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[Aegean Boat Report @ABoatReport]

July was a brutal month in the Aegean Sea.

Aegean Boat Report documented 33 illegal pushbacks carried out by the Hellenic Coast Guard. 793 people – children clutching their parents, terrified women, and exhausted men – were denied their legal right to seek asylum. Their human rights were trampled by the Greek government.

The numbers are rising fast. Pushback cases in July were up 73.7% from June. The number of people forced back grew by 48.2%.

In 10 incidents, the cruelty was even more blatant: 215 people were loaded into 14 inflatable life rafts – equipment meant for saving lives – and left to drift helplessly in open waters. These life raft cases made up 27.1% of all pushbacks in July, a staggering 400% increase from the month before.

Since January 2020, we have documented 3,449 pushbacks in the Aegean Sea, involving 94,633 men, women, and children. In 1,113 of those cases, 29,527 people were abandoned in 1,705 life rafts – deliberately left to the mercy of the sea.

This is not border protection.
This is a systematic assault on human dignity.

If we don’t document this, who will?

More pictures from the life raft cases in July in our Facebook post.

For more detailed statistics go to https://t.co/ZyvIhfwpk3. / ABR Statistics.

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Aegean Boat Report

[Migration & Asylum Post @MigrPost]

A cat-and-mouse game: How migrants and smugglers adapt to AI border technology

https://t.co/mR2popgzre

[Migration & Asylum Post @MigrPost]

3 Turkish smugglers detained in a migrant smuggling case in Canada's Quebec

https://t.co/eku7esx1Hn

[Migration & Asylum Post @MigrPost]

A New Topic in Migration:

"Millionaire Migration"

https://t.co/LH8n3UCBYt

[Migration & Asylum Post @MigrPost]

Migrant Deaths:
Migrant boat capsizes off Yemen
60 dead in Yemen

https://t.co/TPVQso8J6V

[IMISCOE @IMISCOE]

🚨Call for Applications – 3 Fully Funded PhD Positions
The EuroMedMig PhD Network has launched its second call for applications under the topic: Economy and Labour Market.
⏳Deadline: 19 May 2025
🔗All the details and how to apply: https://t.co/rQ0xfm6AO5
#EuroMedMigPhD

[Frontex @Frontex]

📢 Situation at the EU external borders Jan-Apr 2025
📊 Irregular border crossings fall 27% y/y
📉 Western Balkans see the biggest drop
🚨 Central Mediterranean busiest route with one third of all arrivals
🔗https://t.co/bEE3QR2gLa

[Migration & Asylum Post @MigrPost]

European holiday planned for 2025? 10 Schengen countries have brought back internal border checks

@EconomicTimes

https://t.co/MWye6ikLng

[Migration & Asylum Post @MigrPost]

European holiday planned for 2025? 10 Schengen countries have brought back internal border checks

@EconomicTimes

https://t.co/MWye6ikLng

[Aegean Boat Report @ABoatReport]

Greece must face punishment over abuses against migrants, Frontex official says https://t.co/2mBjQkCCN2

[EU_Eurostat @EU_Eurostat]

In 2024, EU countries granted protection status to 437 900 asylum seekers, a 7% increase compared with 2023 (409 530).

Most were:
🇸🇾 Syrians (32% of the total number granted protection status in the EU)
🇦🇫 Afghans (17%)
🇻🇪 Venezuelans (8%)

➡️ https://t.co/5MH3MKIQg8

[GenSeM @GenSeM3]

🏆 Call for GenSeM Best Article Award on Gender, Sexuality and Migration 2024!
We are delighted to launch a new initiative to recognise the high quality of research produced by members of the GenSeM community.
📅 Deadline: May 30th
📎 Full details below
@IMISCOE @IMISCOE_PhD

[Cevat Giray Aksoy @cevatgirayaksoy]

📢Call for papers!

We’re excited to announce the 2nd Transatlantic Political Economy Conference (T-PEC), taking place at King's College London on November 6–7, 2025

Keynote Speaker: Elias Papaioannou (LBS)

Submission Deadline: July 4, 2025

Submit via: https://t.co/hpl6gigZxt

[Pew Research Center @pewresearch]

42% of U.S. adults say deportations of immigrants who are living in the country illegally will raise food prices in their area. The public is more divided about the effect of deportations on other prices in their area:

[esomi_udc @esomi_udc]

Good news for all attending The Migration Conference 2025! 🎉

The Early Bird Registration deadline has been extended to 19 April 2025!

Hosted by the University of Greenwich, School of Law and Criminology in London

More information: https://t.co/y5QdjtpFrF

[Migration & Asylum Post @MigrPost]

RESEARCH:
Recent trends in migration flows from the United States to Canada

by Feng You & Max Stick

https://t.co/stDJUNWuXZ

[EU_Eurostat @EU_Eurostat]

On 28 February 2025, slightly more than 4.3 million non-EU citizens who fled 🇺🇦 Ukraine had temporary protection status in the EU. 🛂

Most were in:
🇩🇪Germany (1 177 800 people)
🇵🇱Poland (994 790)
🇨🇿Czechia (397 750)

➡️https://t.co/ff0bKWo8Km

[Border Studies @borderstudiess]

#Borderbooks #OpenAccess

📗Ocean Governance (Beyond) #Borders

🖊️ Edited by Kimberley Peters & Jennifer Turner

🗓️ 2025

🏫 Palgrave Macmillian

🔎 For free and unlimited access: https://t.co/wGN787ciF4

[Migration & Asylum Post @MigrPost]

RESEARCH:
Recent trends in migration flows from the United States to Canada

by Feng You & Max Stick

https://t.co/stDJUNWuXZ

[Migration & Asylum Post @MigrPost]

The Khartoum Process:
A platform for political cooperation amongst the countries along the migration route between the Horn of Africa and Europe.

https://t.co/q8JD7D2jrC