externalisation

  • Collective statement and call against the building of Italian migrant detention centers in Albania

    On 6 November 2023, the Italian and the Albanian governments signed a deal on the construction of detention centres in Albania, to be used to arbitrarily detain people rescued or intercepted at sea by Italian state ships. Against the normalisation of externalisation, de:border signed a statement co-authored by collectives from Greece, Italy, Albania and Kosovo.

  • S.D.G. v Italy: Privatised ‘pushbacks’ and human rights abuses

    Filed in December 2019 with the UN Human Rights Committee, SDG v Italy challenges so-called ‘privatised pushbacks’—in which states engage commercial ships to return intercepted migrants to unsafe locations in disregard of various legal obligations, including human rights law.

  • S.S. and Ors v Italy: Extraterritorial policies of ‘contactless control’

    Filed in May 2018 with the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of 17 survivors of a 130-person shipwreck off of Libya, the case asserts Italy’s “contactless control” and “functional jurisdiction” over Libyan actors implementing the EU and its Member States’ refoulement and containment regime in the central Mediterranean.