Tag: immigration-in-europe
In 2023, Europe faced a migratory rebound from the South
Migrants gather in front of the gate of the operational center called “Hotspot” on the Italian island of Lampedusa, September 14, 2023. ALESSANDRO SERRANO / AFP Europe, despite years of…
“Calling on more foreign labor has become a vital necessity”
Lhe current debates illustrate this: immigration tends to be approached exclusively through a social and political prism, and far too little through an economic prism. Parasited by security and identity…
“Immigration law is narrow, flawed and economically dangerous”
VSPublic debate on immigration in France has long focused on security and identity issues. When the economy is discussed, it is always in reaction to an electoralist and populist agenda:…
Nearly 30,000 migrants crossed the Channel illegally in 2023, the British government welcomes a sharp drop
Migrants picked up at sea while trying to cross the English Channel are escorted to the shore of Dungeness, on the southeast coast of England, December 9, 2022. BEN STANSALL…
“A real debate on immigration would not leave the definition of objectives and priorities to the far right”
Marine Le Pen is not wrong. The December 19 immigration law represents an ideological victory for her and her party. It in fact establishes a “national preference”, a central element…
“The national preference voted in the Assembly will reinforce racist stereotypes”
OWe find many things in the National Archives of the World of Work, in Roubaix (North), notably the personal documents of worker-priests, like those of Francis Philippe. During an “immigrant…
MSF ceases operations in Libya and denounces “endless violence” in migrant detention centers
Migrants detained arbitrarily and indefinitely at the Zintan detention center in Dhar el-Jebel, Libya, in 2019. JEROME TUBIANA / MSF Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ended its mission in Libya in…
at least 61 migrants presumed dead in shipwreck
At least 61 migrants are missing and presumed dead after their makeshift boat sank off the coast of Libya, the office of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported to…
the left tries to display a united front against the government’s project
Until then inaudible, the left will try to regain control over immigration, a subject on which it is traditionally uncomfortable. Monday, December 11, when the examination of the bill begins…
The United Kingdom relaunches its plan to deport illegal immigrants to Rwanda
British Home Secretary James Cleverly (left) and Rwandan Foreign Minister Vincent Biruta after signing a new treaty, in Kigali, December 5, 2023. BEN BIRCHALL / AFP London is trying to…
Niger challenges Europe on the migration issue
Migrants, mainly from Niger and Nigeria, board a van in northern Niger, heading to the Libyan border post of Gatrone, January 22, 2019. SOULEYMANE AG ANARA / AFP The showdown…
“Our institutional system allows a woman to be raped or beaten with complete impunity as long as she is in an irregular situation”
En France, 213,000 women declared in 2019 to be victims of physical or sexual violence, according to theNational observatory of violence against women. Some also suffer psychological or administrative violence…