Publication (in french) of the Migreurop network’s Atlas
Atlas of migrant flow in Europe (edition 2009)
Critical geography of migration policies
The European Union is surrounded by 78000 km of borders, a number that should doubled if we take account of the internal borders’ expanse of Member States. Since the mid eighties, the states of the European Union have been increasingly reinforcing migration controls not only on their borders but also in countries of migration’s origin and transit areas for migrants. That change makes migration roads more dangerous and obliged the poorest to stay in their situation.
To understand these migration policies’ evolution and consequences, this critical atlas offers us a qualified view on the subject, by presenting some realities usually misunderstood from people in large. Following that purpose, Migreurop gathered information about a reality not only hard to comprehend because of the wide geographical scale it deals with, but also allusive since European Governments try to conceal it.
Each subject explored (about thirty : European visa policy, transit camps, family entry and settlement etc...) is presented in a didactic and illustrated three-pages report in which photos and figures complete geographical maps.
144 pages • 19,50 €
Atlas available in French bookstores or by contacting the publishing firm Armand Colin
Table of contents :
(english translation of the titles)
Part 1
Globalized but hindered migrations
1 Migrants in the world 6
2 Asylum seekers, refugees, displaced people, rejected people...Toward a world with no asylum ? 10
3 The Ecologic crisis, multiplier effect of migrations 14
4 The right to leave, a forgotten right 16
5 The United Nation migrant workers convention 19
Part 2
The international migrations control : toward an increasing protectionism ?23
6 Within European Union : a problematic freedom of movement 24
7 The European visa policy 28
8 Air and port transit visas or how to prevent asylum seeker from reaching European lands 31
9 Liaison officers about to leave 34
10 European neighboring policy : the Moldavian example 37
11 Frontex, an agency in the Europe margins, outside the international law 41
12 Migration policies externalization 45
13 DUBLIN II : orbit the asylum 49
14 Faraway European policy bastions 53
15 The last border, information and immigration control 57
Part 3
Detention at the heart of the immigration and asylum European policies 61
16 To call a camp a camp 63
17 Evolution of open or close camp in Europe and at the European borders 66
18 Camps functioning and modalities 70
19 Close camps in Belgium, between arbitrary detention and punitive insulation 74
20 Human and economic costs for detention of foreigners in the East part of Europe 77
21 South of Europe : the border-camps 81
22 Readmission agreements : a cooperation to send people back better 84
23 In view of the local political stakes, aid for development in exchange of forced returns : the REVA plan in Senegal 88
24 Expulsion costs : the French example 91
Part 4
European policies or reconsideration of fundamental rights 95
25 Buffer zones in Morocco 96
26 Informal camps : in France, the Calaisis example 99
27 Wanderings on the internal and external borders of Europe 102
28 Three millions of Afghans from Iran and Pakistan with no solution 105
29 The Middle-East, main welcoming area for Iraqi refugees 109
30 Chechny migration : a war that never ends 112
31 Death at the border : the roads change but the tragedies remain 116
32 Maritime international conventions reconsideration ? 119
33 Directive on family reunification : a series of backward steps ? 123
34 Isolated minors in Europe : illegal migrants or children in danger ? 126
35 Illegal immigrants in Europe : administrative arbitrary and offense of solidarity 130
36 Migration, globalisation, and transnationalism : which ability to act for the most vulnerable ?
Bibliography 139
The autors 143
Portfolio

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Introduction-Atlas-ENG
(PDF – 24.1 ko)