What is the ICMPD and why we are organizing against it:
The International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) is hosting the 10th Vienna Migration Conference in Vienna on October 21 and 22. As every year, international representatives from politics, actors from the (European) migration and border regime, and scientific “experts” are invited to plan Europe’s migration policy and formulate strategic recommendations for politicians.
The ICMPD is an ideological think tank, which stands behind many of the authoritarian migration policies implemented within Europe in recent years. Its recommendations to policymakers, financed in part by the EU, have manifested themselves, for example, in the introduction of a restricted payment card system for refugees in Bavaria and now also in parts of Austria, the externalised training of security forces in Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria, mass deportations and pushbacks in the desert, and the attempt to push ahead with the construction of a deportation prison in the Lipa refugee camp in Bosnia.
Over the past few years, the ICMPD has successfully managed to keep this “Vienna Migration Conference” away from the public eye. This year, we want to change that and take the 10th anniversary of the ICMPD Vienna Migration Conference as an opportunity to take action together, develop solidaritc strategies, and show that we will not stand idly by and watch as Fortress Europe continues to expand!
Our response: No Border Summit Vienna – Abolish ICMPD!
In the days leading up to the Vienna Migration Conference, we want to network, share ideas on how we can resist together through workshops, manifest loudly against the ICMPD and come together over food and a diverse cultural program.
The ICMPD stands for racist and inhumane asylum and migration policies. Let’s stand together in solidarity and oppose this with alternatives—for freedom of movement and equal rights for all!