The Global Detention Project (GDP) is a research initiative that tracks the use of detention in
response to global migration. Based at the Graduate Global Migration Centre in Geneva,
Switzerland, the GDP’s aims include: (1) providing researchers, advocates, and journalists with a
measurable and regularly updated baseline for analysing the growth and evolution of detention
practices and policies; (2) encouraging scholarship in this field of immigration studies; and (3)
facilitating accountability and transparency in the treatment of detainees.
“Immigration Detention in Greece”
By Izabella Majcher and Michael Flynn
April 2014
Global Detention Project
Global Migration Centre
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Rue de Lausanne 132
P.O. Box 136
CH – 1211 Geneva 21
Switzerland
Tel: + 41 22 908 4556
http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/
The Global Detention Project would like to thank Danai Angeli of the Hellenic Foundation for
European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) for her comments on an early draft of this profile. Any
errors in the profile are those of the GDP.
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