Abstract
A hallmark of all three countries included in the Central Europe chapter—the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia—is that official rhetoric and public attitudes towards undocumented migrants and asylum seekers have grown increasingly hostile even as the numbers of arrivals have plummeted across the region. This post “crisis” mood also pervades the countries’ evolving immigration control policies and detention practices. All three countries have adopted the maximum 18 months detention limit provided in the European Union (EU) Returns Directive, which is intended to serve as a ceiling and not an obligation (other EU countries, including Spain and France, have opted for much lower detention limits). In practice, the average detention time in all three countries appears to be less than 80 days. Another distinct feature of the policies in these countries is that they all require detainees to pay for their own detention. This appears to be a harsher policy than that applied to prisoners in penal institutions and may contravene obligations under international human rights law regarding non-discrimination. Also, in all three countries “alternatives to detention” are rarely offered because of the widespread perception that they serve as transit states along routes into Western Europe, which increases the risk of absconding. All three countries also appear to place children in detention even when this is restricted under their domestic legislation. This has been denounced by UN human rights treaty monitoring bodies and regional and national human rights institutions. Czech and Polish laws outlaw detention of children below 15 and consider accompanied children as merely “accompanying” their parents in detention. Another markedly distinct feature shared by all the three countries is how their stated policy objectives are harsher than what is provided in EU regulations and policies. Along with Hungary, these three countries make what is known as the “Visegrad Group,” which is known for its opposition to Brussels policies, in particular as regards migrants and refugees. These countries—many of whose citizens sought refuge elsewhere in Europe while under Soviet rule during the Cold War—refused quotas for relocation of migrants and refugees from Italy and Greece and their anti-Muslim discourse frequently targets German and French asylum and integration policies as examples not to follow.
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Petr Pondelicek (Refugee Facilities Administration). Response to Global Detention Project/Access Info Questionnaire. 21 March 2013.
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Hana Frankova (Organization for Aid to Refugees). Email exchange with Izabella Majcher. August 2016.
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Hana Frankova (Organization for Aid to Refugees). Email exchange with Izabella Majcher. November 2018.
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Hana Frankova (Organization for Aid to Refugees). Email exchange with Izabella Majcher. November 2018.
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Hana Frankova (Organization for Aid to Refugees). Email exchange with Izabella Majcher. August 2016.
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Hana Frankova (Organization for Aid to Refugees). Email exchange with Izabella Majcher. August 2016.
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Dominik Kowalik (Border Guard). Email exchange with Michael Flynn. September 2018.
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Paweł Michniewicz (Interior Ministry, Migration Policy Department). Response to Global Detention Project /Access Info Questionnaire. 30 April 2013; Dorota Skrzypczyk (Polish Border Guards). Email to the Global Detention Project. 12 November 2015.
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Maciej Fagasinski (Legal Assistance to Refugees and Migrants, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights). Global Detention Project Questionnaire. 8 August, 2011.
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Maciej Fagasinski (Legal Assistance to Refugees and Migrants, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights ). Global Detention Project Questionnaire. 8 August, 2011.
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Maciej Fagasinski (Legal Assistance to Refugees and Migrants, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights). Global Detention Project Questionnaire. 8 August, 2011.
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Dominik Kowalik (Border Guard). Email exchange with Michael Flynn. September 2018.
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Maciej Fagasinski (Legal Assistance to Refugees and Migrants, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights). Global Detention Project Questionnaire. 8 August, 2011.
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Maciej Fagasinski (Legal Assistance to Refugees and Migrants, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights ). Global Detention Project Questionnaire. 8 August, 2011.
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Maciej Fagasinski (Legal Assistance to Refugees and Migrants, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights). Email exchange with Michael Flynn. September 2010.
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Maciej Fagasinski (Legal Assistance to Refugees and Migrants, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights ). Global Detention Project Questionnaire. 8 August, 2011.
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Maciej Fagasinski (Legal Assistance to Refugees and Migrants, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights),.Global Detention Project Questionnaire. 8 August, 2011.
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Pawew Michniewicz (Interior Ministry, Migration Policy Department). Response to Global Detention Project/ Access Info Questionnaire. 30 April, 2013.
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Dominik Kowalik (Border Guard). Email exchange with Michael Flynn. September 2018.
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Dominik Kowalik (Border Guard). Email exchange with Michael Flynn. September 2018.
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Maciej Fagasinski (Legal Assistance to Refugees and Migrants, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights). Global Detention Project Questionnaire. 8 August, 2011; Maciej Fagasinski (Legal Assistance to Refugees and Migrants, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights ). Email exchange with Izabella Majcher. January 2013.
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Maciej Fagasinski (Legal Assistance to Refugees and Migrants, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights ). Global Detention Project Questionnaire. 8 August, 2011; Maciej Fagasinski (Legal Assistance to Refugees and Migrants, Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights). Email exchange with Izabella Majcher. January 2013.
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Daniel Witko (Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights (HFHR)). Email exchange with Izabella Majcher. September 2018; Magda Pajura (Halina Niec Legal Aid Center (HNLAC )). Email exchange with Izabella Majcher. September 2018; Katarzyna Słubik (Association for Legal Intervention (SIP )). Email exchange with Izabella Majcher. September 2018.
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This figure relates precisely to the number of detention orders in 2017. There were more people detained during that year in Slovakia (321) as 52 people who were detained in 2016 remained in detention in 2017.
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Between 2009 and January 2014, Slovakia used a specific orphanage to house unaccompanied children - Horené Orechové orphanage (EMN 2014a).
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Zuzana Stevulova (Human Rights League ). Email exchange with Izabella Majcher. January 2019
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Zuzana Stevulova (Human Rights League). Email exchange with Izabella Majcher. January 2019.
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Miroslava Šnírerová (The Human Rights League). Email message to Alex MacKinnon. 14 July, 2009.
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The other three countries are Belgium, Ireland, and Latvia.
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Majcher, I., Flynn, M., Grange, M. (2020). Central Europe: Declining Arrivals, Surging Antagonism. In: Immigration Detention in the European Union . European Studies of Population, vol 22. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33869-5_4
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