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EMEP: Guaranteeing the rights of migrants is a joint struggle

EMEP stressed that the end of discrimination against migrants and the exploitation of cheap labour is only possible through the joint struggle of local and migrant workers.

Labour Party (EMEP) has made a statement on the International Migrants' Day and emphasised that the end of discrimination against migrants and exploitation of cheap labour is only possible through the joint struggle of local and migrant workers.

In the statement on the International Migrants' Day on 18 December, which was adopted by the United Nations (UN) in 2000, it was stated that the imperialist wars of division and the position of Turkey continue to cause new waves of migration. The statement pointed out that the attacks on Ukraine and Gaza in the last years have also increased the migration. On the other hand, it was noted that the economic crisis, poverty, violence, climate crisis, the strengthening of dictatorial regimes and political Islamist groups, especially in the Middle East, have forced people to migrate from their own places.

AGREEMENTS BASED ON EXPLOITATION OF MIGRANTS

The statement noted that migrants struggle for their lives as part of the working class in every country they go to as a result of long and difficult migration routes, and continued as follows "The cliques of capital, on the other hand, use migrant workers and labourers as a 'threat' to domestic workers by continuing to employ them slavishly in unregistered, precarious and difficult conditions. In particular, the new protocols that are emerging in the European Union (EU) are organised for the 'further exploitation' of migrant workers and labourers and to eliminate humanitarian living conditions. EU countries continue to use Turkey as a 'border guard' to keep migrants away from their borders".

The statement said that migrants are almost condemned to labour camps and prisons and added: "Especially in the last few days, the British Parliament's approval of the bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda shows that this process will become even worse for migrants.

BARGAINING IN POWER, TARGET IN OPPOSITION

In the statement, it was stated that the migration policy of the one-man regime in Turkey, which is based on the exploitation of cheap labour and bargaining, leads to the exploitation of millions of migrants as unregistered and precarious labour, and it was emphasised that leaving work permits to the initiative of the bosses leaves the migrants in the lap of indifference. It was also stated that the "irresponsible" language of the government and the bourgeois opposition is pitting the natives and the migrants against each other.

The statement stressed that the serious situation of the detention centres is one of the most urgent points to intervene and pointed out that the children of migrant families, who have to move to the metropolises where they can find a job instead of to the province where they are registered, cannot participate in education because they are not registered.

"The source of the problem is not the migrants, but the imperialists and collaborating states that make migration a problem. While capitalism is enriched by the blood of migrant and local workers, the greatest antidote is organisation. Access to the most basic rights such as education, health, housing, registered and guaranteed work and a decent life is possible through the joint struggle of native and migrant workers". (EVRENSEL DAILY)


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