Jesuit Refugee Service

Jesuits - Five Priorities 2003confirmed in 2008

• Intellectual Reflection

• Studies in Rome

• Forced migrants

• China

• Africa

A Jesuit Refugee Service B JRS Europe

country offices & Europe office1. Detention 2. Destitution 3. Externalisation of Asylum

C JRS Europe Europe Office Brussels

4. Migration and Development5. Young Journalists6. Pedro Arrupe Award schools

D Organisation

A. Jesuit Refugee Service

Jesuit Refugee Service

• To Accompany• To Serve• To Defend

forced migrants

* in Africa & Asia Education in the camps

* in Europe & USA: Migrants in Detention

Africa Waiting for medical care, Ivory Coast

Young women in tie-dye class, Montserrado camp, Liberia

JRS high school students in Salala, Liberia

Karenni refugee school director and JRS project director, Mae Hong Son camp, Thailand

Refugee children, Mae Hong Son camp, Thailand

Women with Dominican identity cards forcibly expelled to Haiti, May 2005

B. JRS - Europe

• 14 countries

• Jesuits and partners

• Work varies, spirit the same

Accompany, Serve, Advocate

Where JRS Works in Europe

National offices

Contact persons

1. Belgium Austria 2

2. Germany Czech Republic -

3. Ireland Greece 1

4. Italy Lebanon 2

5. Malta Spain 4

6. Portugal South Poland 1

7. Romania Slovakia 2

8. Slovenia

9. UK

10. Kosovo

11Bosnia/Croatia

12. Sweden

13. France

14. Ukraine

JRS Direct Service in Europe

• Visit detention centers in Berlin, London, Brussels• Help trafficked people in Lisbon• Offer food and shelter in Rome, Bucharest• Integrate refugees into the community in Dublin• Educate against xenophobia on Slovenian Radio • Legal advice to asylum seekers & migrants Malta• Assist landmine victims in Kosovo• Interreligious activities Berlin, Macedonia

JRS Europe

1. Detention2. Destitution3. Externalisation

4. Migration and Development5. Young Journalists6. Pedro Arrupe Award

USA & EUR focus: DETENTION

• They are not criminals

• They often seek asylum within the law

• They do not have the correct papers

• Also families and children

• Sometimes detained on arrival

• Mostly waiting for Return

• Less rights than convicted criminals

European Parliament

16 February 2005

Access is difficult, often impossible, especially for media.

European Parliament

16 February 2005

“Detention” is depriving persons from their liberty of movement, although they are not criminals.

Detention Problems

• No transparency : Vocabulary, Statistics, Costs

• No access for: family members medical, pastoral care

lawyers, NGOs, Press • No legal remedy, long duration • Psychological damage

Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) – Europe

JRS in Europe trains staff working in detention centres

Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) – Europe

JRS in Europe visits detainees and listens to them

Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) – Europe

JRS in Europe cares for detainees

JRS-Europe: Brussels Office

• Lobbies European Union on Asylum Policy

JRS Europe

1. Detention2. Destitution3. Externalisation

4. Migration and Development5. Young Journalists6. Pedro Arrupe Award

Destitution

• Extreme poverty of Foreigners (often rejected asylum seekers) who cannot return

• Direct Service: meals, beds(Rome, Catania, London, Bucharest)

• Advocacy:

- to be included in Integration programs,

- Human Rights independent of Status

JRS Europe

1. Detention2. Destitution3. Externalisation

4. Migration and Development5. Young Journalists6. Pedro Arrupe Award

Externalization

EU policy exported to neighboring countries and to countries far away

• Morocco• Ukraine• Croatia• Macedonia

• In Brussels: information and advocacy

C. JRS Europe office Brussels

1. Detention

2. Destitution

3. Externalization

4. Migration and Development

5. Young Journalists

6. Pedro Arrupe Award

Migration and Development

• Debate is dominated by Labour Migration

• Attention for Forced Migrants

• who can be a benefit for the host country

• and beneficial when returning

f.i. when trained by JRS

Migration and Development

• In cooperation with JRS other continents

• Advocate cooperating with UNHCR

• Keep forced migrants on the agenda

mainly in European Institutions

and in United Nations

JRS Europe office in Brussels

1. Detention

2. Destitution

3. Externalisation

4. Migration and Development

5. Young Journalists

6. Pedro Arrupe Award

Young Journalists

Student Journalist Prize

• Student (or 1 year out of University)

• Write 1200 words on Refugees

• 1st Prize: trip to Malawi

• Spring 2008

JRS Europe office in Brussels

1. Detention

2. Destitution

3. Externalisation

4. Migration and Development

5. Young Journalists

6. Pedro Arrupe Award

The winners under 12 : Portugal sculpture

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The Pedro Arrupe Award is an educational project about refugees that has been run in schools in 12 European countries.

Prize Giving CeremonyEuropean Parliament 23.6.2005 winners Barcelona and Slovakia

Pedro Arrupe Award 2007

• Winners in the European Parliament

from * Slovakia * Poland

Pedro Arrupe Award 2007

• 35 teachers of Jesuit Schools

• 12 countries

• June in the EP

D. JRS Europe

about the organisation

• How resources are used

• Staff numbers

• 3 remarks

• JRS and provincials

JRS Europe Resources used

.

time, money, staff

Accompany & Serve

Advocacy Coordi-nation Indivi-

dualsPublic, SJ Church

Policy makers

Country

offices

70 % 10 10 5 5 %

Regional

office

Brussels

- - 10 55 35 %

Staff JRS Europe

SJ prof volnt*

SVN 1 1 8

HIB 0 5 4Maroc 1 1*

SWE 1 0 5

ROM 2 3 2

BEL 2 2 4

FR 1* 1 6

SJ prof volnt*

Por 0 10 10

Ita 1 38 200

GER 2* 1 4

UK 2 6 8

Cro+ 0 5 6

MAL 3* 7 5

Eur 2 5 2

JRS-Europe three remarks

• Not much emergency response - Balkans, Morocco, Turkey, Middle East

• Common Topics - Detention, Destitution= Iraqis, Dublin Returns

• Policy decisions shift to Brussels- common EU asylum policy, Frontex

JRS Europe – SJ provincials

• Autonomy of each SJ province

• JRS is part of province’s social apostolate

• JRS part of province planning

> national JRS part of Province plan

> greater JRS part of Province plan

• Annual visitation JRS, including lay staff,

by provincial

• To Accompany• To Serve• To Defend forced migrants

Le Père Arrupe

• le bien le plus universel, • l’urgence toujours plus

grande, • la difficulté et la complexité

du problème humain en cause• et l’absence d’autres ouvriers

pour répondre à ce besoin (cf Const. VII, n. 523)

Le Père Arrupe

….. l’aide attendue de nous n’est pas seulement matérielle;

la Compagnie est surtout appelée à rendre un service humain, éducatif, spirituel.

Benedict XVI: Deus Caritas Est

20 … within the community of believers there can never be room for a poverty that denies anyone what is needed for a dignified life. The Church cannot and must not remain on the side lines in the fight for justice.

• She has to play her part through rational argument and she has to reawaken the spiritual energy without which justice, which always demands sacrifice, cannot prevail and prosper.