8 August 2010
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3 August 2010
Since a migration stop has been announced in 1974, The gateway for foreign workers in Belgium has been shut almost completely. Meanwhile almost nothing has been done to build up a modern migration policy. All political parties have however, been pushing to develop a new migration policy, mainly because it would be an opportunity to execute an effective deportation policy. Nowadays the frustration of politicians is growing over the inability of the government to deport the tens of (...)
3 August 2010
Each night Spanish navy ships set sail out of the Dakar, Senegal, harbour hunting for boat refugees which are attempting to reach the Canary Islands. Frontex is actively patrolling the West-African seas since 2006 within the framework of the Joint Operation HENA up to 1300 kilometers from the Southern-European coast. In the lead up to the World Social Forum – WSF 2011 – in Dakar actions be organised against Frontex´ presence in Senegal. During the No Border camp in Brussels there will be more (...)
3 August 2010
Since the last Nomade, a lot has happened. Just a year ago, 500 people gathered, “welcomed” by 2500 police officers, to build a No Border camp in Calais and denounce a particularly aggressive and inhumane local political situation
Since then, nothing has changed really if not for the worse : at the end of the summer, Eric Besson (red. minister of migration) kept his promise of a clean swept : the urban jungle and squats of Calais disappeared one after the other under the bulldozers and the (...)
3 August 2010
By many eurocrats and regionally elected dreamt of as a center of power; Brussels is demolishing its neighbourhoods to erect business parks and searching for ways to concentrate poverty in discrete reservoirs. It´s specifically there where you´ll meet undocumented migrants, which are sometimes very capable militants for freedom of movement.
Glass walls
Moroccans, Congolese, Ecuadorians, Afghans and many other migrants are providing a workforce for different sectors like construction, (...)