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A Case of Mixed Motives? Formal and Informal Functions of Administrative Immigration Detention Forced Migration Online (24276783) Migration, asylum and refugee law FORCED MIGRATION ONLINE DETENTION ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS DETENTION OF IMMIGRANTS POLICY All over Europe new detention centres for immigrants are being or have been built in recent years. This paper asks if the formal policy framework for administrative migrant detention, in which detention is primarily a non-punitive means to achieve the goal of removing unwanted migrants, constitutes a sufficient explanation for actual detention practices. It looks at the specific case of the Netherlands where it appears that immigration detention practices serve informal social functions that are not codified in law. 2026-09-30T10:51:56Z Text Online resource 10.25446/oxford.33351975.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/A_Case_of_Mixed_Motives_Formal_and_Informal_Functions_of_Administrative_Immigration_Detention/33351975 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0