalien Hrisi veut témoigner à visage découvert.
Il n’a plus peur, il n’a plus rien. Sa femme ne parle pas, son visage est inexpressif.
M. Hrisi la laisse seule le moins possible, à cause de sa dépression. Elle a tenté plusieurs fois de se suicider ces derniers jours, raconte-t-il.
« Quand je me suis réveillé, elle était en train de casser ça », dit-il en montrant des lames de rasoir jetables. « Elle allait les avaler avec de l’eau ».
– Problèmes psychologiques -
M. Hrisi affirme qu’ils sont allés plusieurs fois à l’hôpital de Nauru financé par l’Australie mais que celui-ci refuse de les prendre en charge. L’autre nuit, « ils ont appelé la police et nous ont mis dehors ».
Le camp numéro 1 traite les malades, expliquent les réfugiés. Mais il n’accueille qu’une cinquantaine de personnes car l’endroit croule sous les demandes. Or beaucoup de migrants vont mal et souffrent de problèmes psychologiques liés à leur isolement sur l’île.
Les évacuations sanitaires vers l’Australie sont rares selon eux.
Les ONG ne cessent de dénoncer la politique d’immigration draconienne de l’Australie.
Depuis 2013, Canberra, qui dément tout mauvais traitement, refoule systématiquement en mer tous les bateaux de clandestins, originaires pour beaucoup d’Afghanistan, du Sri Lanka et du Moyen-Orient.
Ceux qui parviennent à passer par les mailles du filet sont envoyés dans des îles reculées du Pacifique. Même si leur demande d’asile est jugée légitime, ils ne seront jamais accueillis sur le sol australien.
Canberra argue qu’il sauve ainsi des vies en dissuadant les migrants d’entreprendre un périlleux voyage. Les arrivées de bateaux, qui étaient quasiment quotidiennes, sont aujourd’hui rarissimes.
Le Refugee Council of Australia et l’Asylum Seeker Resource Centre ont dénoncé récemment les ravages psychologiques de la détention indéfinie, en particulier chez les enfants.
« Ceux qui ont vu ces souffrances disent que c’est pire que tout ce qu’ils ont vu, même dans les zones de guerre. Des enfants de sept et douze ans ont fait l’expérience de tentatives répétées de suicide, certains s’arrosent d’essence et deviennent catatoniques », écrivaient-ils.
R, une Iranienne de 12 ans rencontrée par l’AFP, a tenté de s’immoler. Elle vit à Nauru depuis cinq ans avec ses deux parents de 42 ans et son frère de 13 ans.
Les enfants passent leurs journées prostrés au lit. La mère a la peau couverte de plaques, elle dit souffrir et ne recevoir aucun traitement.
– Essence et briquet -
Le père a récemment surpris sa fille en train de s’asperger d’essence. « Elle a pris un briquet et elle a crié +Laisse-moi seule ! Laisse-moi seule ! Je veux me suicider ! Je veux mourir !+ ».
Son fils sort lentement de son lit et confie d’une voix monocorde : « Je n’ai pas d’école, je n’ai pas de futur, je n’ai pas de vie ».
Non loin de là, entre deux préfabriqués, une cuve est taguée du sigle « ABF » et d’une croix gammée. L’Australian Border Force est le service australien de contrôle des frontières, honni par les réfugiés.
Ces derniers se déplacent librement sur l’île car la prison, ce sont ses 21 kilomètres carrés.
Khadar reçoit un ami, un ancien gardien de buts professionnel camerounais qui raconte avoir secouru un voisin en train de se pendre. Son meilleur ami a été retrouvé mort, le nez et les yeux pleins de sang, sans qu’il sache la cause du décès.
Pas de perspectives, et pas de soins. Au grand désespoir d’Ahmd Anmesharif, un Birman dont les yeux coulent en permanence. Il explique souffrir aussi du cœur et passe ses journées sur un fauteuil en mousse moisie, à regarder la route.
Les défenseurs des droits dénoncent des conditions effroyables et font état d’accusations d’agressions sexuelles et d’abus physiques.
Les autorités de l’île démentent. Les réfugiés « mènent leur vie normalement, comme les autres Nauruans (...) on est très heureux de vivre ensemble », assurait ainsi lors du Fip le président de Nauru, Baron Waqa.
Mais les réfugiés soutiennent que leurs relations avec les Nauruans se détériorent.
« Ils nous frappent toujours, ils nous lancent toujours des pierres », accuse l’adolescent iranien.
– Economie sous perfusion -
Un autre Iranien, un mécanicien qui a réussi à monter un petit commerce, crie sa colère. Il vient de se faire voler « la caisse, les motos, les outils ». « La police ne retrouve jamais rien quand ce sont les Nauruans qui volent les réfugiés », assène-t-il.
Si les conditions sont vétustes dans les camps, où la plupart des logements sont des préfabriqués, beaucoup d’habitants de Nauru semblent vivre dans des conditions plus précaires encore.
Bon nombre habitent des cabanes de tôle, les plages sont jonchées de détritus. Ils disent ne pas comprendre de quoi se plaignent les migrants.
En attendant, les camps sont cruciaux pour l’économie de l’île, exsangue depuis l’épuisement des réserves de phosphate qui avait contribué à l’opulence du siècle dernier.
Selon les chiffres australiens, les recettes publiques sont passées de 20 à 115 millions de dollars australiens (12 à 72 millions d’euros) entre 2010-2011 et 2015-2016, essentiellement grâce aux subventions australiennes liées aux camps.
« Si on enlève les réfugiés, Nauru est morte : c’est pour ça que le président tient à ce que nous restions », juge le Camerounais.
Mais tous les réfugiés rencontrés souhaitent partir, n’importe où pour certains.
« Au XXIe siècle, les gens pensent en secondes, en instants. Le gouvernement australien a volé cinq ans de notre vie... qui s’en soucie ? », regrette le père de la petite Iranienne.
Dieses Video aus #Chemnitz macht wirklich sprachlos, v.a. der Beifa...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/7647106
Dieses Video aus #Chemnitz macht wirklich sprachlos, v.a. der Beifall der Masse zu »Adolf Hitler Hooligans« (Minute 2). Angesichts solcher Bilder ist es unmöglich, von »wenigen Radikalen« zu sprechen & rechtsextreme Orientierung d. Teilnehmer kleinzureden. ►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD_ZdP79O84 …
Dieses Video aus #Chemnitz macht wirklich sprachlos, v.a. der Beifall der Masse zu »Adolf Hitler Hooligans« (Minute 2). Angesichts solcher Bilder ist es unmöglich, von »wenigen Radikalen« zu sprechen & rechtsextreme Orientierung d. Teilnehmer kleinzureden. ►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD_ZdP79O84 …
▻https://twitter.com/ProAsyl/status/1035101724476952576 #asyl #asylpolitik #proasyl #deutschland #flüchtlinge #refugees (...)
]]>Liverpool artwork listing refugee deaths is torn down again https:/...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/7576211
Liverpool artwork listing refugee deaths is torn down again ▻https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/15/liverpool-artwork-listing-refugee-deaths-is-torn-down-again #Liverpool #Refugees #Art #LiverpoolBiennial #Artanddesign #Culture #UKnews #Europe #Worldnews
]]>08/07: 19 travellers at Turkish-Greek landborder, pushed-back to Turkey
Watch The Med Alarm Phone Investigations – 8th of July 2018
Case name: 2018_07_08-AEG406
Situation: 19 travellers at Turkish-Greek landborder, pushed-back to Turkey
Status of WTM Investigation: Concluded
Place of Incident: Aegean Sea
Summary of the Case:
On Sunday, 8th of July, at 11:14pm CEST, we were alerted to a group of travellers stuck near #Tichero, Greece, close to the Turkish landborder. The group consisted of 19 people, among them a 1-year-old child, a pregnant lady and a man that had a broken leg. At 12:11pm we managed to establish contact to the travellers. They were afraid of being pushed-back to Turkey by the police and asked for medical aid and the possibility to seek asylum in Greece. We asked them for a list of their names and birth dates in order to alert UNHCR. At 1:02am we received the list. We couldn’t get back in contact until 1:47am. The group decided not to move further and to wait until the morning for the UNHCR office to open so they could call there.
At 8:30am we called UNHCR and asked for assistance. At 8:45am we also called the local police station but the operator refused to speak to us in English. We told the group to call 112 themselves for assistance. Until 9:30am we couldn’t reach any local police station. At 9:50am we sent an email to the local authorities and UNHCR to inform them about the people. Afterwards we continuously tried again to get in touch with the authorities and the group, but couldn’t establish a connection any more. At 2pm we reached the police in Alexandropolis. They informed us that they were searching since one hour but hadn’t found the travellers. During the afternoon, we couldn’t get any news and didn’t reach the travellers anymore. At 6:53pm the police informed us that they had not found the group yet. The next day at 11:02am we were informed by a contact person that the group had been found and that they had been allegedly violently pushed-back to Turkey. At 12:45am we managed to reach the group itself. They told us that the police had found them at 5:00pm the day before and put them in „a prison“. At 10:00pm the police had told the group that they were being moved to a camp to apply for international protection. However, the police instead brought them back to the river and handed them to officers discribed as „military“, who forced them onto a boat and across Evros border river back to Turkey. The police officers before had confiscated personal belongings of the refugees, including mobile phones, money, passports and the food for the baby.
▻http://watchthemed.net/reports/view/943
#Evros #Grèce #frontières #Turquie #push-back #refoulement #asile #migrations #réfugiés
]]>#Nantes : suite à la destruction du camp #Daviais par les hommes blancs, un réseau de solidarités s’active. Il ne manque plus que la Croix-Rouge accepte de distribuer le midi plutôt que le soir... #RefugeesWelcome #expat #migrants #exiles
▻https://www.flickr.com/photos/valkphotos/41802464270
ValK. a posté une photo :
+> infos sur : ►http://nantes.aveclesexiles.info & ►http://nantes.indymedia.org
+> Cagnottes de soutien : ►http://www.colleo.fr/cagnotte/10222/nantes-avec-les-exile-e-s & ►https://www.leetchi.com/c/lautre-cantine
+> coups de mains à L’Autre Cantine, rue de Cornulier à #Nantes
+> photos sur ►http://www.flickr.com/photos/valkphotos/collections/721576893150
]]>Je commence ici un fil sur les statistiques #2018 des arrivées de migrants par la mer en Italie.
Ce fil complète la liste de liens concernant (surtout) les statistiques de #2017:
►https://seenthis.net/messages/667569
#Italie #Méditerranée #arrivées #statistiques #chiffres #asile #migrations #réfugiés #Méditerranée_centrale
]]>Und obwohl der Konflikt immer schlimmer wird, ist der Krieg nicht d...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/6976620
Und obwohl der Konflikt immer schlimmer wird, ist der Krieg nicht das einzige Problem in #Afghanistan, wie der @EASO-Bericht zeigt: ►https://www.proasyl.de/news/detaillierter-bericht-zeigt-wie-unsicher-afghanistan-ist …pic.twitter.com/FdslzevdiL
Und obwohl der Konflikt immer schlimmer wird, ist der Krieg nicht das einzige Problem in #Afghanistan, wie der @EASO-Bericht zeigt: ►https://www.proasyl.de/news/detaillierter-bericht-zeigt-wie-unsicher-afghanistan-ist … pic.twitter.com/FdslzevdiL
▻https://twitter.com/ProAsyl/status/982275487102881792 #asyl #asylpolitik #proasyl #deutschland #flüchtlinge #refugees (...)
]]>Unser Experte Bernd Mesovic hat elf Fragen zum #Familiennachzug-Ges...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/6975446
Unser Experte Bernd Mesovic hat elf Fragen zum #Familiennachzug-Gesetzentwurf von Horst #Seehofer beantwortet: ►https://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/seehofers-familiennachzug-pro-und-kontra-pro-asyl-warnt-knallhart-regel-bei-fa …
Unser Experte Bernd Mesovic hat elf Fragen zum #Familiennachzug-Gesetzentwurf von Horst #Seehofer beantwortet: ►https://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/seehofers-familiennachzug-pro-und-kontra-pro-asyl-warnt-knallhart-regel-bei-fa …
▻https://twitter.com/ProAsyl/status/982230607416647682 #asyl #asylpolitik #proasyl #deutschland #flüchtlinge #refugees (...)
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