1. 1. http://www.politicalarts.org/imagenation.php?id=727934621173224559 1
2. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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