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Joint statement condemning EU law enabling home raids, policing of public services and racial profiling
Border externalisation: "new and innovative" solutions for migration control
Invoking the "instrumentalisation" of migration, the UK follows in the EU's footsteps

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Joint statement condemning EU law enabling home raids, policing of public services and racial profiling
16 February 2026

Digital Tech Cover

Submission to Home Office consultation on a new legal framework for law enforcement use of biometrics, facial recognition and similar technologies
16 February 2026

Parliament Cover Image

UK: More than 120 organisations call out government's proposals on earned settlement
17 February 2026

Ch Data Retention Letter

Swiss government urged to rethink mass telecoms surveillance plan
05 February 2026

Eu Outsourcing Borders 5

Border externalisation: "new and innovative" solutions for migration control
03 February 2026
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ANALYSES

Uk Ho Plan

Invoking the "instrumentalisation" of migration, the UK follows in the EU's footsteps
28 January 2026

Eu Sudan Khartoum

Inside the EU’s flawed $200 million migration deal with Sudan
15 December 2025

Eu Serbia Pact Cover

How the EU migration pact will increase harms in Serbia and along the Balkan route
04 December 2025

Eu Senegal Aid Funding

Exporting carceral migration “management”: €30 million from the EU to Senegal for migration control
20 November 2025
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PUBLICATIONS

Nois Cover

Networks of (in)security: how global counter-terrorism and security norms threaten civic space and human rights
27 November 2025

Eu Data Protection Handbook

Data Protection Handbook on Asylum and Migration in Europe
31 October 2025

Eu Frontex West Africa Cover

Exporting Borders: Frontex and the Expansion of Fortress Europe in West Africa
10 July 2025

New Tech Old Injustice Cover

New Technology, Old Injustice: Data-driven discrimination and profiling in police and prisons in Europe
30 June 2025
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IN THE PRESS

Euobserver New

Leaked EU paper envisions dumping migrant sea rescues onto non-European states
29 January 2026

Albanian Post

Raport i brendshëm i BE-së: Schengeni po kthehet në një fortesë
22 January 2026

Il Fatto Quotidiano

Ue-Usa: l’accordo per i dati privati di tutti gli europei
18 January 2026

Der Standard

Ausweitung der Passagierdatenspeicherung: EU plant Überwachung von sämtlichen Reisewegen
18 January 2026
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