Resettlement - PowerPoint Presentation

Slide1

Resettlement

or

Expulsion

of

Persons

Rescued

at

Lampedusa

and

MaltaSlide2

Member

States in the EUFrontexRelevant operations programmeReception ConditionsItaly (Lampedusa)MaltaGermany/Sweden

AGENDASlide3

„ A

situation wherein there is a reasonable certainity that a person, a vessel or other craft is threatened by grave and imminent danger

and

requires

immediate

assistance

”Slide4
Slide5

EU has

adopted a set of common guidelines for the surveillance of the external maritime bordersSome Member States are not too keen on

concrete

agreements

fearing

of a

pull

factor

Minimal

intervention

is

undertaken

to

prevent

loss

of life,

often

without

engaging

in

actual

rescue

Migrants

are

probably

diverted

back

to

African

countries

before

being

given

the

opportunity

lodge

an

asylum

applicationSlide6

Italian

authorities: „they do not proceed with the normal identification of migrants who are intercepted at sea”Boats with nationality suspectedState

Party

shall

take

appropriate

measures

in

accordance

with

relevant

domestic

and int’l

law

Disembarkation

of

persons

European

Commissions

: 80% of

illegal

persons

come

in

small

unseworthy

vessels

,

putting

their

life

in

„

objectively

in

danger

”Slide7

European

Agency for the Managment of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the EU2004Developed from the European Council

on

Justice

and Home

Affairs

and later from the Common UnitHas the capability to launch joint operations and pilot projects at the request of Member States or at its own initiative It has carried out a number of joint misiion at the external borders of the EU

FRONTEX Slide8

Hera

and Nautilus maritime operationsHera- became permanent, every yearNautilus: joint sea operation: tackle the migration flow in the Central Mediterranean region

targeting

Malta

and

Italy

. 5 Member States participated-2 operations in the regionJune-July 2007: 401 migrants were detected in the operational area, 63 outside and a total of 116 rescuedOPERATIONSSlide9

Number

of asylum applications in 2014 in EU member states has risen by 25% compared to same period in 2013 First 7 months of 2014, more than 87,000 people arrived to Italy

by

sea

Mare

Nostrum OperationTighter controlUNHCR will build on international and domestic law to support States’ efforts to find durable solutions for such amount of peopleAsylum and Migration Integration FundITALYSlide10

Reception center

can only host 800 peopelMany slept in the streetsTransferring 6,000 migrants to SicilyInhabitants were frustratedClosed Sea: film, which demonstares

the

nasty

side of Italian behavior towards migrants and asylum seekersItaly signs contract with LibyaLampedusa- The Ugly TruthSlide11

2014

was a year of relatively few boats arrivals in Malta compared with previous yearsItalian Mare NostrumGeogrpahic location(soutfh of Italy and north of Libya

in

the

Mediterranean Sea)Malta finds itself as a bride between Africa and Europe2009 incident: 154 people on a boat in the Mediterraneas Sea waited for days while Italy and Malta disputed who should receive the „burden”MaltaSlide12

German

new resettlemt programme announced in 2012Aims to resettle 300 refugees per year for the next three years(2012-2014)Only recently become involved in

resettlement

2008:

Germany

agreed to resettle up to 10,000 persons from IraqGermany to resettleSlide13

Mixed

quota modelRespond to emergency needs2011: UNHCR appealed to governments to make availbale a pool of places to meet emergency resettlemnt due to

emergency

situation

in

North Africa2012: places reserved for the emergency pool were used to resettle refugees from China, Syria, Costa Rica etc.In 2013, 200 pool places were used for Syrian refuggesSweden