Ida Marie Vammen

“I holder øje med grænserne – vi holder øje med jer.” Aktivister i Senegal mobiliserer mod Frontex og EU’s hårde migrationspolitik. I min nye Globalnyt-analyse dykker jeg ned i modstand og konsekvenserne af EU’s partnerskaber i Afrika.

"Externalisation in Senegal: Balancing competing interests" @annagops interviews Ida Marie Savio Vammen @diisdk for the @EFFEXT_project publicanthropologist.cmi.no/2024/12/12/ext…

Return policies have been the talk of the town for years. Spewing harsher and stricter language on migrants' returns is easy. However, fixing shortcomings, such as Member States' bureaucratic failures, and acting in accordance with human rights are the right things to do.

Excited to share my new IMR article: "The Struggle Over Mobility Narratives". It dives into how Senegalese activists use alternative information campaigns to challenge EU externalization in West Africa. @EFFEXT_project @diisdk journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01…

Solidarity with #GeoBarents @MSF_sea detained by Italian authorities for 60 days after rescuing people in danger of drowning. Since the enforcement of Piantedosi Law, NGOs vessels have been detained 23 times while attempting to save lives. Criminalisation of SAR NGOs must stop.

The Finnish Parliament adopted a law curtailing the right to apply for asylum at the borders. Foreign attacks must be answered through foreign policy, not through the punishment of asylum seekers. The @EU_Commission must respond to this breach of EU law. yle.fi/a/74-20099486

New and developing collection of work on externalisation of #asylum

Watch the documentary “Dead Calm: Killing in the Med?”, with evidence of Greek coastguard kidnapping refugees from the islands and leaving them behind in the Turkish waters, some even been thrown into the sea. From EU-funded vessels. Tonight, BBC 2, 9 pm. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Not only have we identified waves of desert dumps by North African countries targeting Black refugees, we managed to trace such practices to European funding.

Join us for this seminar on June 7, where we will discuss the drivers of recent policy changes in Nordic countries, their impact, interlinkages, and future challenges with a stellar panel of Nordic colleagues. diis.dk/en/event/nordi…

I have serious #HumanRights concerns about United Kingdom’s #RwandaBill. Its adoption by the UK Parliament raises major issues about the rights of #asylum seekers and the #RuleOfLaw. 👉 go.coe.int/oULaG

Last week @BusaSays & I launched our new report on "Contested Mobility Norms in Africa" in Berlin @boell_africa where we take a step back to ask "what does migration and mobility even mean", & where does the understanding diverge between social norms + policy practice in Africa?

Our new analysis of #mignex data shows the failures of #migration information campaigns. @PRIOresearch @HorizonEU @nicolascaso

🗳️Le Sénégal a #voté . Nous venons de publier les #réflexions du chercheur et activiste @Ibrahimkonate0 sur la tumultueuse période pré-électorale qui s'est accompagnée d'un nombre record de #morts sur la route de l'Atlantique dans notre dernier @MigControl #blog. ⬇️

Merci de suivre la Déclaration de presse du Président Bassirou Diomaye Faye L'officiel dans quelques instants.

How an EU-funded security force helped Senegal crush democracy protests aje.io/tg4skh via @AJEnglish

📌🚨Un record m@cabre. Une pirogue qui proviendrait de Joal (86km de Dakar) avec à son bord 317 personnes à son bord s'est échoué sur la plage de Ngokhou Mbath. Plus de 27 corps sans vie sont constatés et une vingtaine de blessés. Un comité régional de crise a été installé dirigé par le gouverneur et qui regroupe toute l'administration au niveau régional. #Pressafrik

Greek coast guard threw 15 Palestinians into a life raft and left them helplessly drifting at sea. In recent weeks, more and more Palestinians have been left drifting in life rafts in the Aegean Sea by the Greek coast guard: a cruel and inhumane way to treat people seeking protection in Europe. These men, women and children are some of the most vulnerable people on Earth, with international news broadcasts reporting continuously on attacks against them from one of the world's most advanced militaries, and the international court having accepted that what is being waged against them may not be a war, or even ethnic cleansing, but an all-out genocide. Not are the persecution and attacks on Gazan people showing any signs of stopping. On the evening of 12 February, the Israeli government launched an attack on Rafah, the city to which it had previously demanded people must flee if they wished not to be bombed in their homes, killing at least 67 men, women and children (many reports put that figure at far more than 100 people killed) and maiming many, many more. Even if the Israeli government were not now attacking Rafah, leaving Gazan people with literally no place in Gaza left to run, conditions in the city were already terrible. An estimated 1.4m people are now crammed into the 151km² city, meaning its population had expanded in the last three months to seven times that of the 200,000 people who had been there on 7 October 2023. And this latest episode carried out by the Greek coastguard merely confirms a pattern of cruelty and violence, even against the most vulnerable people trying to find protection in Europe. A group of 20 people, 15 Palestinians and five Syrians, was heading towards the Greek island of Chios Friday when they were stopped by a vessel from the Greek coast guard, deep inside Greek territorial waters. Masked men with guns ordered the boat to stop, took the 20 people onto the coast guard vessel, and stripped them of all their belongings, before they were forced into a small life raft, and left helplessly drifting in the dark. Close to 30.000 Palestinian civilians have been slaughtered by Israeli forces in Gaza, more than 12.000 of them children. More than 12.000 children killed in a war the Israeli government claims is a war against terrorists. How can anyone in their right mind support this? Greek authorities seem to be not only in support of Israel, but also eager to send those that have managed to escape the slaughter, including children, back, by any means possible. And the EU, even as it votes to censure the Greek government for its effective dismantling of the rule of law and human rights within Greece, appears to continue to back the same government's attacks on vulnerable men, women and children exercising their legal right to flee war and terror, and seek safe places to live. The carrying out and backing of pushbacks is immoral and illegal in all cases. But committing and supporting the violent violation of international and European law by an EU member state, against people fleeing what may be a televised genocide is an unconscionable crime committed by the EU and Greek government alike. #StopBorderCrimes

Le professeur Mamadou Diouf Sur le coup d’état de Macky Sall #FreeSenegal