Mediterranean: the fortress on stilts?
This image recurs frequently in newspaper cartoons: Europe, impregnable fortress for many illegal immigrants lapping at the gates of Europe. The images of the Coast Guard stopped the passengers of a small motor boat in the middle of the Mediterranean are legion. But beyond this symbol, the migration issue is much broader and complex, it uses the registers has internal and external security, diplomacy, the macroeconomic balance and social cohesion and includes the following issues:
- circulation within the Schengen area and visa policy
- the fight against illegal immigration
- "managing humanitarian" of illegal immigration
- the policy of attracting "brains"
- integration issues of people of foreign origin, foreign or naturalized and the fight against discrimination.
