Useful websites and information on detention in Europe and in the world :

International Detention Coalition - IDC

No one is illegal [UK]

ASGI - Associazione per gli studi giuridici sull'immigrazione [IT]



Documents about migrant's detention in Europe : 

French

Monitor and filter: the detention centers serving European migration policies - Claire Rodier, Mondialisation, migrations, droits de l'homme, Bruylant, Bruxelles, 2007

Camps for foreigners since 1938 : continuity and adaptation - Olivier Clochard, Yvan Gastaut and Ralph Schor, Revue européenne des migrations internationales, vol. 20 - n° 20/2004

Between control and emergency - Nicolas Fischer, Terra, February 2007

Prison and detention : the politics of foreigners’ detention - Carolina Boe, Jérôme Martinez, Ecorev. Revue critique d’écologie politique, 19 January 2009

From disciplinary to safe : from prison to closed center - Mathieu Bietlot, Multitudes, n° 11, Winter 2003

Tunisia between transit and immigration : immigration policy and reception conditions for African migrants in Tunis - Hassen Boubakri and Sylvie Mazzella, Autrepart, n° 36, 2005


English

The privatization of immigration detention : towards a global view - Michael Flynn and Cecilia Cannon, Global Detention Project, September 2009

Civil Society Report on the Detention of Vulnerable Asylum Seekers and Irregular Migrants in the European Union (The DEVAS Project) - Jesuit Refuggee Service

JRS Europe Policy Position on Alternatives to Detention - Jesuit Refugee Service, October 2012