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Stop the EU Dirty Migration Deals
Refugee Accommodation and Solidarity Space City Plaza: International call for the 17th March 2018 – European day against all anti-migration policies between states People from all over the world flee war, poverty, torture, political, ethnic as well as religious persecution and slavery with the hope to arrive and settle in Europe. But even inside the EU migrants face terrible conditions. Instead of fighting against the causes of migration, the EU is doing everything to stop people from coming. It externalises its borders through deals with other states in an attempt to keep the suffering of refugees out of sight. These arrangements aim to keep people from reaching EU-territory and easily aggravate the situations in transit countries. The 2016 deal between the EU and Turkey is a prime example of this strategy: Turkey is paid billions of Euros by the EU to detain refugees in the country. The EU’s money therefore directly fuels the nationalist war-mongering policies of Erdoğan that recently lead to the invasion of Afrin in the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, killing dozens so far. Migrants are systematically kept in detention centers and deported from the EU to Turkey without even checking their reasons for asylum. As a consequence, far less people manage to reach the Greek Aegean Islands, where the conditions are especially horrible following the deal that refugees may not enter the Greek mainland. They have to stay with little food, water, electricity and bad sanitary conditions in overcrowded “hot spot” camps, where asylum claims are systematically rejected. People on the islands have repeatedly voiced their discontent through protests, riots and hunger strikes. In Libya, too, everyday migrants are imprisoned in private detention centers, tortured and sold as slaves. They suffer extreme exploitation and violence. The EU is funding the expansion of these detention centres. Meanwhile, by implementing the Malta agreement, Europe is training and technically supplying the Libyan “coastguards” to carry out so-called “rescue operations” that are in fact illegal push-backs to Libya. In the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, migrants are illegally and directly sent back to Morocco. The EU’s funding supports abuse, beatings and killings by the Moroccan and Spanish police. Those who try to reach the Spanish mainland by sea face a life-threatening trip. In Spain refugees are usually trapped in detention centres where they are virtually prisoners.
The named deals are not the only agreements, however; similar ones with other states and regimes such as Eritrea and Sudan are either already implemented or being planned. Also within the EU, the so-called migration management is steadily increasing; 2017 saw the continued building of fences and intensified border controls across the Balkans. New fences have been erected in Bulgaria, for example, where the right-wing leader, Krasimir Karakachanov, pushes for military force against migrants. Germany, Austria, Sweden and other European countries continue to deport people back to Afghanistan despite persistent bombings in the country, and are introducing new measures to deport minors back to Morocco.
In the meantime, the Dublin-Regulations are forcefully keeping migrants in the EU’s external countries or deporting them there. By keeping up inhuman deportation practices within the European Union they continue to maintain exclusionary policies of oppression. But all of this does not go unnoticed – we continue to fight against all of the EU’s racist anti-migration policies, dirty deals and its deadly consequences! The eurpoean anti-migration policy has many sides, so let’s show up their connections and unite our struggles! On the occasion of the International Day Against Racism and two years after the signing of the EU-Turkey deal we will take again the streets on the 17th of March! Join our fight Let’s fight together against the EU-border regime and struggle with us for a world without nations and borders! Take action wherever you are and be part of this international day of action! Stand up against the criminal regime of Fortress Europe!
Stop Europe’s funding of slavery in Libya!
Stop the EU Dirty Migration Deals!
Stop Wars on Migrants!
For freedom of movement and safe passages!
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