Sunday 19th October
Cafe Club International
Payergasse 14, 1160 Wien
All Workshops are free of charge and open to all. The Workshops will be happening at or in venues close by the ” Cafe Club International” (Payergasse 14, 1160 Wien).
To participate, please ‘register’ at the Info Point, which will be at Club International. Workshops will be in English / German, if you want translation to any other language send us a mail to: no-border-summit@systemli.org and we will try to organise it!
AEI zu Externalisierung von Grenzen & die Rolle vom ICMPD in Tunesien
| Time Slot: | 10:00 – 12:00 |
| Hosted by: | Afrique-Europe Interact with Rayhane (activist from Tunisia) |
| Language: | English |
Systematic violations of human rights of people on the move have become common in all North African countries,
This brutalised and murderous border violence is fuelled by the migration agreements between EU states and local governments.
The ICMPD is involved in training programmes with Tunisian border guards and in setting up migration control cooperations with Algeria and is an active player in establishing dirty migration control deals between the EU and the Maghreb states. In light of this situation, we invite Rayhane from Tunisia to talk about border regime externalisation policies and migration deals in Tunisia and their concrete consequencesRayhane will also share experiences from her practical solidarity work with people on the move and talk about the challenges imposed by criminalisation and imprisonment of human rights defenders.
Together, we will analyse the role of ICMPD as an active player of this border regime externalisation.
Beyond this, we also want to discuss perspectives of practical solidarity to defend freedom of movement and human rights of people on the move.
Repackaging Imperialism: Unpacking the EU–IOM Border Regime
| Time Slot: | 10:00 – 12:00 |
| Hosted by: | Nidzara Ahmetsevic |
| Language: | English |
Join Nidzara Ahmetašević in a critical exploration of how migration is framed—and controlled—through the prism of capitalist and imperial strategies. This workshop draws from incisive reflections and collaborative research, including Repackaging Imperialism: The EU–IOM Border Regime in the Balkans.
Introduction from “Watch the Med Alarmphone”
| Time Slot: | 10:00 – 12:00 |
| Languages: | German / English |
| Hosted by: | Watch the Med |
Bei diesem Input wird das transnationale Aktivist.innen-Netzwerk Watch The Med Alarm Phone vorgestellt, das seit 2014 Menschen in Seenot auf dem Weg nach EUropa unterstützt. Die Initiative dokumentiert Menschenrechtsverletzungen an den europäischen Außengrenzen und trägt dazu bei, die Gewalt des europäischen Grenzregimes öffentlich zu machen. Zusammen mit anderen Akteur.innen setzt sich das Alarm Phone für die Rechte von People on the Move ein. Lasst uns gemeinsam über die politische Dimension dieser Arbeit sprechen und diskutieren, wie solidarische Praxis gegen Abschottung und für Bewegungsfreiheit aussehen kann!
GEAS Reform Explained
| Time Slot: | 10:00 – 12:00 |
| Hosted by: | tba |
| Language: | German / English |
The reform of the “Gemeinsamen Europäischen Asylsystems” (GEAS) represents a drastic tightening of European asylum policy and further disenfranchises people on the move. In particular, detention and detention-like measures are being expanded, and existing restrictive practices are to be legally legitimised by the reform. In this workshop, we want to gain an overview of the origins of the GEAS and the key innovations of the current reform. We will take a particular look at current plans to externalise asylum procedures and establish migration detention facilities outside the EU. We also want to ask ourselves: How are we affected by the upcoming changes in our existing practices of solidarity, what successful strategies already exist, and where do we need to develop new ones together?
„There are no laws. They are the law.” and beyond – Migrationshaft in Österreich (und Widerstand gegen Abschiebungen)
| Time Slot: | 13:30 – 15:30 |
| Hosted by: | Dessi |
| Languages: | German / English |
In Österreich können Personen bis zu 18 Monate in Migrationshaft eingesperrt werden, nur weil ihnen die „richtigen“ Papiere fehlen. Im Herbst 2024 haben Pushback-Alarm Austria und die Deserteurs- und Flüchtlingsberatung einen Bericht über die katastrophalen Zustände in Österreichs größtem Anhaltezentrum veröffentlicht. Ein Jahr später möchten wir darüber sprechen, was sich seitdem getan hat: Was erleben die Leute, die drin sitzen und welche Strategie verfolgen österreichische Behörden im Bereich Migrationshaft?
Return, “Reintegration”, Deportation made by ICMPD
| Time Slot: | 13:30 – 15:30 |
| Hosted by: | Rex Osa by Refugees for Refugees |
| Languages: | English |
This workshop will dive into the broad field of return, reintegration and re-admission programmes offered by the ICMPD and other players. It will expose the core interest of the ICMPD in controlling and hindering migration. Rex Osa, the founder of German based Network Refugees 4 Refugees will speak about the deportation monitoring project DERS and what happens once people are forced back to their countries of origin.
Labour Migration
| Time Slot: | 13:30 – 15:30 |
| Hosted by | Popi with Sezieroni, Berlin Collective, Aupair Repair, IG24 |
| Languages | English & Romanian |
Labor migration is often framed through the so-called “triple win narrative” of circular migration, where sending countries, receiving countries, and migrants themselves all supposedly benefit. While ICMPD holds “armchair conversations” about what “benefits can be reaped from international labor mobility,” what is left behind are the often precarious lived realities of migrant workers.
In this panel discussion, we shift the focus away from policy discourse to the everyday struggles of the people who are keeping the agricultural, care, and delivery sectors alive.
Together with organizers from Au Pair Repair, Drept pentru îngrijire/IG24, Lieferando Workers Collective Berlin, and Sezonieri, we will reflect on how the EU and national border regimes cheapen and make workers vulnerable. Who are the actors that benefit from this arrangement? What are the embodied consequences when care work is not recognized as work? How does “seasonal migration” mean when the demand for cheap labor is, in fact, permanent? And how can we struggle against this precarity collectively, across sectors?
Privilege sharing – historically and today
| Time Slot: | 13:30 – 15:30 |
| Hosted by: | Petja, Birgit |
| Languages: | English or German |
Der WS schaut sich die aktuelle Ö/EU-Aufenthaltsrechtslage an, tauscht Erfahrungen mit Menschen aus, die um „Papiere“ kämpfen, und entwickelt potenzielle Ideen, um die rassistischen österreichischen Verhältnisse diesbezüglich zu brechen. Welche patriarchalen, heteronormativen, konservativen (rechts-)Normen können so ausgespielt werden, dass Aufenthalt und ein Leben in Österreich für papierlose rassifizierte Mitmenschen ermöglicht werden? Sind solche Praxen als querfeministische, antirassistische, für ein plurales Österreich zu verstehen
Praktische Solidarität gegen Abschiebungen
| Time Slot: | 16:00 – 18:00 |
| Hosted by: | Stop Deportation Vienna |
| Languages: | English or German |
The EU and the austrian state are on a rampage right now and their obvious aim is to deport people to all parts of the world, deport more people than ever and to do it fast. That’s why we on the other hand need to be better prepared to actually stop deportations, create awareness around the topic and practice how to effectively show solidarity with people on the move. Join us as we find out together – what has worked in the past, what has changed, and especially: what strategies we should focus on together in the future.
Palestine and the No Border Struggle
| Time Slot: | 16:00 – 18:00 |
| Hosted by: | PBA |
| Languages: | English or German |
The workshop discussion links the ongoing struggle against Zionist settler colonialism and genocide in Palestine with wider no-border struggles. It explores how occupation, displacement, and border regimes are interconnected. The session highlights how structural racism produces unequal conditions for the recognition and protection of the right to life, alongside the complicity of international institutions and the European Union in sustaining these violent systems. It calls for connecting anti-colonial and no-border struggles in collective action.
No Name Kitchen in Serbia
| Time Slot: | 16:00 – 18:00 |
| Hosted by: | No Name Kitchen Serbia |
| Languages: | English or German |
Talk + Q&A with Non Name Kitchen activists.
Introduction of no name kitchen serbia (belgrade) and sharing experiences from the border. The talk will touch upon the situation in Serbia for people on the move, EU border externalization, the role of the police, border humanitarianism, and how solidarity can look like in practice.