1/3 🟠 BVMN’s April report is now online. borderviolence.eu/reports/bv… With contributions from our partner organisations & working groups, this special edition explains how specific groups of people on the move are made vulnerable by the systems that are meant to protect them.

3/3 ❌ Opening of the Vastria CCAC (Lesvos) postponed again ❌ Border deaths continue on the Franco-British border ❌ Urban policing and evictions in Menton and Ventimiglia

1/2 🟠 BVMN’s March report is now online. borderviolence.eu/reports/bv… With contributions from our partner organisations & working groups, this special edition explains how specific groups of people on the move are made vulnerable by the systems that are meant to protect them.

2/2 ❌ The closure of Ušivak TRC and Borići TRC ❌ Access to healthcare in Bosnia, Serbia and Greece ❌Lack of protection for victims of trafficking ❌Systemic criminalisation of minors in Greece ❌Unaccompanied and separated children in the Samos CCAC

1/8 From the late 00s to the mid 10s, the Turkish state built new military outposts, known as kalekol, and new observation towers equipped with surveillance technologies. The satellite images show the emergence of a kalekol in the Çaldıran district between 2010 and 2015.

7/8 The wall, 3m high and 2.8m wide, is made of concrete blocks transported to the border and is topped with barbed wire. Built after other infrastructures, it takes on unusual shapes in some areas where it surrounds pre-existing surveillance pylons and observation towers.

1/7 Along with our partner Van-based organisation .@ortakca_dernegi, we have just published a new report on the Turkish-Iranian border in Van province, one of the most dangerous crossing points for people on the move en route to Europe.

7/7 Technological and physical infrastructures which aim at inhibiting and detecting movement. This map, designed by a volunteer of the BVMN Research & Investigations team, visualises the assemblage of infrastructures present at the Van border.