Camps, refugees, IDPs

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Asylum and exile. A history of the distinction between migrants / refugees

04/12/2021 - 06:30 PM 08:30 PM Karen Akoka

On April 12 2021, we were delighted to welcome Karen Akoka, political scientist and sociologist, fresh from her publication in November of “Asylum and Exile. A History of the Refugee/Migrant Distinction" (La Découverte, 2020). The author described and analyzed the trajectory of OFPRA, the French institution founded in 1952 and responsible for granting refugee status; she provided an insight into how the history of the distinction between migrants and refugees was established in France. This conference was prepared and moderated by Michaël Neuman.

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Refugiés rwandais à Biario, RDC. Sebastiao Salgado Interview

Dix ans après le rapport du HCDH, toujours pas de perspective juridique en RDC

10/06/2020 Jean-Hervé Bradol

Il y a dix ans, le Haut-commissariat des Nations Unies aux Droits de l’Homme publiait son rapport Mapping sur les crimes les plus graves commis en République démocratique du Congo (RDC) entre 1993 et 2003. Dans cette interview paru dans l'Humanité le 6 octobre, Jean Hervé Bradol parle de l'expérience MSF, notamment des conséquences de la fermeture des camps de réfugiés rwandais en RDC. par une offensive des rebelles congolais de l’époque.

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Camp de rétention de Dar El Jebel Michaël Neuman / MSF Opinion

Libya: the forgotten ones

03/02/2020 Michaël Neuman

Michaël Neuman spent ten days in Libya with Médecins Sans Frontières teams working in detention centres for migrants. From his stay, he brings back the following impressions that illustrate the gloomy situation of the people who are held there, for months or years, and the even more difficult situation of all those subject to kidnapping and torture.

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Grande Synthe new camp : La Linière, March 2016 Charles Habib Conference

Screening - debate / La Ville Monde

11/07/2019 - 06:30 PM 08:30 PM Michaël Neuman

Médecins Sans Frontières and Crash were pleased to invite you to a screening, followed by a debate, of the documentary film  "La Ville Monde", directed by Antarès Bassis and produced by Les films du Balibari. The film, of which MSF is a partner, traces the trajectory of the La Linière camp in Grande-Synthe from its opening in March 2016 to the fire that destroyed it in April 2017. This event was prepared and moderated by Michaël Neuman.

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Condition of migrants in Paris Antoine Kremer/MSF Analysis

Médecins Sans Frontières-France: tensions arising from the “Migration” projects

05/07/2019 Michaël Neuman

In the summer of 2015, the French section of Médecins Sans Frontières started aid projects for migrant populations in Greece and France. The launch of these operations was the occasion for lively discussions within the association, both in terms of public positioning (how to justify an intervention in a rich country and not get lost in "political" territory?), and in terms of revising our operating methods, knowing that the primary needs of migrants were not primarily medical. Some people then recalled the association's militant practices in the 1990s, which were sometimes considered as abuses. By retracing the history of the French Mission, Michaël Neuman seeks to understand, with regard to the migration issue, the complex articulation between operational constraints, political positioning and militant practices.  

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Aquarius Forced To End Operations Ikram N'gadi Op-ed

Sea Search and Rescue Operations Outlawed

Le Monde
12/12/2018 Michaël Neuman Mego Terzian

Dont acte, la politique de harcèlement judiciaire, administratif, politique aura eu raison de l’Aquarius, déployé entre 2015 et le milieu de l’année 2018 en mer Méditerranée.
Tribune de Mego Terzian (Médecin, président de Médecins sans frontières) et Michaël Neuman (Directeur d'études au CRASH de MSF) publiée le 07 décembre 2018 dans Le Monde.

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Borders and Hospitality

11/26/2018 - 06:00 PM 08:00 PM Benjamin Boudou

The Crash team had the pleasure of welcoming Benjamin Boudou, politician and researcher at the Max Planck Institute, for a conference-debate on November 26, 2018. The meeting was prepared and moderated by Michaël Neuman.

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Débat France 24 crise migratoire France 24 In the media

Débat France 24 Crise migratoire : l'Occident et la tentation du mur

11/22/2018 Michaël Neuman

Alors que le dernier navire humanitaire en Méditerranée, l'Aquarius, est maintenu à quai à Marseille et pourrait bien rester longtemps immobilisé selon les vœux des autorités italiennes, un groupe de naufragés vient d'être débarqué de force en Libye. Débat sur la crise migratoire avec Michaël Neuman ; Catherine Wihtol de Wenden, Politologue, Directrice de recherche émérite au CNRS ; Olivier WEBER, écrivain et grand reporter ; Pierre-Henri DUMONT, Député du Pas-de-Calais (7e circonscription) Les Républicains, Membre de la commission des affaires étrangères.

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