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“Selective, punitive and symbolic”: the state of administrative detention in Italy

September 4, 2020 - Paola Petrucco

For our column on alternatives to detention, Paola Petrucco interviewed Giulia Fabini, Adjunct Professor and Research Fellow at the University of Bologna, and Assistant Editor at the European Journal of Criminology. Here is what she told us about the “selective, punitive and symbolic nature of administrative detention in Italy”.

Migrant detention in Covid-19 times

July 20, 2020 - Flaminia Delle Cese

What is the point of holding foreign nationals in immigration detention centres at a time when the limitation of international mobility prevents returns? Does it make sense to deprive of their personal liberty individuals who have not committed a crime and who in 50% of cases will be released from detention centres as irregular migrants? What sense is there in providing for quarantine periods on ships for persons landed on the Italian coasts, when the thousands of people arriving by air or across land borders are no longer obliged to undergo this measure? With its dossier, the Italian Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights aims to demonstrate the ineffectiveness, inutility and huge cost - in human and economic terms - of places of detention for foreigners.

Migrants’ detention will not stop with the pandemic

May 27, 2020 - Giacomo Zandonini

Detention of irregular migrants is still the main instrument used to track down and repatriate unwelcome people, even when - like during a pandemic - this is not allowed. Giacomo Zandonini tells us how the Coronavirus emergency in Europe is leaving migrants’ detention unchanged.

Immigration detention: the UK moves towards the development of alternatives

May 14, 2020 - Paola Petrucco

Immigration detention has been a key factor in the immigration governance of the United Kingdom, as well as one of the largest and most scrutinised immigration detention systems in Europe.

“Selective, punitive and symbolic”: the state of administrative detention in Italy

Migrant detention in Covid-19 times

Migrants’ detention will not stop with the pandemic

Immigration detention: the UK moves towards the development of alternatives

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