Human Rights Watch (2017), "Like Living in Hell". Police Abuses Against Child and Adult Migrants in Calais

Country

France

Title

Human Rights Watch (2017), "Like Living in Hell". Police Abuses Against Child and Adult Migrants in Calais

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Year

2017

Type of publication

Survey - quantitative research

Geographical coverage

Regional

Area/location of interest

FR301 - Nord (FR)

Type of Institution

National human rights body

Institution

Human Rights Watch

Main Thematic Focus

Discrimination

Target Population

Migrants

Key findings

This report documents police abuse of asylum seekers and migrants, the police disruption of humanitarian assistance, and police harassment of aid workers—behaviour that appears to be at least partly driven by a desire to keep down migrant numbers.

Methodology (Qualitative/Quantitative and exact type used, questionnaires etc)

Quantitative: face to face interviews

Sample details and representativeness

Interview with 61 asylum seekers and migrants, including three women and one girl, in and around Calais and Dunkerque at the end of June and beginning of July 2017. Thirty-one identified themselves as children under the age of 18. Interviews with two dozen aid workers who distribute food, provide medical or legal services, or offer information and other support to asylum seekers and migrants in the departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais, with the deputy Prefect for Calais and with other local authorities, as well as with the directorate of asylum
of the Ministry of the Interior in Paris.

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