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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ......................................................................................................... 1
Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 3
The project ..................................................................................................................................... 3
Preliminary Findings .................................................................................................................. 5
Access to the Territory and Reception ...................................................................................... 7
Push-backs/Refoulement.......................................................................................................... 8
Pre-RIC Detention ......................................................................................................................10
Detention and other means of restriction .............................................................................. 15
Excessive use of detention in Evros .....................................................................................16
Discriminatory detention on the islands...........................................................................17
Conditions of Detention ...........................................................................................................18
Geographical restriction..........................................................................................................20
Gaps in Reception .................................................................................................................... 24
Context of Reception .................................................................................................................24
Registration..................................................................................................................................25
Provision of Information .........................................................................................................25
Vulnerability Screening/Assessment .................................................................................28
Conditions at the RICs ............................................................................................................. 32
RIC of Moria: Inhumanity at its lowest ...............................................................................32
RIC of Kos: improved but still inadequate ........................................................................34
RIC at Fylakio, Evros: nothing can beautify detention ..................................................36
Effects of Reception ............................................................................................................. 38
Alone and Unattended ..............................................................................................................38
Alone and Criminalized ...........................................................................................................42
Escape as the last solution ......................................................................................................44
The case of Patra: the re-emergence of an exit-point to Europe ................................ 47
Concluding remarks ................................................................................................................. 52
Recommendations ................................................................................................................... 58
Access to (first-line) Reception and Asylum .................................................................................59
Detention and other types of restrictions ....................................................................................60
First reception and living conditions .............................................................................................61
Reference List .......................................................................................................................... 63
Annex I (list of interviews/region) ........................................................................................... 74
Annex II (List of Abbreviations) ............................................................................................... 76
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