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Abstract
The Aliens Holding Centre at Trandum, about 40 minutes north of Norway’s capital city of Oslo, is the country’s only closed immigration detention centre. Although detainees are held there as a result of having violated the Immigration Act and not the Penal Code, and whilst their detention is meant to facilitate deportation and not as punishment, Trandum’s Centre looks and feels exactly like a conventional prison in a variety of ways.
The aim of this article is to introduce the Aliens Holding Centre at Trandum as part of a wider Norwegian (and thus European) immigration control regime, as well as detailing information about the centre in itself, drawing to this end on publicly available reports by the Norwegian Parliamentary Ombudsman for Public Administration, the Independent Council in charge of monitoring operations at Trandum’s Centre, and the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
The article is available from Sage journals
Keywords
Immigration detention, immigration control, Norway, Aliens Holding Centre at Trandum