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Briefing paper

Detention as the Default: How Greece, with the support of the EU, is generalizing administrative detention of migrants

16/11/2021

1 documents

31 pages long

Languages: English

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Putting migrants and asylum seekers into detention for administrative reasons is a common practice in Greece, despite this policy contravening human rights. Greek authorities are using detention and the new EU-funded closed compounds as a way to discourage people from seeking asylum in Europe. Detention, as outlined in Greek law, should only be used as […]

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Briefing paper

The Real Common Interest: The converging EU and North African migration agendas – where do people’s interests come in?

22/10/2020

2 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English, French

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For too long the EU’s migration policies have ignored the priorities of the countries it partners with for the sake of its own border security and domestic priorities. These have permeated the domestic migration and asylum policies of the Maghreb countries it supports, including Tunisia and Morocco, in a convergence of national interests of states, […]

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Media briefing

Vulnerable and abandoned: How the Greek reception system is failing to protect the most vulnerable people seeking asylum

09/01/2019

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

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Greece and its EU partners are failing pregnant women, unaccompanied children, victims of torture or sexual violence and other vulnerable people who seek protection in Europe. These people are being put at risk by flawed processes and chronic understaffing in EU ‘hotspot’ camps on the Greek islands. They do not receive adequate support from the […]

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Briefing paper

Nowhere But Out: The failure of France and Italy to help refugees and other migrants stranded at the border in Ventimiglia

15/06/2018

3 documents

22 pages long

Languages: English, French, Italian

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In Ventimiglia, near the border between Italy and France, refugees and other migrants are living rough, without access to the most basic services. Women, men and children are ‘pushed’ out of the Italian asylum system, which often fails to meet their most basic needs for safety, information and education. Across the border, the French police […]

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Research report

Safe but Not Settled: The impact of family separation on refugees in the UK

31/01/2018

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

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Refugees in the UK often find themselves separated from their families by their brutal experiences of conflict and persecution, just at the time when they need each other the most. This separation can drag on for years or sometimes indefinitely because of the UK’s restrictive rules on refugee family reunion. This joint report by the […]

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Media briefing

EU hotspots spread fear and doubt

18/04/2016

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

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On 18 April 2015, a shipwreck in the Central Mediterranean caused the deaths of an estimated 800 people seeking to reach Italy. The EU responded to the tragedy by calling the first of many emergency summits and speeding up the issuance of the EU Agenda on Migration. A package of measures, meant to increase Europe’s […]

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Briefing note

A Safe Haven? Britain’s role in protecting people on the move

14/04/2016

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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Across Europe, people who have fled human rights violations, conflict, violence and hardship are living in inhumane conditions, and thousands have drowned trying to reach the continent. While the UK government has been a leader in providing assistance to countries hosting large numbers of refugees, it has fallen short of its moral responsibility to provide […]

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Detention as the Default: How Greece, with the support of the EU, is generalizing administrative detention of migrants

The Real Common Interest: The converging EU and North African migration agendas – where do people’s interests come in?

Vulnerable and abandoned: How the Greek reception system is failing to protect the most vulnerable people seeking asylum

Nowhere But Out: The failure of France and Italy to help refugees and other migrants stranded at the border in Ventimiglia

Safe but Not Settled: The impact of family separation on refugees in the UK

EU hotspots spread fear and doubt

A Safe Haven? Britain’s role in protecting people on the move