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Migrant Voices Reclaiming Migration, Development and Human Rights
November 2010

The official discourse on migration has sought to criminalise migrant and refugee communities, ignoring the root causes of migration and the rights of communities; the Peoples' Global Action on Migration offers an alternative approach based on human rights and inter-cultural dialogue.

The EU Security-industrial Complex
September 2010
Ben Hayes

The EU approach to security is starting to eclipse the rule of law, with very little consideration of human rights.

Examining relationships between European Union policies and migratory pressures
November 2008
Susan George

Instead of relying on the border police, the EU should assess the effects of its own policies on the poor, migrant-sending countries. Unless the policies that perpetuate the conditions for poverty and injustice are changed, the reasons for migration will remain.

Where have all our Human Rights Gone? EU Migration Policy 2008: Response and Resistance
September 2008
Brid Brennan

The Single European Act ratified in 1987, introduces the discussion on migrants in the same paragraph as drug traffickers and terrorists. Ever since, European migration policy has pursued an approach of criminalizing migrants.

‘Arbeidsmigranten: gemangeld tussen vreemdelingenhaat en vrijhandel’
May 2007
TNI
Responses to the Table of Free voices event
December 2006
Susan George
From What Now to What Next
June 2006
Praful Bidwai

There have been several positive trends in the last thirty years of international politics and development, but there have been many more changes for the worse. North-South disparities have grown, thanks to skewed world trade and investment regimes, the failure of aid, and the neoliberal...

From What Now to What Next
June 2006
Praful Bidwai

There have been several positive trends in the last thirty years of international politics and development, but there have been many more changes for the worse. North-South disparities have grown, thanks to skewed world trade and investment regimes, the failure of aid, and the neoliberal...

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