Download: 'Camps for Foreigners in Europe and Mediterranean Countries'

international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press Saturday August 28, 2004 15:10 by redjade

'Camps for Foreigners in Europe and Mediterranean Countries'
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http://pajol.eu.org/IMG/pdf/carte_des_campsAN-juillet04.pdf

EU: European activist network publishes map of centres to detain foreigners
http://www.statewatch.org/news/2004/aug/11migreurop.htm

Migreurop, which describes itself as a "collective initiative of militants" including individuals, NGOs
and academics from different EU countries aimed at providing information, reflections, and
undertaking activities about, and in opposition to, camps for foreigners in European states,
migration and asylum policies, and new projects of "externalisation" - such as the setting up of
camps for migrants and asylum seekers outside the EU. The methodolgy used in drawing up the
map of "Camps for Foreigners in Europe and Mediterranean Countries" is based on a definition that
allows the inclusion of a wide range of different types of establishments - "locations where migrants
are detained and deprived of their freedom of movement". These include detention centres for
migrants awaiting expulsion, "reception" centres for migrants and asylum seekers seeking
admission, "open" centres for the identification of asylum seekers and the processing of their
claims (a misnomer, as the processing of the application is often subject to them remaining in the
centres), prisons and make-shift facilities used for detaining migrants, as well as camps located in
countries neighbouring with the EU from where expulsions to their countries of origin are organised,
and the map also identifies major informal gathering points for migrants seeking a route into the
EU.