Coerced into Subsistence
Deprivation of Liberty in the EU Reception and Identification Centres in Greece
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6451734 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C H Slingenberg (0000-0002-3827-6104, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 381-401 |
| Publication date | 2025-02-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Legal Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-6639 • E-ISSN: 1461-7390 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/09646639251322979 |
| OpenAlex | W4408038941 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
In 2021, new reception centres for asylum seekers were established in Greece. These centres are remotely located, highly surveillanced and asylum seekers living there are subjected to stringent conditions, including a curfew, that obliges them to be in the centre between 8 pm. and 8 am. Such curfews are a traditional method of social control and fit a broader trend of excluding certain categories of people from public space. This article analyses the gap between the lived experiences of asylum seekers staying in these centres and the protection provided by human rights law. It shows how these centres are generally experienced as prisons by its inhabitants, whereas they are not qualified as such in human rights law. The article uses the notion of ‘subsistence exchange contracts’ to bridge this gap. The article argues that if this notion would be used for the legal qualification of deprivation of liberty, state power would be more effectively constrained, which is crucial for the rule of law
Agriculture · Archaeology · Biology · Geography · Group identification · Identification (biology · Political science · Subsistence agriculture · European Criminal Justice and Data Protection · International Law and Human Rights · Psychology · Social Psychology · Ecology
A Moral Inconsistency Argument for a Basic Human Right to Subsistence
Evaluating ‘Life Steeped in Power’
Banished
Red Zones
Exclusion from Public Space
European case law on migrants’ social and mobility rights
Homelessness and social control
Under curfew and under siege? Legal geographies of young people
Let Me Move
Migrant Reception Centres and Coercive Social Control
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |