http://www.politicalarts.org/imagenation.php?id=7 279346211732245591 What Is T ̶ h ̶ e̶ ̶C̶o ̶ m̶m̶o ̶ n̶ ̶G̶o ̶ o ̶ d ̶ ? An academic, activist, artistic discussion on 22 April West, The Hague Helen M. Hintjens
2. Why Free Movement? Free movement & open borders usually
defended on human rights grounds today and during the Cold War Free
movement and open borders are not only good; also practical and
efficient Because: Open borders mean our lives are worth more than
our organs Open borders mean fewer border guards, fewer traffickers
and smugglers Open borders mean migrants can move back and forth,
often Open borders grant us a greater sense of freedom, at little
or no cost Open borders, in a globalized world, mean we can all
dream, and then MOVE ON without the fear of never being able to
return
3. Human Rights Argument Shape-shifting and
multi-functionalcamps, like the newwalls of shame, are a symptom of
an evil which did not disappear with the fall of the Berlin Wall:
the privileging ofnational [?] interest over respect for human
rights, p. 123 Migreurop 2010.
4. Closed borders: More Humane? For many countries neighbouring
EU, incorporating EU norms has led to of legitimising a division of
migrants into desirables and undesirables, the latter whose rights
can be abused with impunity. This has been documented not only in
Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey, Libya, also in Mauritania,
Niger, Sudan, Ukraine and beyond. In Morocco and Turkey there have
been changes in the law, under EU insistence, that have:
contributed to legitimating repression by the Moroccan [and
Turkish] state against irregular migrants and refugees, and ending
the protection built up over past decades. Cooperation with EU
means even Turkish citizens can get into the EU only after signing
a readmission agreement, so Turkeys own citizens are subject to
forced returns, and cannot be detained on return if they do not
comply.
5. Closed Borders: More Efficient? One man had been detained in
Samos for a few days and beaten, before being returned to Turkey.
Three of them said they had tried to cross the Aegean Sea with
their children aged between seven months and eight years. They said
that their families had undergone beatings and body searches by the
Greek coastguards and had their personal belongings stolen. Their
children had not been beaten but had been subjected to the same
body searches as the adults, p. 67 2014 Migreurop report. No legal
basis actually exists to justify the detention of these persons,
which according to Greek and European law can only be justified for
the purposes of organising their removal, which often cannot be
carried out since they have no papers, or their home country is at
war (Syria), p. 71 same report. Such abuse does not come cheap = in
2013-14 the cost was: 278 383 506 Euros.
6. Reading Migration without Borders: Essays on the Free
Movement of People, Eds. Antoine Pcoud and Paul de Guchteneire
Migreurop Report 2014 on Frontex Migreurop Report 2010 Detention
Deportation Guardian the Worlds Most Dangerous Journey: an Eritrean
Le Monde Diplomatique report on Expulsions Information of UNHCR
regarding situation of Syrian refugees