Statement to the Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries Panel on “PMSCs in places of deprivation of liberty and their impact on human rights” Michael Flynn, Global Detention Project 27 April 2017 I am the Director of the Global Detention Project, a research center based in Geneva that documents the use of detention […]
Netherlands
Immigration Detention in the Netherlands
In contrast to many of its European neighbours, the Netherlands has sharply reduced its immigration detention capacity as a result of decreasing numbers of immigration detainees. Some observers argue that these decreases are in part due to the fact that the government “takes the obligation to consider alternatives more seriously” than it did before the […]
Capitalism and Immigration Control: What Political Economy Reveals about the Growth of Detention Systems: GDP Working Paper #16
Assessments of the political economy of detention point to a key challenge that is common to countries across the globe: how economic insecurities of host population’s translate into xenophobia and ethno-nationalist demands for more deportations, detentions, and walls. […]
Simpson Bay Remand Centre
(from report of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture 2014 visit to SINT MAARTEN and Caribbean parts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands) b. Simpson Bay Remand Centre. (Read full CPT report)244. Simpson Bay was built as an immigration detention centre and a Judicial Permission of 25November 2011 and signed by the Minister […]
Centro Dakota Immigration Detention Facility (from report of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture 2014 visit to Aruba and Caribbean parts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)
B. Centro Dakota Immigration Detention Facility (read full CPT report) 67. In the course of the 2014 visit, the delegation carried out a targeted visit to the Centro Dakota immigration detention facility. Foreign nationals held under aliens legislation have been detained at this facility since February 2013. Immigration detention on Aruba falls under the responsibility […]
Dutch Custodial Institutions Agency – Access to Information Request, 24.12.2013
The Dutch Custodial Institutions Agency’s official response to an information request submitted by the Global Detention Project and Access Info Europe in 2013 as part of a joint project to map access to migration-related detention data in several dozen countries in Europe and North America. The results of the investigation were reported in the joint […]
