Gabriella Sanchez
@gesanchez.bsky.social
Fronteriza! Migration and Security researcher at @Georgetown University. Critical border studies; high risk migration facilitation and criminalization; smuggling & trafficking. Tacos & Shawarma. Former @mpc-eui.bsky.social and @diis.dk.
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September 9, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Serious questions about evasion of accountability arise, too. FOI documents reveal that senior EU officials had coordinated to misled MEPs about the scale of unlawful Frontex-Europol data transfers during a hearing that followed our earlier investigation: balkaninsight.com/2022/07/07/e...
EU’s Frontex Tripped in Its Plan for ‘Intrusive’ Surveillance of Migrants
Frontex and the European Commission sidelined their own data protection watchdogs in pursuing a much-criticised expansion of “intrusive” data collection from migrants and refugees to feed into Europol...
balkaninsight.com
July 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Serious questions about evasion of accountability arise, too. FOI documents reveal that senior EU officials had coordinated to misled MEPs about the scale of unlawful Frontex-Europol data transfers during a hearing that followed our earlier investigation: balkaninsight.com/2022/07/07/e...
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For @gesanchez.bsky.social - leading expert on smuggling - 'EU agencies often justify harvesting personal data from migrants by claiming it is necessary to combat sophisticated...smuggling networks. This creates the illusion that the data is actually reliable or useful. We know it's neither.'
July 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
For @gesanchez.bsky.social - leading expert on smuggling - 'EU agencies often justify harvesting personal data from migrants by claiming it is necessary to combat sophisticated...smuggling networks. This creates the illusion that the data is actually reliable or useful. We know it's neither.'
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Our investigation reveals that prominent human rights defenders, who have faced lengthy criminal investigations in Spain and Greece - including @helenamaleno.bsky.social and @aegeanboatreport.bsky.social - have also landed in Frontex & Europol databases.
www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decod...
www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decod...
Frontex unlawfully shared thousands of people's personal data with European police
In the name of combating migrant smugglers, the European Union's border surveillance agency spent years collecting information on migrants and civil society activists deemed 'suspect,' before passing ...
www.lemonde.fr
July 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Our investigation reveals that prominent human rights defenders, who have faced lengthy criminal investigations in Spain and Greece - including @helenamaleno.bsky.social and @aegeanboatreport.bsky.social - have also landed in Frontex & Europol databases.
www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decod...
www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decod...
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Between 2016-2023, Frontex unlawfully shared the personal data of more than 13,000 'suspects' with Europol, via supposedly 'voluntary' debriefing interviews with newly arrived migrants that lack basic legal safeguards - branded by experts as 'covert interrogations'.
elpais.com/internaciona...
elpais.com/internaciona...
Frontex transfirió durante años ilegalmente a Europol datos de migrantes y activistas
Una investigación de varios medios, entre ellos EL PAÍS, revela que la agencia europea de fronteras facilitó a la entidad policial información indiscriminada de miles de personas a partir de entrevist...
elpais.com
July 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Between 2016-2023, Frontex unlawfully shared the personal data of more than 13,000 'suspects' with Europol, via supposedly 'voluntary' debriefing interviews with newly arrived migrants that lack basic legal safeguards - branded by experts as 'covert interrogations'.
elpais.com/internaciona...
elpais.com/internaciona...
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The criminalisation of solidarity is an incredible worrying element of the EU's response to migrant smuggling.
We went deep on this issues with @gesanchez.bsky.social , @bramfrouws.bsky.social and @bernd-parusel.bsky.social in this seminar hosted by @sieps.bsky.social
sieps.se/en/seminars/...
We went deep on this issues with @gesanchez.bsky.social , @bramfrouws.bsky.social and @bernd-parusel.bsky.social in this seminar hosted by @sieps.bsky.social
sieps.se/en/seminars/...
July 8, 2025 at 8:11 AM
The criminalisation of solidarity is an incredible worrying element of the EU's response to migrant smuggling.
We went deep on this issues with @gesanchez.bsky.social , @bramfrouws.bsky.social and @bernd-parusel.bsky.social in this seminar hosted by @sieps.bsky.social
sieps.se/en/seminars/...
We went deep on this issues with @gesanchez.bsky.social , @bramfrouws.bsky.social and @bernd-parusel.bsky.social in this seminar hosted by @sieps.bsky.social
sieps.se/en/seminars/...
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También publicamos en @lemonde.fr , versión en inglés y francés www.lemonde.fr/article-offe...
Migrants : comment Frontex a alimenté de manière illicite les polices européennes avec les données personnelles de milliers de personnes
Au nom de la lutte contre les passeurs, l’agence européenne de surveillance des frontières a recueilli pendant des années des informations sur des migrants et des militants associatifs jugés « suspect...
www.lemonde.fr
July 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
También publicamos en @lemonde.fr , versión en inglés y francés www.lemonde.fr/article-offe...
Reposted by Gabriella Sanchez
Next deportation stop- Nepal.
June 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Next deportation stop- Nepal.