Tag: borders

• All the thorny questions the EU needs to answer to make ‘return hubs’ a reality

  February 22, 2025

  The project of establishing “return hubs” for rejected asylum seekers faces a myriad of challenges, including potential conflicts with international law. The European Union must outsource parts of its migration… more ›

• Planning a model city for refugees, private investors propose a bold solution to the migration crisis

  February 22, 2025

  At first glance, it sounds like a utopian dream. A Swiss entrepreneur envisions a new Hong Kong – built for refugees. Yet behind the scenes, negotiations to secure land at… more ›

• Exclusive: EU Commission poised to propose migrant ‘return hubs’ in legislation

  February 4, 2025

  The European Commission is set to include so-called ‘return hubs’ located outside the bloc’s borders from which migrants can be returned to their home states in an upcoming legislative proposal to… more ›

• The war that changed the world

  August 21, 2022

  It feels like an eternity ago, that grim wintry pre-dawn of Thursday 24 February. https://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/ukraine/2022/08/ukraine-invasion-six-months-that-changed-world more ›

• US envoy to Haiti quits over ‘inhumane’ deportations of Haitians

  September 23, 2021

  Ambassador warns in resignation letter that Haiti ‘has collapsed’ and cannot provide basics for returning refugees. Ambassador Daniel Foote, the United States special envoy for Haiti, has resigned in protest… more ›

• It is time to end pushbacks and to abolish Frontex

  June 20, 2021

  An informal migrant camp in Serbia. Photo by Abdul Saboor The European Union’s border regime has been rapidly expanding in the past years, especially since the so-called “refugee crisis” of… more ›

• The high-tech ‘makeover’ of Europe’s deadly border with Africa

  June 6, 2021

  Falikou’s border crossing came as work was due to be completed on a $40 million (33 million euro) overhaul, which Spain’s socialist government claims will not only make the borders… more ›

• Revealed: the great European refugee scandal

  March 12, 2020

  Evidence obtained by the Guardian exposes a coordinated and unlawful EU assault on the rights of desperate people trying to cross the Mediterranean by , Apostolis Fotiadis and Zach Campbell… more ›

• UK accused of ‘behaving like cowboys’ over EU database copying

  January 10, 2020

  The British government has been accused of “behaving like a bunch of cowboys” after a confidential report revealed it had allowed illegal copying of an EU database. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/09/uk-accused-of-behaving-like-cowboys-over-eu-database-copying more ›

• Back to the border of misery: Amexica revisited 10 years on

  December 8, 2019

  If you drink the water in Ciudad Juárez, there you’ll stay, goes the saying – Se toma agua de Juárez, allí se queda. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/08/amexica-revisited-ed-vulliamy-returns-to-us-mexico-borderline more ›