Blackmail in the Balkans: how the EU is externalising its asylum policies
01 June 2021
The development of a system for collecting data on people on the move in the Balkans highlights the overall orientation of the EU s migration policies: outsourcing migration management at all costs, to the detriment of provisions for reception. In order to keep those considered as undesirable at a distance, would the European Union go so far as to extend beyond its borders the ‘Dublin’ mechanism for allocating state responsibility for asylum claims, at the risk of further aggravating the rights violations along the Balkan route?
Dublin: the failure of European solidarity
France: Police Expelling Migrant Children
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Flout Child Protection, Immigration Rules
(Paris) French police summarily expel dozens of unaccompanied children to Italy each month in violation of French and international law, Human Rights Watch said today.
To enable the returns, the police frequently record on official documents different ages or birth dates than the children declared. The authorities have also summarily returned adults, including families with young children, without telling them they had a right to seek asylum in France. The French border police have no legal authority to decide who is and who is not under 18, said Bénédicte Jeannerod, France director at Human Rights Watch. Instead of making snap judgments based on appearance or caprice, border police should refer young people to child protection authorities for appropriate care.
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