This publication is mainly intended for people providing helping services for detained foreigners in Hungary or in other countries. We also intend to provide useful information to people working at detention centres in other roles, such as guards, physicians or medical assistants. The publication may help representatives of the immigration authorities to get to know the background, everyday life and behaviour of their clients better. We hope it will prove to be an interesting read for anyone wishing to gain an outlook on the life, difficulties, challenges and possibilities of detention centres. Our publication is not a fully developed, tested and standardized methodological guide. It does not lay down generally applicable statements regarding work performed with foreigners or in the course of the detention or regarding the work of helpers. It simply summarizes the professional experiences gathered by the professionals of Menedék Association in the course of their work done at immigration detention centres in the past seven years.
The publication was developed in the scope of the project titled “Supportive Services for Third Country Nationals under Alien Policing Procedure” (MMIA-3.1.2-2015-00002), with the support of the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund of the European Union.
