Rotterdam: Conferentie “Fortress Europe”
januari 21 @ 20:00 - 22:00
Date: Tuesday 21 January 2025
Time: 20:00 (drinks from 19:30)
Location: WORM, Boomgaardstraat 71, Rotterdam
Admission: €10,- (regular), €6,- (reduced)
Language: English
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Pushbacks are turning the Mediterranean into a mass grave. Invasive surveillance technologies are being deployed against people on the move across the Polish, Romanian or Croatian borders. And unprecedented footage documents the EU’s continuous involvement in racially motivated anti-migrant operations in North Africa. What is happening at Europe’s borders?
As fascist sentiments are on the rise, leaders across the continent embrace formerly taboo approaches to migration, advocating for deportation centres and border externalisation agreements while safe and legal routes to Europe diminish – leaving more and more space for smuggling and human trafficking. The EU’s migration policies don’t work, yet rules continue to harden.
On Tuesday 21 January we welcome socio-cultural anthropologist Gabriella E. Sánchez – acclaimed global expert on border control – for a lecture and discussion on the light and shade of migration. Sánchez will be joined by investigative journalist and Lighthouse Reports Director Klaas van Dijken, whose latest investigation Desert Dumps unveils how Europe supports, finances and is directly involved in clandestine operations in North African countries where refugees, migrant workers and asylum seekers are being abandoned in the desert or remote areas to prevent them from entering the EU.
In conversation with moderator Nuria Ribas Costa, we will unpack how and why Fortress Europe continues to raise its walls against the global south – and what can be done to better manage migration without violating human rights.