The newly agreed #Dutch coalition government on Thursday plans the "strictest-ever" #asylum policy, including an opt-out from European Union rules. After six months in the making, the 26-page coalition agreement proposes to “deport people without a valid residence permit as much as possible, even forcibly”. Monte Francis reports. #Netherlands#EU#immigration#FarRight
"For all the attention on the border, the root causes of migration and the most promising solutions to the U.S.’s broken immigration system are often overlooked."
Major immigration news today: A new asylum rule proposed by the Biden admin could be published as soon Thursday and would allow immigration officials to bar migrants from asylum within days — if not hours — of them crossing the border. @axios#asylum#immigration@immigration
Apparently a forced relocation of #asylum seekers currently happening at brand street, #glasgow - details are unclear. 30-ish people there as well as police. I'm not there in person but will update if I get any info
"The insistence that #refugees might be left to drown is the kind of thing that used to be confined to the meeting rooms of dodgy pubs & white supremacist marches where the police always outnumbered the protesters."
They're truly the pits. A cynical, cruel, pitiless party who will happily drag desperate people into detention and then force them out of the country (at great expense, for those concerned about such things) for nothing more than political advantage.
@glynmoody So a #refugee gets to NI, crosses the border to Eire, and applies for #asylum. Eire wants to push them back, but UK will send the refugee to Rwanda, which isn't safe. So now the refugee has a cast-iron case for claiming asylum in Eire.
This might decrease asylum claims in the UK, but it will do nothing to #stopTheBoats.
According to the latest news, Britain’s plans to send some asylum-seekers to Rwanda were swiftly condemned by international humanitarian organizations.
"The British parliament passed a law late Monday that will mean asylum seekers arriving on British shores without prior permission can be sent to Rwanda and forbidden from ever returning to the U.K. The British government says the law will act as deterrent to anyone trying to enter the U.K. 'illegally.'"
'It has resulted in mass displacement, #violence and potential #genocide, jeopardising millions of lives. While the United States (US) and other European nations have publicly expressed concern at the United Nations Security Council, Britain’s silence speaks volumes.'
#Cyprus: Asylum applications for Syrians have been 'suspended'
This will see #asylum seekers confined to reception camps. According to government sources, "Those who choose to leave those facilities will automatically forfeit any kind of benefit and will not be allowed to work"
This decision is ostensibly due to increased arrivals, with Cyprus having recorded over 2,000 from Jan-Mar this year, compared to 78 in this period last year.
Dear #anthropologists - @anthropology
I'm seeking for help!
I'm doing my #PhD to #socialAnthropology. It is an #ethnographicresearch with #children and #families that are seeking #asylum in Finland.
I want to use #newMaterialist theories,but my supervisor is worried that I wont find anthropological discussions with this theme & theoretical approach.
If you are or you know someone who is an anthro, working with migration issues and using am. theoretical approaches, please let me know!
The colonial biometric legacy at heart of new #EU#asylum system
"On Wednesday (10 April), the EU is set to vote on a new set of asylum and migration reforms. Among the many controversial changes proposed in the new migration pact, one went almost unnoticed — a seemingly innocent reform of the EU's asylum database, #EURODAC.
Although framed as purely technical adjustments, the reality is far more malicious. The changes to EURODAC will massively exacerbate violence against people on the move.
Reform of this 20 year-old database will make it the technological sword of EU's hostile asylum and border policies. It will harness the most nefarious surveillance #technologies that exist to date — namely the capture, processing and analysis of biometric data — and enable EU states to have full control over #migrants' body and movements....."
The dire situation in San Diego County is part of a broken system in which border enforcement funding is prioritized above building necessary infrastructure to humanely process a historic number of asylum seekers #Border#HumanitarianCrisis#Asylum