7 Working together to end immigration detention: a collection of noteworthy practices the ‘hotspot approach’ also implemented in Italy This briefing focuses on noteworthy practices and Greece in recent years. Recent EU legislative undertaken and promoted by either civil society reforms on return and asylum risk further multiplying organisations, governments or local authorities along the grounds and situations in which detention can specific thematic lines that correspond with three be applied, particularly at the EU’s external borders.9 objectives of advocacy or policy actions: Against this background, a number of actors at 1. Shining a light on detention centres and 8 advancing migrants’ rights in detention international, European and national levels are advocating to end administrative detention. To 2. Ending the immigration detention of children this end, efforts are made to expose the reality of 3. Implementing community-based models instead what happens inside detention centres, as well as of coercive measures to gain consensus over alternative ways of carrying out immigration procedures that do not involve deprivation of liberty. 8 Brandariz J. A. and Fernandez-Bessa C., 2021, Coronavirus and Immigration Detention in Europe: the Short Summer of abolitionism?, Social Sciences. 9 PICUM, 2020, More detention, fewer safeguards. How the new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum creates new loopholes to ignore human rights obligations; PICUM, 2022, How is detention considered in the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum.