The solidarity's principle in the government of migration between criminalization and sustainability

During the presentation of report “Punishing compassion: solidarity on trial in fortress Europe” (2020), Amnesty International asked European governments to stop the criminalization of human rights defenders in the UE and to introduce a system of safe and regular human mobility. The vague dispositions of so-called “Facilitators Package” (Council Directive 2002/90/EC), born in European law to oppose to trafficking in human beings, has contributed to produce the effect of “criminalization of solidarity”, for humanitarian conducts without profit purposes, which cannot be considered as example of migrants’ smuggling. It takes a new reform of these dispositions, to forbid States from criminalizing humanitarian assistance activities at sea. The migration issue has always been seen as an emergency of landings and invasions, as a fight against the illegality of migrants, used to carry a sovereignist vision, full of xenophobic and racist contents. This management of migration is very far from the principles of sustainable development and other fundamental values of European Union, which proposes an integrated approach between search and rescue programs and reception and integration national ones. The emergency perspective of European dispositions must be suppressed in the place of an idea of an orderly, safe, regular migration, as stated in Goal 10, Target 7 of the UN 2030 Agenda and specified in the Global Compact for Migration, which consider migrants and refuges of growing wealth for national economy, to allow to EU to have a strategic role in promoting a debate on "sustainable" immigration, to not be restrained in contemporary nationalist and populist visions.