At a table moderated by lawyer Patricia Fern\u00e1ndez Vicens, from the Asociaci\u00f3n Coordinadora de Barrios, Marisa Amaro was present at the event telematically together with Teo Bondyale, secretary of the Federation of African Associations in the Canary Islands (FAAC). Both speakers insisted on the obligation to guarantee dignified accompaniment for migrants and listed the different violations they have witnessed. They denounced the fact that the process of reception puts people in total isolation. uncertainty<\/strong>, They also point out that they do not receive any information about when they will be able to leave the reception facilities; they also point to shortcomings in the health care<\/strong> and a total lack of guidance on the protocols and standards to be followed in detention centres. <\/p>\n\n\n\n On how to ensure a accompaniment<\/strong> Marisa Amaro points out that it is necessary to work in a holistic manner. In her experience, she says, she has seen that there are some demands that can be verbalised and others that cannot. In order to reach the latter, it is necessary to generate a climate of trust, in which people can feel listened to, cared for and accompanied. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have to have the political will to welcome them as human beings. Not as a thing, not as a nuisance. Not as something that bothers me and we have to welcome them because they are looking at us.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n For his part, Teo Bondyale stressed the need to urgent<\/strong> to reorient the institutional understanding of what is meant by the term \u201c.\u201cwelcome<\/strong>\u201dThe report also states that, far from being interpreted as a right, it is used as a charitable measure, which does not guarantee the health, let alone the recognition of people on the move. As he points out, \u201creception has nothing to do with collection. If you are going to take in someone, you have to know where you are going to keep them. If you are going to \u00abpick up\u00bb, it doesn't matter\u201d. For the secretary of FAAC, there is a total dehumanisation<\/strong> of people trying to cross the Southern Border: \u201cWe have to have the political will to welcome them as human beings. Not as a thing, not as a nuisance. Not as something that bothers me and we should welcome them because they are looking at us\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n To conclude, the three speakers insisted on the need to guarantee the right to migrate and, with this, to receive a dignified, comprehensive, hospitable and humane reception. In this respect, Patricia Fern\u00e1ndez concluded that it is important to demand answers from the authorities, so that \u201cnever again will we have people in facilities financed with public money who we do not know if they are alive or dead\u201d. For the lawyer, it is important to move towards policies that guarantee the right to citizenship: \u201cto be and to form part of the society in which you live and to which you are called to belong\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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