Roundtable "Polish, Greek and the Balkan border crises"

Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw

A roundtable about  Polish, Greek and the Balkan route border crises - pushbacks policy and human rights violations

<h2>Part one of the two-day webinar Forced migration and the Polish-Belarusian border crisis. Old and new diagnoses and lessons learned from humanitarian crises at the EU borders</h2>
The registration for this event is now closed, but it will be livestreamed on CMR social media: 
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The recording will be later uploaded to CMR&#x27;s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2m3P7FfJloxjnA5KKzHHgw" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">YouTube channel</a>.The roundtable gathers five excellent speakers with first-hand experience of documenting human rights violations on the external borders of the European Union. Witold Klaus and Marta Górczyńska from The Border Group will talk about the situation on the Polish-Belarusian border. The roundtable will serve to exchange the experience with researchers documenting border violence on the Greek - Turkey border and along the Balkan route: Evgenia Kouniaki and Eleni Takou from Human Rights 360 and Chloe Powers from Border Violence Monitoring Network.During this roundtable some of the most important findings of two recently-published reports will be discussed: Humanitarian <a href="https://grupagranica.pl/report" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Crisis on the Polish-Belarusian Border </a> by the <a href="https://grupagranica.pl/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Border Group</a> and <a href="https://www.humanrights360.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Evros_en.pdf" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The doctrine of the ‘instrumentalization’ of refugees. The borders of Evros in the era of the securitization of borders</a> by ΗumanRights360.Speakers
Witold Klaus – holds PhD in law, he is a professor at the Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences (head of the Department of Criminology and of the Migration Law Research Centre) and a research fellow in the Centre of Migration Research at Warsaw University; He is a lawyer, criminologist, migration researcher and activist - he was one of the founders and currently serves a member of the Board for the Association for Legal Intervention (a chairman between 2005 and 2019).
Marta Górczyńska - human rights lawyer, migration researcher and PhD candidate in legal studies at the University of Warsaw. Specialising in international and EU law on asylum and migration. Author and co-author of numerous publications and reports; coordinator of several research projects; team member and coordinator of monitoring missions to the borders and immigration detention facilities. Academic focus: access to territory and asylum procedure.
Eleni Takou - co-founder and Deputy Director of the Greek NGO HumanRights360. She has worked in the Advocacy and Programs sector of several NGOs. During 2015, she served as Chief of Staff of the Minister for Migration Policy in Greece. Prior to this, she has been coordinating the Racist Violence Recording Network, a coalition of CSOs under the auspices of the UNHCR Office in Greece and the Greek National Commission for Human Rights. Her work is focused on refugee protection, migration, hate crime, strategic communication and anti-racism advocacy. She is co-writer of the book <a href="https://rosalux.gr/el/publication/i-metanasteysi-stin-ellada" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Persistent Myths about Migration in Greece</a> and co-editor of the book <a href="https://rosalux.gr/el/publication/i-metanasteysi-stin-ellada" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">X Them Out - The Black Map of Racist Violence</a>.
Evgenia Kouniaki - a Lawyer at HumanRights360. She focuses on monitoring and reporting cases of illegal practices at the European land borders of Evros, as well as hate crime across the country. She is a graduate of the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and of Social Anthropology of the Panteion University of Athens. She was a member of the legal team of the civil litigation in the Golden Dawn&#x27;s trial representing the Egyptian victims.
Chloe Powers - researcher, activist, and visual artist based in Athens, Greece. She is a member of the Border Violence Monitoring Network, documenting violence against people-on-the-move in the Balkans and in Greece. Her research interests include borders and border securitization, prisons, and insurgent mobilities, citizenships, and city-making practices. Chloe holds an academic background is in anthropology and feminist studies, as well as five years of experience working with different research institutes or in “field” contexts in the eastern Mediterranean (Egypt, Turkey, Greece). Aside from this, she is involved in self-organized mutual aid, feminist, and anti-eviction structures in Athens, Greece.Chairs
Kamila Fiałkowska (CMR UW), Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna (CMR UW)
Photo credits: Anna Maria Biniecka
This Zoom webinar will be recorded and live-streamed on CMR&#x27;s social media.

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