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1 results foundAuthor: Flynn, Michael Title: Immigration Detention in Switzerland; A Global Detention Project Special Report Summary: This Global Detention Project special report is meant to serve as an overview of and contribute substantively to our current state of knowledge of the Swiss immigration detention estate. In line with the objectives of the GDP, an important aim of the paper is to facilitate transparency with respect to this practice by carefully documenting where detention centres are located, the grounds for which people can be held at these facilities, and the conditions that prevail in some of them. It assesses the various situations that different kinds of migrants confront when they are deprived of their liberty, highlights vulnerabilities faced by particular categories of detainees, and recounts the findings of both national and international rights groups who have investigated Swiss detention practices. Ultimately, the GDP hopes that this report can serve as the basis for a more informed public debate—both in and outside Switzerland—about a practice whose recent growth throughout Europe and elsewhere in the world is matched only by its increasing notoriety. The report is divided into two main sections: a section on policy, which discusses key features of Swiss immigration detention practices, including the reasons people can be detained, lengths of detention, procedural guarantees provided in law, and issues related to vulnerable groups like children and asylum seekers; and a section on detention infrastructure, which details the types of facilities Switzerland uses to confine people for immigration-related reasons and reviews the assessments of these facilities produced by civil society actors and international organizations. The paper concludes with a brief evaluation of how Swiss practices compare to those of its neighbours. Details: Geneva: Global Detention Project, Programme for the Study of Global Migration Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, 2011. 44p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed October 20, 2011 at: http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/fileadmin/publications/GDP_Swiss_detention_report.pdf Year: 2011 Country: Switzerland URL: http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/fileadmin/publications/GDP_Swiss_detention_report.pdf Shelf Number: 123069 Keywords: Illegal Immigrants (Switzerland)Immigrant DetentionImmigration |