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| Consultation: | FYEG General Assembly 2022 |
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| Agenda item: | 4. Resolutions |
| Status: | Published |
| Submitted: | 06/24/2022, 14:52 |
| History: | Version 1 |
R8new: No Discrimination on Migration
Motion text
According to the latest data from the UNHCR, more than 4,000,000 Ukrainians left
their country since the beginning of the Russian invasion, seeking asylum in
nearby European countries. With the European Union and European countries openly
denouncing the war, a wave of solidarity has risen in Europe, with thousands of
European citizens having mobilised to welcome and help the Ukrainian refugees,
including through donations and the provision of accommodation.
Although this wave of solidarity is admirable and has helped hundreds of
thousands, it is developed jointly with a problematic discourse: indeed, we have
heard that these refugees would be of “quality”, and that our proximity with the
Ukrainian people justified the welcoming efforts, as they are “like us”. This
problematic discourse assesses that non-European refugees would be of “bad
quality” since they are not “like us”: this is uninhibited racism, and it is
unacceptable.
All of us thus must fight this discourse, and underline its racist character:
this can no more be the main discourse in the European media, as the FYEG has
previously done, with the #NoDiscriminationOnMigration.
Furthermore, we must acknowledge the various marginalised groups made invisible
and swept under the rug in our discourse on asylum. In the Ukrainian context
alone, people of colour, immigrants, ethnic minorities and LGBTQIA+ refugees
faced disproportionately high obstacles in fleeing. In the broader asylum
context, systemic, systematic and social discrimination and obstacles are faced
on the grounds of religion, beliefs, cultural and ethnic origin, gender and
sexual orientation and identity, disability and class. The asylum system within
Europe needs exhaustive and comprehensive reform in order to guarantee the right
to asylum for all peoples.
Therefore, following this communication campaign, the Federation of Young
European Greens calls on the European Union and the governments of all European
States to:
Welcome and guarantee the right to asylum to all refugees, with special
consideration to the extra obstacles faced by marginalised minorities
whether from Ukraine or any other place in the world, and to accommodate
for these obstacles.
Stop all pushbacks at the border as well as the deportation of those who
have crossed the border, acknowledging the necessity of humanitarian duty
instead of the construction of "Fortress Europe".
- Replace Frontex and the concept of “Fortress Europe” with a humanitarian
alternative focused on saving and welcoming refugees.
Immediately stop the criminalisation of people and non-governmental and
civil society organisations devoted to welcoming and helping refugees and
facilitating the movement of these peoples across international waters,
and to finally support these organisations.
- Rather than the persecution of refugee traffickers, combat refugee
trafficking by providing real and legal alternatives to traffickers for
refugees to flee to the EU, especially for refugees fleeing conflicts, or
refugees for whom the journey is too costly and dangerous.
- End as soon as possible EU refugee cooperation treaties with Turkey and
Libya as well as the externalisation of the EU border regime via such
treaties and the funding of autocratic regimes in Africa to stop migration
corridors, which keep out refugees on the basis of their background and
which put the most vulnerable refugees in even more dangerous situations.
- Facilitate and ensure the provision of basic rights and needs to those
seeking asylum such as humane accommodation pending approval of their
asylum process and Europe-wide coordinated processes to ensure asylum
seekers are not left in limbo for years in camps.
- Continue this facilitation and guarantee of basic rights and needs upon
having their application processed and the refugee relocated including but
not limited to language, housing, humane temporary accommodation in
facilities, right to work, healthcare and mental healthcare.
- Within the EU, implement an EU-wide framework truly based on the
principles of solidarity and responsibility sharing for the shared
funding, processing and relocation of asylum seekers and refugees, wherein
the Dublin regulation is abolished, Member States with the most resources
live up to their commitments to relocate refugees with an enforcement
mechanism to ensure this, as well as mechanisms that provide funding for
the processing of asylum seekers and coordinate the relocation of refugees
in a manner that is finally fairly and justly divided between Member
States based on their capacity.
Together, we must stand up against racism. Always. Everywhere.
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