For the right to stay. For the right to move. Everywhere.

Project focus migration

All over the world people are fleeing from war, poverty and hopelessness. Our partners fight causes of flight, provide humanitarian relief, medical care, psychological assistance and legal counseling to refugees. In countries of origin and transit states, in the place we call home, in networks of solidarity. Becaues everyone has the right to live in dignity. Everywhere.

Niger

Free Moussa Tchangari!

Moussa Tchangari

The journalist, political analyst and Secretary-General of Alternative Espaces Citoyens has been one of the leading voices of social movements and left-wing civil society in the Sahel region for many years. Moussa Tchangari has spent the last year and a half in prison.

Migration

Whistling in the woods

Aktivist:innen treffen im Dunkeln letzte Absprachen

How ordinary people became courageous escape helpers along the Polish-Belarusian border. A report by Valeria Hänsel and Kerem Schamberger

Comment

A European ICE

The European Parliament has decided to also deport people to countries they have absolutely no connection to.

Freedom of expression

Am I a Berliner?

"Nur für geladene Gäste". Schild in Tür

The policy of raison d'état [reason of state] is also tantamount to a frontal attack on the capital of the Arab exile communities. By Yassin al-Haj Saleh.

Niger

Free Moussa Tchangari!

Moussa Tchangari

The journalist, political analyst and Secretary-General of Alternative Espaces Citoyens has been one of the leading voices of social movements and left-wing civil society in the Sahel region for many years. Moussa Tchangari has spent the last year and a half in prison.

Comment

A European ICE

The European Parliament has decided to also deport people to countries they have absolutely no connection to.

Migration

Whistling in the woods

Aktivist:innen treffen im Dunkeln letzte Absprachen

How ordinary people became courageous escape helpers along the Polish-Belarusian border. A report by Valeria Hänsel and Kerem Schamberger

Freedom of expression

Am I a Berliner?

"Nur für geladene Gäste". Schild in Tür

The policy of raison d'état [reason of state] is also tantamount to a frontal attack on the capital of the Arab exile communities. By Yassin al-Haj Saleh.

Refugees and migration

Project Funding 2025

  • Supporting the West African Network for the Defence of the Rights of Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers and Freedom of Movement / Association Malienne des Explusés
  • Support for refugees / Anti-Racism-Telephone Essen (ART)
  • Research project on the European push-back regime at the Polish-Belarusian border / Border Forensics
  • Caravan in Senegal for missing migrants / Boza-Fii
  • Support for the Transborder Summer Camp / Clandestini – Solidarity with Refugees e.V.
  • Freedom of Movement Fund / De:criminalize e.V.
  • ‘Maldusa’ - Support for the land stations for refugees and migrants on Lampedusa and in Palermo / Forschungsgesellschaft Flucht und Migration (FFM)
  • Support for an emergency shelter for refugee women and mothers as well as vocational training courses for migrants in Morocco / Globale Gerechtigkeit e.V.
  • Decriminalisation of humanitarian aid / Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights
  • Anti-repression – Defending human rights activists on the Polish-Belarusian border / Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights
  • Core support / Legal Centre Lesvos
  • Core support / Migreurop
  • Monitoring of border violence and support for anti-racist grassroots movements in Turkey / Rigardu (member of the Border Violence Monitoring Network)
  • Monitoring of deportation detention centres in Turkey in cooperation with Mülteci Der / Rigardu
  • Self-organisation of refugees on Lesbos / Welcome Office Lesbos

Project Funding 2025: € 439,720.42

Projects – Projections

All articles on the topic of migration

21.12.2023 Analysis
The End of Protection

On the Reform of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS). By Bernd Kasparek.

08.11.2023 Solidarity is not a soapbox speech
Defending an open society

A Positioning Statement

19.07.2023 Refugees & Migration
Here’s to the smugglers

After the refugee boat capsized off Pylos, nine people on board were arrested and brandished smugglers - just like thousands of other refugees languishing in European prisons. They are in fact heroes.

20.06.2023 Open letter
"This shipwreck brings back my pain"

Open letter from over 180 human rights organizations and initiatives together with Tima Kurdi, aunt of Alan Kurdi, following the deaths of up to 600 people off Pylos, Greece.

03.04.2023 Refugees and Migration
Create a place of freedom

At the launch of the project "Maldusa" on the island of Lampedusa and in Sicily, we spoke with the team about its importance in the fight for freedom of movement.

22.03.2023 Displacement and migration
Final stop - desert

Migration in the Sahel: As the EU exerts pressure, more and more people are left stranded in Agadez, Niger.

21.03.2023 Refugees and Migration
Accountability in the Sahara

The investigative agency Border Forensics on the conditions that have led to mass death and disappearance of migrants traveling cross-Saharan routes through Agadez.

06.04.2022 Flight from Ukraine
Roma face racism and discrimination

Interview with Dr. Joanna Talewicz-Kwiatkowska * about the situation of Roma fleeing the war in Ukraine.

26.03.2022 Migration
The limits of solidarity

On the situation of Ukrainian and other refugees in Poland. Paper presented at the "El Hiblu 3 Freedom Conference", March 26-27, 2022, Malta.

05.03.2022 Interview
"All people should be welcomed"

Racism and unequal treatment: Katarzyna Czarnota from Grupa Granica on the situation on Poland's borders with Belarus and Ukraine.