Romania Detention Data (2020) The latest detention-related data from Romania, including immigration and detention-related statistics, domestic laws and policies, international law, and institutional indicators. View the Romania Detention Data Profile Related Reading: Romania: Country Page Report: Immigration Detention in Romania: With a Little Help from the EU (2019) Submission to the Working Group on Discrimination […]
Luxembourg Immigration Detention Data Profile (2020)
Luxembourg Detention Data (2020) The latest detention-related data from Luxembourg, including immigration and detention-related statistics, domestic laws and policies, international law, and institutional indicators. View the Luxembourg Detention Data Profile Related Reading: Luxembourg: Country Page Luxembourg: COVID-19 Updates Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child: Luxembourg Report: Immigration Detention in Luxembourg: […]
Romania: Covid-19 and Detention
Romania’s National Preventive Mechanism, the People’s Advocate, requested information from the Interior Ministry’s General Inspectorate for Immigration (IGI) to provide answers to the Global Detention Projet’s Covid-19 survey. Based on information it received from the IGI, the People’s Advocate reported that during the state of emergency, the right of persons to request international protection was […]
Luxembourg: Covid-19 and Detention
Responding to the Global Detention Project’s Covid-19 survey, Luxembourg’s European Migration Network (EMN) contact point, the University of Luxembourg, reported that a moratorium on new immigration detention orders had been established, mainly as returns were no longer possible. EMN Luxembourg said that there had not been any cases of Covid-19 within the Findel Detention Centre […]
France: Covid-19 and Detention
France’s contact point for the European Migration Network (EMN), the Direction Générale des Étrangers en France (DGEF), has informed the Global Detention Project that it is not able to answer our Covid-19 survey questions. The GDP had initially written to the DGEF/EMN on 13 May 2020, requesting information on immigration detention and measures taken by […]
Israel Immigration Detention Data Profile (2020)
Israel Detention Data (2020) The latest detention-related data from Israel, including immigration and detention-related statistics, domestic laws and policies, international law, and institutional indicators. View the Israel Detention Data Profile Related Reading: Israel: Country Page Israel: Detention Centres Israel: COVID-19 Updates […]
Sweden Immigration Detention Data Profile (2020)
Sweden Detention Data (2020) The latest detention-related data from Sweden, including immigration and detention-related statistics, domestic laws and policies, international law, and institutional indicators. View the Sweden Detention Data Profile Related Reading: Sweden: Country Page Special Report: Harm Reduction in Immigration Detention Report: Immigration Detention in Sweden – Increasing Restrictions and Deportations, Growing Civil Society […]
Sweden: Covid-19 and Detention
Responding to the Global Detention Project’s Covid-19 survey, the Swedish Migration Board (Migrationsverket), which also acts as the country’s European Migration Network contact, reported that no moratorium on new immigration detention orders had been established in response to the Covid-19 crisis and that such a measure was not being considered. In addition, the Migration Board […]
Spain: Covid-19 and Detention
Responding to the Global Detention Project’s Covid-19 survey, the Permanent Observatory for Immigration, part of the Ministry of Labour and Immigration, and acting as European Migration Network (EMN) contact, reported that no moratorium on new immigration detention orders was established, but that immigration detention is no longer justifiable in law as there are no reasonable […]
Germany: Covid-19 and Detention
Observers have repeatedly raised concerns during the pandemic regarding conditions inside reception facilities in Germany, with several centres witnessing Covid-19 outbreaks and others subjecting refugees and asylum seekers to dangerous living conditions (see 10 June update). Recently, volunteers, social workers, and NGOs have warned of the dire living conditions experienced by non-nationals in Munich’s network […]
