Stateless Woman Detained and Separated from Her Children: A Case Raising Questions for Child Rights and Immigration Law

2023-06-08 18:59:31

A woman declaring herself stateless has just been released from the Holsbeek closed center following 40 days of detention during which she was separated from her two children. A case raising questions for his lawyer, for the delegate for the rights of the child and for many associations.

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By Arthur Sente

Published on 8/06/2023 at 20:59
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On does not lock up a child. Point. The formula, erected as a bulwark once morest the detention of families with children in order to facilitate their expulsion, had left its mark on the era of the Swedish company and its Secretary of State for Migration, Theo Francken (N-VA) , ending up drawing a red line, moreover taken up in Vivaldi’s government agreement: “Minors cannot be detained in a closed centre. But what happens when a parent is detained in a closed center without their children with the prospect of a collective expulsion of the whole family?

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