International call for actions on the 31th of May and the 1rst of June against borders, States, closed centers, prisons and their guards.
The free movement of persons doesn't form an exception to a world in which everything is subjected to control.
To the numerous laws that subject us, the States have added the migration policy. This allows them, amongst others, to know who's where and when, but also to decide where we can and cannot go. Moreover these laws serve political and economical interests and give shape to the identity of the "foreigner".
The apparatus "Europe" is being added to the weaponry of the States to justify their repressive campaigns, while they wash their hands in innocense ("it's not us, it's Europe!").
It's the migrationpolicy of this "Europe" that tends to "zero immigration" since the Seventies. But the migration was, of course never completely stopped: it has always existed and will always exist. First of all because Power doesn't control everything (yet), but also because capitalism has interests in illegal migration. The invention of the category "without papers" is not an accidental consequence, but the clear result of a political will. Confronted with this reality the leaders of today all pass on to a "more realistic" policy; one of economical migration.
On the 20th of May a new guideline will be voted by the European Parliament, in order to harmonise the migrationpolicies of the European countries. The most remarkable new measures are (amongst others): the maximum detention-time in a closed center will be 18 months; the banishment for five years of all deported people from the Schengen-countries...
This new guideline doesn't surprise us. It's not a consequence of a democratic failure, but an integral part of its functioning. A system (be it representative or not) that is based on borders cannot exist without camps, nor without a judicial apparatus.
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