Turin's CIE - International University College of Turin

areas of the public administration and inadequate legal and linguistic assistance for vulnerable
individuals.
Around the world, political policies about immigration detention are controversial topics which
are often linked to the political and economic environment of the day. Consequently, the study
also summarises additional miscellaneous matters about Turin’s CIE, which assist to
contextualise the centre in terms of its wider economic, social and political context.
This report then concludes by presenting a list of seventeen specific problems that were
identified as obstructing the full, practical and accessible implementation of human rights law
and EU law both inside Turin’s CIE and in terms of the related Italian judicial and administrative
procedures. The problems found relate to: family life and the effect that detaining parents has
on children; insufficient health care; unsatisfactory protection for asylum seekers and
humanitarian entrants; a lack of training and institutional support for people from culturally
and linguistically diverse communities; the stressful and degrading nature of living in the CIE;
controversies in the Italian administrative law system for deciding on and validating
immigration detention; and the discrepancy between the level of rights protection that is
afforded in immigration matters where liberty is at stake when compared with the criminal
justice system.
The CIE Research Project was conducted from January 2012 to August 2012 by the
International University College of Turin as part of the Human Rights and Migration Law Clinic;
a clinical legal training program for undergraduate law students and LLM masters students. The
Human Rights and Migration Law Clinic is run by the International University College of Turin in
cooperation with the Faculties of Law of the University of Turin and the Eastern Piedmont
University in Alessandria and in partnership with the Associazione Studi Giuridici
sull’Immigrazione. This report has been produced in a joint effort by an international research
group comprised of two supervising lawyers and six clinical legal program students. The eight
researches come from six different countries (Argentina, Australia, Germany, India, Italy and
Russia) and they have interdisciplinary academic backgrounds.
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