Morocco stands at the crossroads of the Western Mediterranean route. This umbrella project documents European externalization policies, exposing how the EU and the Spanish state enforce "Fortress Europe" through restrictive visa regimes, conditional development aid, and border violence in Ceuta and Melilla at the expense of the Global South.

The new article series by borderline-europe shines a light on the digital side of European border policy. Discover how artificial intelligence, biometrics, and drones are being deployed for invisible mass surveillance and exclusion.

borderline-europe started in March 2019 to put together information about the situation in the Central Mediterranean Sea for internal research reasons. ISome of the data are published here and on our social media channels.

borderline-europe is involved in two very different MONITORING projects:

• In ‘Detention, illegalisation and the so-called CEAS reform in southern Italy’, the focus is on the implementation of the European Pact on Migration at the EU's external border. The project started in September 2024.
• "Invisible" is about the situation of refugees in Sicily.
• Mem.Med is a cooperation project between many entities that carefully focus on the people who have not made it through the dangerous crossing of the Mediterranean Sea. borderline-europe supports the project through volunteers.

Here you can find our monthly Update on the situation in Italy "Scirocco - News in Brief" and further information on the situation of refugees and migrants in Italy.

Enforced disappearance is a particularly insidious form of political repression. Political opponents are silenced and their entire social circle is intimidated. Together with the Africa Centre for Justice and Peace Studies, we document human rights violations involving cases of disappeared activists and migrants.