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detention centres; Greece; refugeesUnauthorised populationUndefinedUndocumentedUNHCRUnited KingdomUniversitiesUSAVenezuelaVictimsVideoViolenceVisasVisual artsVisual representationVolunteeringVulnerabilityWallsWarWest AfricaWindrushWomenWomen's marchWorkshopXenophobiaYouthZemiology More filters Less filters Image credit: author 21 July 2025 ‘The Ministry of Migration is not a hotel’: The Greek Government’s Admission of Inhuman Detention Conditions by: Andriani Fili 20 May 2024 Breakdown of the Rule of Law in Greece: Violence in detention centres, pushbacks at land and sea, humanitarians on trial by: Spyros-Vlad Oikonomou, Cornelia Ernst 16 April 2024 Detention Landscapes: Mapping Violence in Immigration Detention in Greece by: Andriani Fili 23 March 2023 Closed. 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The Construction of Torturing Environments in Samos’ Hotspot Camps by: Julia Manek, Gemma Bird, Andrea Galán 23 February 2023 Researching and Exposing Violence Inside Pre-Removal Detention Centres on Mainland Greece by: Andriani Fili 20 April 2022 Explaining Immigration Detention in Greece 19 April 2022 Modelling UK Reception on Greece’s Failed Reception System 12 April 2022 Pushbacks In Greece: State Crime, Denial and the Struggle Against Impunity 11 April 2022 Six Years Since Europe’s Deal with Turkey 10 March 2022 Why Europe Must Still Act: The Aegean Islands as a Laboratory for European Border Policies Top blogs posts this month 1) 29 September 2025 Italy's Borders Immigration Paradox: Rising Numbers, Falling Crime, and the Reality of Exploitation by: Luciano Magaldi Sardella, Matteo Mantuano 2) 10 November 2025 UK's Labour’s Immigration White Paper: Reviewed by: Ananya Kumar-Banerjee 3) 3 November 2025 Afghan Refugees Caught Between Climate Hazards and Deportation in Karachi, Pakistan by: Nasrat Sayed, Zulfiqar Kunbhar 4) 17 September 2025 Deported Without Due Process: How Border Militarization Undermines Constitutional and Human Rights by: Alexandra Wagner 5) 24 October 2025 Rohingya Refugees and their Crises in Criminal Justice System of Bangladesh by: Sakhawat Sajjat Sejan, Abu Bakker Siddiq