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Like a Rollercoaster. Detention Centres for Foreigners in Poland

2013; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

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Gawel Walczak,

Government, Law, and Information Management

espanolEn Octubre de 2012 el grupo de extranjeros alojados en los Centros de Internamiento para Extranjeros en Polonia empezo la huelga de hambre. Muchos de ellos fueron solicitantes de asilo esperando las decisiones sobre sus estatutos detras de alambre de puas y rejas. Lo que demandaban fueron mejores condiciones de esperar. Ha sido la primera vez que los medios de comunicacion se interesaron en el tema, introduciendolo al discurso publico. Por primera vez la gente ha podido leer articulos sobre este tema en la prensa, ver y escuchar programas especiales en la television o en la radio. Han podido conocer declaraciones de varias ONGs y opiniones de instituciones gubernamentales. Durante todo el debate publico muchas historias han sido contadas y mucha gente ha sido involucrada. El objetivo de este articulo es el analisis de cuatro historias: del refugiado, de la proteccion, de la prision y la ultima del hueco que formaran el eje central de la historia sobre la situacion de los extranjeros en los Centros de Internamiento en Polonia. EnglishIn October 2012 a group of foreigners located in detention centres in Poland started a hunger strike. Many of them were asylum seekers who awaited decisions regarding their status behind the bars and barbed wire. They demanded better conditions of staying in those places. It was the first time when Polish media got interested in this topic, introducing it into the public discourse. People could read about it in the press, watch special programmes on TV and listen to broadcasts on the radio. They could familiarize themselves with statements made by various nongovernmental organizations and governmental institutions. During the whole debate, many stories were told and many people were involved. In this article I would like to analyse four of them: the one of refuge, the one of protection, the one of prison and one of a gap. They constitute the core of the main story, which is about the situation of foreigners in the Polish detention centres.