Izabella Majcher - Immigration Detention in the European Union: In the Shadow of the “Crisis”

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We would like to acknowledge the invaluable assistance we received from our talented colleagues at the Global Detention Project (GDP). In particular, we are deeply grateful for the inestimable contribution of Katie Welsford, the GDPs communications guru, whose editorial diligence and effectiveness was indispensable during the entire period of our research, writing, and production for this book. The outstanding work of GDP research fellows, Costanza Ragazzi, Agnese Zucca, and Inga Boecker, significantly deepened the scope and coverage of our own work; they left their mark on many of the pages in this volume. We are also very thankful to have had the assistance of Phoebe Kennan, who graciously devoted a large portion of her internship at the GDP during summer 2019 to helping us organise and layout the final draft of our manuscript. There is no doubt that this book would not have been completed without the efforts of these individuals.

We would also like to acknowledge the vital information and feedback that we received from countless research partners and interlocutors across Europe, who generously provided their time and insights as we struggled to understand the detention laws, policies, and practices in their countries. Although they are too numerous to mention here, you will find many of their names scattered across the pages of this book as they have been important sources for the GDPs work for many years.

We would like to give a special thanks to the GDPs key institutional partners, whose unflagging support for the organisation was a sine qua non for the production of this book: the Open Society Foundations (OSF), in particular OSF-Europe and the International Migration Initiative, the Oak Foundation, and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Human Security Division.

Finally, we wish to express our gratitude to our families, for their encouragement and forbearance. Writing a book inevitably requires leaning on the shoulders of those closest to you.