At the same time people\u2019s trying to reach the EU are left to dangerous journeys and faced with increased violence. We want to stop all this, and we think we can do it together if as migrants\u2019 collectives and solidarity groups we are able to impose our joint voice. We can do it together if we refuse to be bounded to national laws and national politics. For this reason we decided to claim together an unconditional and unlimited European residence permit, which is not linked to family status, income and labor, with a joint statement (link<\/a>). The 30th<\/sup> of May will be the first time we will demonstrate bringing with us this common claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With this message, we want to invite all those that share with us the need to break the national isolation during these pandemic times to raise their voice too on the 30th<\/sup> of May with sit-ins, demonstrations, flash mobs or other symbolic actions. We want to invite all those who want to overturn the game played by national states and the EU over our lives to claim together an unconditional and unlimited European residence permit, which is not linked to family status, income and labor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the 30th<\/sup> of May, we will be hitting the streets in Bologna and Paris. After the 30th<\/sup> of May, we hope to have more voices with us to break isolation and struggle together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n by Coordinamento Migranti<\/a> (Bologna) and Collectif des Travailleurs Sans-Papiers de Vitry<\/a> (Paris)<\/p>\n\n\n\n In these months of pandemic we never stopped fighting against racism and exploitation. We are protesting the miserable life conditions in reception and detention centers, in ghettoes and camps where we are highly exposed to the risk of contagion. Many of us are refusing to go to work without protections. Others are going back to their countries. Others are refusing to become disposable workforce for companies, as established by international agreements between European and non-EU countries aimed at recruiting seasonal workers. Many of us are striking in factories and warehouses in Europe and beyond.<\/strong> Countries like France and Portugal are recruiting exclusively refugees or regularizing all or some of them in order to make them work in the farms; other countries are organizing charter flights for seasonal workers and special corridors for farmers and care-workers; several governments announced migrants\u2019 regularizations in order to cope with production demands. This is not the solution for us! We do not want a paper which legalizes the right to exploit us! We want freedom of movement, freedom from institutional racism and exploitation. Our life cannot be at the mercy of the link between documents and work or family status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The\n global pandemic is showing that, while migrant labor is considered \nessential, the same doesn\u2019t hold for migrants\u2019 lives. We, migrant women \nand men, can be left to die in the sea or on the European borders; we \ncan be shut in detention or reception centers; we can be fired and \nbecome illegal; we can be left on the streets without a home. But migrant\n labor is constantly necessary for the care of the elderly, kids and \nsick people; to clean houses and offices; to pick fruit and vegetables \nbefore they rot in the fields; to keep things going in factories and \nwarehouses where the production is hastily restarting.<\/strong>In Europe\n as elsewhere States are using the pandemic to turn migrant labor into a\n mere instrument to save profits and to be moved wherever it is \nnecessary and only for the time necessary. Our lives matter only if we \nenrich someone other than us: this is what national laws on immigration,\n European policies and international agreements say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today more than ever our struggles cannot stop at the borders and be limited to contest national laws which tie us to employers, income or family reunifications.<\/strong>Therefore we need to break the isolation of our struggles. We crossed the borders and we challenge them every day: we cannot be at the mercy of every single government\u2019s calculations. We have already gone on strike and protested together in France, Italy and other European countries. Today, when the EU states are negotiating to intensify the exploitation of migrant labor and the institutional racism which sustains it, it is even more urgent that we speak with one voice. For those who have been living under the blackmail of residence permit for years; for those who are still undocumented after many years; for those who will become illegal because of the pandemic; for those who have just arrived and saw their asylum application denied; for those who are fighting against borders\u2019 violence inside and outside of Europe; for those who suffered and are still suffering sexual violence in the Libyan camps and elsewhere: we claim an unconditional and unlimited European residence permit, which is not linked to family status, income and labor.<\/strong> Against racist policies which constantly demand us to provide essential labor whereas are lives can always be sacrificed, it is time to organize across and beyond the borders: it is time to assert out freedom against exploitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Translations: Italian<\/a> \u2013 German<\/a> \u2013 French<\/a> \u2013 Spanish<\/a> \u2013 Arabic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Migrants’ initiative on May 30th: Breaking Isolation, Claiming a European Residence Permit. 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