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The deportation machine: Europe, asylum and human rights

By Liz Fekete

Citing over 200 detailed case studies, The deportation machine: Europe, asylum and human rights shows how opportunist political campaigning puts the lives of asylum seekers at risk.

The research highlights how target-driven deportation policies are:

institutionalising brutality by legitimising the use of force in removals often in violation of domestic law;
removing protection from refugees fleeing conflict and violating humanitarian law intended to protect the traumatised and severely ill;
undermining the UN Convention and the Rights of the Child which requires that child's best interests be paramount in executive and judicial decisions and actions;
leading to overcrowding, poor and unsanitary conditions in detention centres.

The Deportation Machine is issue no. 51 of the IRR European Race Bulletin. To order The Deportation Machine, at £10, please select the shopping basket icon at the top right of the page. Unfunded community groups can email info@irr.org.uk to request a free electronic copy as a pdf file.

The Institute of Race Relations is precluded from expressing a corporate view: any opinions expressed are therefore those of the authors.

The deportation machine: Europe, asylum and human rights

By Liz Fekete

Citing over 200 detailed case studies, The deportation machine: Europe, asylum and human rights shows how opportunist political campaigning puts the lives of asylum seekers at risk.

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