Decriminalising solidarity by promoting the regularisation of migrants

Abstract:

The criminalisation of people and organisations that lend assistance to immigrants in Europe is an expression of the closure of legal or humanitarian entry routes and the growing difficulty of residing legally. The distinction between "economic migrants" and asylum seekers, the restriction of possibilities to enter to find employment and of the scope of the "European" right to asylum, and finally the agreements with third countries to externalise collective refoulement practices, produce a proliferation of cases resulting in illegality.