In Hungary, the European Union’s policy of “securing the borders” finds expression in Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s support of a “homogenous culture” without immigrants. Consequently, asylum-seekers and refugees who are fleeing war, poverty and ecological catastrophe are forced to struggle with an opaque asylum process and inhumane conditions in the refugee camps run by the […]
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19.2.2018
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Amsterdam – Accra
23 Apr 2014 Dep: 15h 10 KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (KL) 589 A: So you filmed a deportation? S: As I entered the aircraft, I heard that somebody was screaming in the back. Eli was already there, and told me that they wanted to deport someone. I asked a stewardess what was happening. She answered […]
Free advice for foreigners on Mondays
Do you know how to get a work permit in Finland? Did you receive a negative asylum decision and are afraid of deportation? Are you unsure about how to apply for a student permit extension? Do you want to know how family ties are defined in the Finnish Aliens law? Do you find it difficult […]
Join Free Movement Network
Join Free Movement Network to improve migrants’ rights and change unjust migration policies! We act in various ways: you can participate in organizing events or give practical help for undocumented migrants and asylum seekers. So all kinds of people and skills are most welcome! You can join us by sending email to [email protected] and by […]
The “Closure” of the Balkan Route and Hungary After the Summer of Migration
Despite harsh anti-refugee policy and rhetoric, in the spring of 2016 undocumented migrants continue to pass west, through the “closed” Balkan route and the Hungarian border fence. Entering the country through Bulgaria and Serbia, being forced into systematic detention, suffering from poor quality of asylum process, facing structural homelessness but consequently deciding to travel onwards […]
The Mediterranean Alarm Phone
The number +33486 517161 is a phone service provided by an activist network, which answers distress calls from migrants crossing the sea at all hours. It has saved the lives of thousands. On the day of the interview, 38-year-old social worker Marion Bayer had just finished her eight hour shift at Watch the Med Alarm […]
The Sans-Papiers – A Woman Draws the First Lessons
Where do we come from, we Sans-Papiers of Saint-Bernard? It is a question we are often asked, and a pertinent one. We didn’t immediately realise ourselves how relevant this question was. But, as soon as we tried to carry out a “site inspection”, the answer was very illuminating: we are all from former French colonies, […]
How to Talk When No One Wants to Listen?
Reflections on moments from the struggle for migrant liberation, seen through the eyes of a Polish-Spanish migrant in search of strategies for a global revolution based on love. Movement is in our blood My great-grandparents were Cossack refugees from the Ukraine. My grandparents were refugees in their own country—the Nazis knocked down their houses and […]
مناشدة من طالبي اللجوء العراقيين في فنلندا للشعب و الحكومة الفنلندية
12 اكتوبر 2015 نحن طابلي اللجوء العراقيين, نسئل الشعب والحومة الفنلندية حيمايتنا و منحنا حق اللجوء في فنلندا. العراق و بألاخص العاصمة بغداد مناطق خطرة مضطربة بأستمرار. لم نخاطر بحياتنا في رحلتنا عبر البحار و الاراضي من اجل المال او الطعام نحن جئنا هربا بحياتنا. لجئنا هنا فرارا من عدم الاستقرار و انعدام الامان و […]
Restricting Family Reunification Interferes with the Right to Family Life
A draft bill currently being considered in the Finnish parliament would dramatically restrict the right to family reunification for people who have moved here for humanitarian reasons. Parliament will decide on the bill in June 2016. Moving to Finland to join a family member can be rather difficult. Now the government is planning to make […]
