The hidden face of Immigrant Detetion Camps in Europe
Since the 1990s, detention has become one of the main tools to manage migrant populations in Europe and beyond. The only reason for such deprivation of liberty is the failure to comply with – generally unjust – rules on border crossing and/or stay. Detention is a permanent source of violation of migrants’ rights. Behind the stated aim of streamlining the management of migratory flows, the institutionalisation of migrant detention leads to the criminalisation of those considered undesirable,
thereby fuelling racism and xenophobia.