Campaign to Break Deportation Culture and Criminalization of Refugees in
Germany and Europe
In Solidarity with Refugee Community Network
Break Deportation Culture – Deportation is criminal and we fight to stop
it!
European asylum structures and processes ensure that every refugee is
criminalized (for some, even before arriving in Europe). This
criminalization is promptly and meticulously processed, and is
manifested in various forms of societal and institutional discrimination
and racism that ends with deportation. Deportation is criminal. It is
criminal not only because of the obvious denial of the deportee’s right
to freedom of movement and the right to decide his or abode, but also
because the physical and financial cost as well as the long-lasting
psychological effects are not reckoned with and provided for by the
deportation machinery and its advocates. In the worst cases, some die in
the process of being deported while others are either dumped in
countries where their lives are in danger or where they are actually
killed by the forces they initially fled from. For some years now, the
German authorities have been dubiously collaborating with foreign
Embassies like the Nigerian Embassy in Berlin to issue Travel
certificates to nationals from other African countries that are then
deported to Nigeria with no guarantee of safety whatsoever. Although
this scandal has been exposed, there is no doubt that both parties are
continuing with this devious practice.
The right to asylum and the protection from persecution that is the
hallmark of the Geneva Convention is being rendered meaningless in
Germany as the continued destruction of refugee rights assumes top
priority for the state. Yet politicians, racist groups, misguided and
ignorant individuals continue to blame refugees for all the problems in
the German society to justify and stabilize the deportation culture and
the social exclusion of refugees....Full Text:
http://thevoiceforum.org/node/4145
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