BLOG POST: The EU’s Deportation Regulation is Today’s Jim Crow
A blog post by Emmanuel Achiri, Policy and Advocacy Advisor on Migration & Policing On 9 March, the European Parliament LIBE Committee is expected to vote on a new Deportation
BOOKLET: RACIAL PROFILING PRACTICES AT EU INTERNAL BORDERS
Brussels, Belgium – 5 March 2026 Racial profiling carried out in the name of migration control is not an occasional mistake at Europe’s borders. It is a systemic feature
Over 40 NGOs across Europe call for a just, dignified, and anti-racist approach to migration governance in Europe
Joint Statement – Brussels, 18 December 2025 Across Europe, migration is increasingly governed by racism, exclusion, and punitive control. Policies presented as “management
Over 250 organisations call for rejection of EU inhumane deportation laws
On 11 March 2025, the European Commission presented a new proposal for a Return Regulation to replace the current Return Directive. Behind the euphemistic name, the proposal outlin
The Anatomy of Genocides: From Silence to Accountability
A blogpost by Dr Emmanuel Achiri, Policy and Advocacy Advisor on Migration, policing Emmanuel Achiri is ENAR’s expert on migration, security, and policing, focusing on these issu
ENAR and PICUM’s joint letter to the UN CERD and to the CMW
Across Europe, migration laws are increasingly weaponised under the guise of public security, leading to racialised harm and systemic exclusion. These are not isolated policy shift
New Commission, Same Story: Europe’s Security Obsession Overshadows Rights
Brussels, 23 September 2024 – The European Union’s latest policy direction, as revealed in the list of Commissioners-Designate and their mission letters, signals a stark commit
JOINT LETTER TO PM KEIM STARMER: SURVEILLANCE IS NOT THE ANSWER
9 August 2024 – Alongside Amnesty International, Privacy International, Big Brother Watch and others, the European Network Against Racism signed a letter to Prime Minister Keir S
Strategic workshop: Gathering against harmful Digital policing, planning for safety
On 7 and 8 May 2024, Weaving Liberation and the European Network Against Racism (ENAR) joined forces to organise a strategic workshop on digital policing. More than 20 community or
ENAR staff member racially profiled and detained at Zagreb Airport
Europe’s racist border policies a growing danger to racialised people: “One policeman told me that Croatia is a homogenous white society, that I am black and that gives them th
