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
.
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.