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Selected resources relating to alternatives to detention from the European ATD Network and external sources.
Selected resources relating to alternatives to detention from the European ATD Network and external sources.
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This report assesses the European Alternatives to Detention Network (EATDN) progress from 2017-2023, highlighting its influence on policy changes related to immigration detention and migration governance. It also identifies remaining challenges and outlines strategies for future advocacy, aiming to guide efforts in promoting community-based alternatives and systemic change.
This two-year scaling plan outlines how the European ATD Network will advance case management as an Alternative to Detention in Europe, putting advocacy, networks and the expertise of people with lived experience at the forefront.
The plan outlines how, by broadening and deepening our work, we are creating sustainable change now and into the future (European ATD Network, October 2021).
Evaluation of two-year engagement-based alternative to immigration detention pilot projects in Bulgaria, Cyprus and Poland (Eiri Ohtani, July 2020)
Outcomes of peer exchange workshop for NGOs implementing alternative to detention pilot projects as a strategy for change to reduce immigration detention.
Two-pager document introducing the European ATD Network.
Building evidence and momentum on engagement-based alternatives to detention, to reduce immigration detention at the national and regional levels in Europe.
In this infographic PICUM outlines the steps and benefits of case management based ATDs. The infographic will also be featured in a written piece on implementing case management-based alternatives to detention in Europe that is currently being drafted by PICUM (2019).
In this video, three case managers of the European ATD Network share their insights into their empowering work with clients, the inter-personal aspect, successes and challenges of case management. (European ATD Network, April 2019)
The one-year interim evaluation report and its briefing paper share findings related to the effectiveness of case management within the engagement-based ATD pilots. (EPIM, 2018)
NGO info sheet: alternatives to detention as a strategy for reducing immigration detention in Europe (European ATD Network, 2018)
JRS Belgium’s briefing paper ‘Plan Together: Case Management As An Alternative to Immigration Detention’ (2023) summarises JRS Belgium’s preliminary learnings from the Plan Together pilot project so far, with a focus on qualitative data on the families’ responses to case management.
Detention Action’s report ‘Without Detention: Opportunities for alternatives’ (2016) outlines how international and UK good practices could be built on to develop a systematic approach to migration governance that avoids the use of detention wherever possible, prioritising meaningful engagement with migrants over harmful and costly enforcement.
A handbook for preventing unnecessary immigration detention (revised edition) (IDC, 2015).
Gaining Ground: Promising Practice to Reduce and End Immigration Detention (IDC, 2022).
Towards freedom: Piloting alternative measures to detention to support migrant men and women (SIP, 2021).
Case Management as a pathway to the regularisation of migrants: Preventing the risk of administrative detention and proposing alternatives to an inhumane system (CILD, Progetto Diritti & Otto per Mille Valdese, 2022).
The Work of HumanRights360 Social Integration Service: Tackling the chain barriers to integration & registering the “undocumented” persons (HumanRights360).