Snapshots from the Borders - Participatory investigation: Tenerife
Date
2019Abstract
«Snapshots From The Borders» is a 3-years project, co-funded
by the European Union and run by 36 partners, border local
authorities and civil society organisations, led by the Lampedusa
and Linosa municipality. The main general objective of the project
is the improvement of the critical understanding of European and
local decision and law makers, civil servants, opinion leaders, public
opinion and citizens about the topic of migration flows towards
European borders. Our aim is strengthening a new horizontal,
active network of cities and towns directly facing migration flows
at EU borders, as a way to promote more and more effective policy
coherence at all levels. The final perspective and framework is to
achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals.
This report has been carried out through the analysis of secondary
statistical data sources available at the national and local levels;
the results of different empirical investigations undertaken by the
Immigration Observatory of Tenerife in the last 15 years; and 23
semi-structured interviews with university experts, representatives
from immigrant associations, professionals from NGOs, immigrants
and their children, political representatives, technicians from the
local governments, and participants in social movements linked to
the defence of human rights. All the interviews have been recorded
on video and a script with questions has been used, based on this
report’s structure, but with the questions adapted to the profiles
of each person interviewed.