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Out the Back Door The Dublin II Regulation and Illegal Deportations from Greece

Document number
2395
Date
2009
Title
Out the Back Door The Dublin II Regulation and Illegal Deportations from Greece
Author/publisher
Norwegian Hesinki Committee, Norwegian Organisation For Asylum Seekers, Aitima
Availability
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Irregular Migration, Feminization of migration, Economic migration, Labour migration, Free movement, Undocumented migrants; Undocumented labour; Migrant rights; Migration management; Comprehensive approach to migration; Migration policy; Violence, Human rights violation, Crime against humanity, War crime, Armed conflict, Post-conflict situation, Terrorism,
Summary
Based on investigations carried out by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC), the Norwegian Organisation for Asylum Seekers (NOAS) and AITIMA in Greece, this report aims to demonstrate that asylum seekers and Dublin returnees to the territory of Greece continue to risk refoulement and are not able to contest deportation or the decision behind it. Asylum seekers face particularly great diffi culties as a result of: 
1. The lack of access to asylum procedures.
2. Serious fl aws in the Greek asylum system.
3. Illegal deportations
This also applies to asylum seekers returning to Greece under the Dublin II Regulation.
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