About twenty associations including Cimade, Doctors of the World, Action against Hunger, the Samu social de Paris, Emmaüs, Secours Catholique or even Utopia 56 and about forty researchers or academics challenge “the future National Assembly”, in a open letter published Thursday, May 26 by franceinfo. The signatories ask the deputies who will be elected on June 19 to take “immediate and lasting measures for the reception of exiled people”. They underline that the measures taken to welcome the Ukrainian refugees have been “beneficial” but that “all exiled persons must be able to benefit from reception conditions commensurate with their protection needs”. In their open letter, they call on the future National Assembly to “guarantee access to rights, to allow everyone immediate access to care and to bring to the national and political level the ambition of a dignified welcome. for all of you”.
On March 29, we, associations working for the dignified welcome of exiled people, called on the public authorities to guarantee a dignified and unconditional welcome for all. We are now proposing to the future National Assembly to embark on this path, by adopting, upon its election, immediate and lasting measures for the reception of exiles, whose arrivals are not likely to decrease in the coming years. .
The exceptional measures put in place to welcome people fleeing the war in Ukraine, combined with an unprecedented surge of solidarity, are salutary. At the beginning of May, they enabled 70,000 people to be received in France and to benefit from easier access to their social rights and accommodation. However, all exiled persons must be able to benefit from reception conditions commensurate with their protection needs.
The living conditions of people seeking asylum and refugees in France, and particularly in Île-de-France, are alarming and illustrate the inadequacy of our reception and integration policies. Every day, we, associations, unconditionally support exiled people to make up for the shortcomings of reception policies. Candidates for the legislative elections, we call on you to bring the dignity of welcoming exiled people to the National Assembly!
Guarantee access to rights
The latest, the report The Forgotten Asylum Law shows that access to material reception conditions (CMA) – a right for people seeking asylum in France – is constantly hampered. The CMAs do not make it possible to cover the needs of asylum seekers, the obstacles to obtaining them and the withdrawals are more and more numerous. This situation has already earned France a conviction by the European Court of Human Rights for inhuman and degrading treatment in July 2021. We ask the future National Assembly to change the legislative framework to remove the possibility of completely interrupting the material reception conditions.
We also call on future MPs to improve access to professional and university training for asylum seekers and refugees, and to allow all s asylum seekers to work as soon as they submit their application.
French courses funded by the State must be made available free of charge to asylum seekers as soon as their application is registered; the use of interpreting must also be systematized for all of their procedures.
The rights of asylum seekers must be known and respected. All the actors intervening with them (health or social professionals, local authorities, police and gendarmes, etc.) must be trained and have sufficient resources to inform them.
Ensuring decent accommodation conditions
The street routes that result from difficulties in accessing a roof hamper the exiled people in all of their steps, including once protection has been obtained.
The future National Assembly must vote urgently to increase the capacity of the accommodation stock by several tens of thousands of places in France, within the framework of a multi-annual program integrating the prospects for the evolution of asylum applications. Future parliamentarians have the power to set up a system of emergency accommodation, social reintegration and dignified and unconditional social housing.
Allow everyone immediate access to care
At the end of 2019, additional barriers to access to care were imposed on precarious undocumented foreigners to be able to access State Medical Aid (AME). At the same time, asylum seekers were opposed, and for the first time, to a waiting period of 3 months, thereby delaying their access to healthcare and their affiliation to Universal Health Protection (PUMa).
From 2022, MEPs must repeal these delays and barriers to access to care which have had direct consequences on the health of people who are already particularly vulnerable, and work to integrate AME beneficiaries into the general social security system.
Bringing to the national and political level the ambition of a dignified welcome for all
We, associations, carers, researchers, academics, expect the National Assembly to take the measure of these issues. His entry into office on June 22 will be the opportunity to respond with immediate and lasting measures to the situation of exiled people in great precariousness, and to offer a dignified reception system.
Anne ARGAUD, General Secretary of Watizat
Jean-Marc BERNARDINI, President and Co-Founder and Hanae EL BAKKALIco-founder of Le Chêne et l’Hibiscus
Fanélie CARREY-CONTE, general secretary of Cimade
Alain CHRISTNACHT, president of the Samu Social de Paris
Nicolas DELHOPITAL, director of Family France-Humanity
Berenice Geoffray, president of Thoth
Valerie HANOTTE, Ile-de-France President of Secours Catholique – Caritas France
Rima Hassan, President of the Refugee Camps Observatory
Nicolas LAUREAU, member of the Pantin Solidaire collective
Romain PRUNIER, board member of United Migrants
Yann MANZI, general delegate of Utopia 56
Jacques Mercier, President of Dom’Asile
Pierre MICHELETTI, President of Action Against Hunger
Daniel NAUD, President of the Salvation Army Foundation
Aurélie RADISSON, Director of CEDRE – Secours Catholique – Caritas France
Helen Ramajo, President of Causes
Antoine Ricard, president of the Primo Levi Center
Emmanuelle RINN, Treasurer of La Gamelle de Jaurès
Camila RIOS ARMAS, founder and director of UniR Universités & Réfugié.es
Dr. Carine ROLLAND, President of Doctors of the World
Guillaume ROSSIGNOL, director of JRS France
Oriane SEBILLOTTE, co-president of Paris d’Exil
Antoine SWEUR, president of Emmaus France
Khater YENBOU, director of La Chorba
Diakite Collective
Federation Etorkinekin Solidarity Migrants
Riace Fund
Light Towards Future
Migrant Solidarity Wilson
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Michel AGIER, Research Director, Research Institute for Development and EHESS
Karen AKOKA, CRJF and ISP researcher
Anne-Laure AMILHAT SZARY, professor of geography Grenoble-Alpes University
Christelle AVRIL, sociologist, EHESS, member of the ICM
Virginie BABY-COLLIN, professor, Aix Marseille University
Frederic BALLIERE, sociologist, associate researcher at CURAPP-ESS (UMR 7319), IC migrations
Marie-Laure BASILIEN-GAINCHE, professor of public law, ICM
Marianne Blindon, CRIDUP
Edward BLUMENTHAL, lecturer Department LEA – UFR LLCSE
Amélie BOUHEBENT, DU Social action and migrations, ICP Rennes
Sebastien BOULAY, lecturer, University of Paris – Faculty of Societies and Humanities CEPED
Chiara BROCCO, anthropologist and researcher, IMAF
Celine Cantat, Sciences Po Paris
Geneviève CORTES, professor, Paul-Valéry University of Montpellier
Guillaume DAUDIN, University professor in Economics Paris Dauphine-PSL University
Soazig DOLLET, PhD candidate in political science, CEE SciencesPo Paris
Morgane DUJMOVIC, Migreurop, ICM
Didier Fassin, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, Graduate School of Social Sciences
Caroline Gallez, research director, Gustave Eiffel University
Camille GARDESE, lecturer, Paris School of Urban Planning – Lab’Urba
Estelle D’HALLLUIN lecturer, Nantes University
Myriam HOUSSAY-HOLZSCHUCH, professor of geography PACTE laboratory
Thomas LACROIX, CNRS researcher
Helene LE BAIL, CNRS Sciences Po researcher
Nicolas LEBORGNE, PhD student in geography, Paris Est University
Stephanie Lima, lecturer, INUC Albi, LISST University of Toulouse
Clement Luccioni, PhD student, Laburba, Paris Est University
Carola MICK, Paris Cité University, MIGRINTER
Mary Moncada, Sciences Po CEE and CNRS researcher
Claire NAIDITCH, researcher in economics LEM-CNRS
Chloé OLLITRAULT, PhD student in sociology, EHESS
Emma Peltier, doctoral student Gustave Eiffel University
Jeremy PERELMAN, associate professor, director of the clinic at Sciences Po Law School
Veronique Petit, teacher-researcher in demography and anthropologist
Laetitia POUILLOT, South Brittany University
Faly RAZAFIMBELO, DU Social Action and Migration ICP
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Isabelle RIGONI, lecturer, Center Emile Durkheim
Lilite ROSSIGNOL, PhD student LVMT Gustave-Eiffel University
Pablo Runet, PhD student Laburba, Paris Est University
Fred SALIN, EHESS doctoral student
Carolina SANCHEZ BOE, researcher, Paris Descartes University
Serge SLAMA, professor of public law, Grenoble-Alpes University, CRJ
Nadege SOUBIALE, lecturer, University of Bordeaux Montaigne Stephanie TCHIOMBIANO, Lecturer P1 Panthéon Sorbonne
Helene Thiollet, researcher at CNRS, teacher at Sciences Po Paris and EHESS
Romain Tiniere, professor of public law at the University of Grenoble-Alpes
Andrea TORTELLI, psychiatrist, Pôle GHU psychiatrie precariousness Paris and researcher, INSERM
Lola Traverson, Population and Development Center Project Manager, IRD
Elsa VALLOT, PhD student, USC (Los Angeles)
Catherine WIHTOL DE WENDEN, CNRS research director
Emeline ZOUGBEDE, CNRS and ICN researcher