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.

Author; Liz Fekete

Publisher ; Institute of Race Relations IRR

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