This special website of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Europe is dedicated to asylum seekers and irregular migrants in detention in Europe.

Those persons who are looking for protection or for ways of trying to survive by undeclared work are literally locked up and guarded as if they were criminal prisoners, and very often their living conditions in detention are even worse than living conditions in criminal prisons.

JRS staff in Europe visit and accompany many of these detainees and, building on that experience, JRS in Europe and the Brussels office of JRS-Europe plead their cause.

The purpose of this website is to inform, raise awareness and to nourish critical as well as constructive debate.

JRS is a global Catholic organisation, founded in 1980 with the mission to accompany, serve and advocate for refugees and other forcibly displaced people.

Read the JRS common position on immigration detention in Europe

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Recent JRS documents and activities on detention
	Read our newest report on the Dublin Regulation, Protection Interrupted
	New JRS Europe on alternatives to detention, From Deprivation to Liberty: Alternatives to detention in Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom
	JRS Europe speaks out against detention at public conference in Antwerp
	JRS Europe 2011 Annual Report
	NO OTHER OPTION: Testomonies from Asylum Seekers in Ukraine Read the press release: Refugees left unprotected in Ukraine Read a testimony from a refugee living in Ukraine
	Becoming Vulnerable in Detention (The DEVAS project final report)
	JRS-Europe and Christian organisations publish comments on the European Commission's proposal to amend the Dublin II Regulation (Photo © UNHCR/A.Pace) The personal impact of the Dublin Regulation towards asylum seekers in the EU
	JRS-Portugal publishes a new book on detention (Photo © Don Doll)
	JRS-Europe advocates for alternatives to detention at EU meeting on the Return Directive
	BBC 'Europe Today' interviews JRS-Europe on the detention of children in Europe

Website last updated on: 11/06/2013

For more information about the work of JRS-Europe, and JRS offices in Europe, visit: www.jrseurope.org

Produced with financial support from the EU's Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Programme