Monitoring the situation of refugees in the light of the European migration pact
“In September 2024, our new project began, carried out by the organisations borderline-europe and Maldusa, managed by the Forschungsgesellschaft Flucht und Migration, and supported by the Protestant Church in Hessen and Nassau (EKHN), the Protestant Church in the Rhineland (EKIR), LeaveNoOneBehind, and Pro Asyl!
In recent years, Europe has been characterised by increasing attacks on human rights in general and the massive dismantling of refugee rights in particular. One example of this is the ‘Common European Asylum System’ (CEAS), which aims to make detention centres at the EU’s external borders the standardised norm. Unlawful pushbacks and pullbacks characterise and dominate the daily reality of refugee and migration movements, particularly in the eastern and central Mediterranean. Continued attempts to externalise the border regime can be seen in the EU’s billion-euro deals with Turkey, Libya, Tunisia, Mauritania, Egypt and Lebanon.
Sicily, the EU’s southern external border and arrival point for migrants by sea, is a testing ground for the implementation of the new European asylum and migration policy. With the Albania-Italy deal, Italy is one of the first EU states to actually attempt to extraterritorialise border procedures, pre-removal detention, access to asylum, and refugee status determination (RSD).
It is vital to keep monitoring this complexity, highlighting the critical role of civil society actors, as well as the critical actions and voices of people on the move.”
Porto Empedocle: Migrants waiting for transfer to the closed or open centres. Credits: Maldusa
Content of the report:
- The implementation of new border procedures in Italy after the ‘Cutro decree’. Main challenges and ongoing legal battlegrounds
- State-of-the-art on implementing the new border procedures
- The ECJ’s (European Court of Justice) decisions on detention in accelerated border procedure centres
- The extraterritorialisation policy of the Albania-Italy deal
- ‘Safe countries of origin’ and the Albania-Italy deal in the continuity of Italian migration policies
- What will come next
Chiara Denaro and Judith Gleitze
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