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According to Niamh Keady-Tabbal and Itamar Mann, writing for the European Journal of International Law, the word "pushback" is related to "an erosion of refugee law, and a parallel license to inflict ever more extreme violence upon people on the move who are not bone fide refugees". In the case of pushbacks in the Aegean, they doubt that ...
Forced displacement (also forced migration or forced relocation) is an involuntary or coerced movement of a person or people away from their home or home region.The UNHCR defines 'forced displacement' as follows: displaced "as a result of persecution, conflict, generalized violence or human rights violations".
In 2020, BVMN released a 51-page report into the use of torture or other inhuman treatment during pushbacks. This report was based upon 286 statements from migrants and refugee. [1] Among the BVMN's findings is that in 2020, 90% of pushed-back migrants interviewed experienced "some form of degrading treatment or torture" from border guards.
Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move by Reece Jones, 2017; A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea by Melissa Fleming, 2017 [10] Refugee Stories: Seven personal journeys behind the headlines by Dave Smith, 2016 [11] City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp by Ben Rawlence, 2016
The Post observed six Border Patrol agents apprehend a single migrant just 15 miles down away in Sunland Park, New Mexico, who they were readying to kick back to Mexico. “Right now, with ...
His book Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move argues that making and enforcing a border is an inherently violent act. The citation for the PolGRG Book Award from the Royal Geographical Society called Violent Borders one of the most "influential political geography books published in recent times."
The Palestinian right of return [a] is the political position or principle that Palestinian refugees, both first-generation refugees (c. 30,000 to 50,000 people still alive as of 2012) [3] [4] and their descendants (c. 5 million people as of 2012), [3] have a right to return and a right to the property they themselves or their forebears left ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Russia's former president Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday that the only way for Moscow to ensure a lasting peace with Ukraine was to push back the borders of hostile states as ...