Who we are

The Transnational Migrant Platform-Europe (TMP-E) is a platform set up in 2008 by self-organisations of Migrant and Refugee people and communities from several countries in Europe. Many organisations had a track record of working together on specific campaigns and in 2008 jointly responded to the then proclaimed policy of ‘zero tolerance’ for migrants and refugees – pushed as an EU policy by President Sarkozy – when France took the presidency of the EU Council.  TMP-E aimed to resist this and affirm the human rights of all and to also address it in the global context which was already manifesting the trend of setting aside the United Nations Conventions and binding obligations on states to protect the human rights of migrant and refugee peoples.

In TMP-E’s perspective, migration has always been, and will always be, a part of a shared human history and development. The current large movement of migrant and refugee peoples is part of peoples’ strategy to live and to achieve the “inalienable human right to human development” and to resist the inequality and repression inherent in global capitalism and neocolonialism and forced displacement resulting from economic globalization, extractivism, climate change, political persecution, war and genocide. 

Mission and Vision

Migrant and refugee peoples are not mere recipients of policy provisions or solidarity. In their reclaiming of the “inalienable human right to human development” they are taking the construction and defense of their rights in their own hands – not only risking their lives to cross seas, mountains and deserts, but also to demonstrate their capacity to self-organize with a cross community perspective, providing analysis and developing alternatives to the current situation of multiple inter-related crises.

Within this context – where the EU deliberative migration policy relegates migrant and refugee peoples – some to “sites without rights” and others to “sites with rights” and criminalizes solidarity – the mission of TMP-E is to facilitate the self-organisation of migrants and refugees as protagonists of their future. TMP-E works in alliance with organisations of migrant and refugee people, social movements, other civil society networks and engaged academe to defend their human rights and contribute to moving from a “Fortress” approach – closing borders and legal pathways,  institutionalising racism, inequality and injustice in Europe – towards an international regime of justice and human rights for all.