The criminalization of irregular immigration: law and practice in Italy, Pisa Un. Press, 2013

A. Di Martino- F.Biondi Dal Monte- I. Boiano and R. Raffaelli (eds),  The criminalization of irregular immigration:  law and practice in Italy, Pisa Un. Press, 2013

This report presents the main findings of a research project that lasted almost two years and that has been financed by the Open Society Foundations.
Our work on irregular immigration has been triggered by allegations of  shabby detention conditions in the Centers for Identification and Expulsion (CIEs), where irregular immigrants may be detained before their expulsion, as well as by the awareness that the Italian system for the removal/expulsion of irregularly staying third-country nationals is not in line with the EU Returns Directive (Directive 2008/115). Indeed, it did not comply with the Directive at the time when we begun working on this issue, and it is still not in line with it, even after the Court of Justice declared such incompatibility (with its decision in El Dridi) and the law was amended with a view to ensure compliance.

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