The deals with #Switzerland and #ICMPD materialise shortly after #Algeria had abandoned its reluctance in formal anti-migration cooperation with European states. In January, Algiers had already signed a police protocol with #Italy and,in recent years, expanded police cooperation with #Germany 5/

Part of the Algeria-ICMPD cooperation appears to be #Algeria-s participation in #ICMPD-s regional Malta-based Training Institute on how to suppress migration movement. According to ICMPD, Algerian officials expressed commitment to support the institute and get involved 4/ https://www.icmpd.org/news/icmpd-director-general-and-deputy-dg-meet-with-algeria-delegation-to-strengthen-cooperation-on-migration-governance-in-the-mediterranean

Only days ago, #ICMPD-s General Director Michael #Spindelegger met with an #Algeria-n delegation in #Malta to kick off the Steering Committee of the Algeria-ICMPD cooperation, an anti-migration cooperation scheme funded by #Denmark, the #Netherlands and #Switzerland 3/ https://www.icmpd.org/news/icmpd-director-general-and-deputy-dg-meet-with-algeria-delegation-to-strengthen-cooperation-on-migration-governance-in-the-mediterranean

The deal was signed in Algiers by both states police chiefs and attended by #Algeria-s Minister of Interior and the Swiss Minister of Justice and Police. In recent years, Bern expressed content regarding Algiers' "improved cooperation" on forced returns 2/ https://ftdes.net/en/suppression-of-movement-migration-control-manufactured-precarity-and-racialised-border-regimes-in-post-hirak-algeria-in-the-name-of-sovereignty-at-the-service-of-rent-accumulation/

This report is also available in Arabic. A French version will follow soon @FT_DES 12/ https://ftdes.net/ar/suppression-of-movement-migration-control-manufactured-precarity-and-racialised-border-regimes-in-post-hirak-algeria-in-the-name-of-sovereignty-at-the-service-of-rent-accumulation/

This report aims at providing a mapping of the state’scrackdowns against harraga, the authorities’ retention infrastructure, the security services’ deportation practices, and Algeria’s engagement with foreign governments regarding the suppression of movement @FT_DES 11/ https://ftdes.net/en/suppression-of-movement-migration-control-manufactured-precarity-and-racialised-border-regimes-in-post-hirak-algeria-in-the-name-of-sovereignty-at-the-service-of-rent-accumulation/

Migration control has turned into an ever-present subject of public discourses and government interventions across northern Africa. Corresponding matters in Algeria, however, remain strongly unreported 10/ https://ftdes.net/en/suppression-of-movement-migration-control-manufactured-precarity-and-racialised-border-regimes-in-post-hirak-algeria-in-the-name-of-sovereignty-at-the-service-of-rent-accumulation/

The Algerian government nourishes the country’s alienation from its African neighbors by fueling racism, exploitation and the continuation of intermediary repression, helped along by EU agencies, EU governments, UN-affiliated bodies and neighboring states 9/ https://ftdes.net/en/suppression-of-movement-migration-control-manufactured-precarity-and-racialised-border-regimes-in-post-hirak-algeria-in-the-name-of-sovereignty-at-the-service-of-rent-accumulation/

Today, the international solidarity occasionally vocalised by the #Algeria-n state is a conditional and selective one that is limited by the regime’s internal tug-of-war over access to hydrocarbon revenues and, at best, the “anti-imperialist strategies” of foreign policy 8/ https://ftdes.net/en/suppression-of-movement-migration-control-manufactured-precarity-and-racialised-border-regimes-in-post-hirak-algeria-in-the-name-of-sovereignty-at-the-service-of-rent-accumulation/

As of today, however, only traces of this once staunch alignment with the Global South remain. Yet the state maintains a political imagery and foreign policy nurtured by the spirit of the post-colonial #Algeria of the 1960s and 70s 7/ https://ftdes.net/en/suppression-of-movement-migration-control-manufactured-precarity-and-racialised-border-regimes-in-post-hirak-algeria-in-the-name-of-sovereignty-at-the-service-of-rent-accumulation/