During the four-year period 2016-2019, more than 4.6 million men, women, and children fled or otherwise departed Venezuela because of burgeoning political and economic crises. According to the UNHCR, some 4,000 and 5,000 Venezuelan nationals were leaving the country every day, mainly travelling on foot to neighbouring countries like Colombia, Peru, or Ecuador; thousands of […]
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Andorra: Covid-19 and Detention
The tiny country of Andorra, located in the Pyrenees between France and Spain, has one of the highest percentages of international migrants in the world, which as of 2017 accounted for more than 50 percent of the country’s population of some 80,000. To date, the GDP has not identified any dedicated immigration removal facilities, and […]
Chile Immigration Detention Data Profile (2020)
Chile Detention Data (2020) The latest detention-related data from Chile, including immigration and detention-related statistics, domestic laws and policies, international law, and institutional indicators. View the Chile Detention Data Profile Related Reading: Chile: Country Page Chile: COVID-19 Updates Working Paper: Immigration Detention Through the Lens of International Human Rights: Lessons from South America […]
Chile: Covid-19 and Detention
Responding to the Global Detention Project’s Covid-19 survey, a government official, verified by the GDP, reported that in Chile, immigration detention is solely used to conduct deportations of administrative or criminal detainees. Faced with border closures due to the Covid-19 crisis, the governmental source said that they were not aware of any deportations taking place […]
Costa Rica Immigration Detention Data Profile (2020)
Costa Rica Detention Data (2020) The latest detention-related data from Costa Rica, including immigration and detention-related statistics, domestic laws and policies, international law, and institutional indicators. View the Costa Rica Detention Data Profile Related Reading: Costa Rica: Country Page Report: Immigration Detention in Costa Rica (2015) Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee: Costa Rica […]
Costa Rica: Covid-19 and Detention
Responding to the Global Detention Project’s Covid-19 survey, Costa Rica’s immigration authority (Dirección General de Migración y Extranjería) reported that during the Covid-19 crisis, immigration police (Dirección de la Policía Profesional de Migración) put in place distinct measures for non-citizens apprehended for administrative reasons. Instead of extending detention measures during the pandemic, non-citizens were required […]
Peru Immigration Detention Data Profile (2020)
Peru Detention Data (2020) The latest detention-related data from Peru, including immigration and detention-related statistics, domestic laws and policies, international law, and institutional indicators. View the Peru Detention Data Profile Related Reading: Peru: Country Page Peru: COVID-19 Updates Immigration Detention through the Lens of International Human Rights: Lessons from South America Peru: International Law […]
Peru: Covid-19 and Detention
Peru’s Ombudsman’s office (Defensoría del Pueblo), responding to the Global Detention Project’s Covid-19 survey, stated that to their knowledge, no one had been detained for migration reasons during the pandemic. They also noted that there is no formal immigration detention estate in the country. After the declaration of the state of emergency in the country, […]
Colombia Immigration Detention Data Profile (2020)
Colombia Detention Data (2020) The latest detention-related data from Colombia, including immigration and detention-related statistics, domestic laws and policies, international law, and institutional indicators. View the Colombia Detention Data Profile Related Reading: Colombia: Country Page Colombia: COVID-19 Updates Working Paper: Immigration Detention Through the Lens of International Human Rights: Lessons from South America […]
Colombia: Covid-19 and Detention
According to the Colombian Ministry of Health, as of 23 June, Colombia had 73,572 cases of Covid-19 and 2,404 deaths related to the disease. As reported by CNN, Venezuelan migrant workers, who left the country when its economy collapsed, are now returning as Covid-19 cases surge across Latin America. The Colombia-Venezuela border crossing has been […]
