Dit rapport van het Federaal Migratiecentrum Myria analyseert het fenomeen van transitmigratie naar het Verenigd Koninkrijk in België. Myria pleit voor een duidelijker beleid in dit domein, met respect voor de fundamentele rechten van transitmigranten.

Op een persconferentie bij de scheepvaartpolitie in Oostende, heeft Minister van Justitie, Vincent Van Quickenborne, gezegd dat de krachtige aanpak van mensensmokkelaars tot 90% daling in transitmigranten naar VK leidt.

On 10 September, the Belgian Minister of Security and the Interior and the State Secretary for Asylum Policy and Migration presented a 9-point action plan on the fight against irregular transit migration.

Today, the Belgian Minister of Home Affairs, the Belgian State Secretary for Asylum Policy and Migration met with the British Home Secretary in London to discuss the issue of transit migration.

In the summer of 2017, more and more transit migrants, who wish to go to the UK, were staying in the Maximilian park in Brussels. The Belgian government did not want this park to become ‘a new Calais’. A number of transit migrants were intercepted and detained. Because a lot of them were presumed Sudanese, a Sudanese delegation was invited to come to Belgium for identification. Left-wing politicians and NGOs stressed that the Sudanese regime’s human rights record is particularly worrying. Campaigns were organised to better inform the transit migrants. On 04.10.2017 these issues were debated in the Belgian Parliament.