While EU border agency Frontex was originally established to control EU’s securitised borders , it has increasingly become a key actor in deportations. What began with coordinating joint return flights has expanded to pre-departure assistance and the initiation of deportations itself.
With the reform of the Common European Asylum System and the upcoming review of its mandate, a dangerous turning point is approaching. Frontex is consolidating its role in deportation governance, helping turn deportations into a routine, bureaucratised practice of the EU border regime. One that systematically violates the rights and dignity of people on the move.
On June 20, World Refugee Day, we call for decentralised actions against deportations and against Frontex’s expanding role in making them possible. We must resist the growing capacity for deadly policing. Resistance begins with dismantling Frontex’s role in deportation operations.
From Europe and Africa, we raise a clear message: we will not stand by while deportations are expanded, normalised, and enforced through violence against people on the move.
There are many ways to take action: flyers, banners, graffiti, street posters, gatherings, speeches, art installations, demonstrations, occupations, blockades, sabotage, and more. Be creative, act together, and make the resistance visible.
Find more information about the movement, action ideas, and more here.
As always, please inform us if you are planning something in your city by emailing info[at]abolishfrontex.org so that we can integrate it into our communications.