Tunaboylu, SevdaRué, AlèxiaJubany, Olga2025-05-142025-05-142025https://hdl.handle.net/2445/220992Detention has increasingly been used as the main strategy across Europe to prevent foreign citizens from absconding while pending for deportation. Yet, this is a highly contested measure as it often implies breaching several human and migrant rights. In Spain, civil society has a long tradition of advocating for the closure of all pre-removal detention centres for foreigners, known locally as CIEs -the Centro de Internamiento de Extranjeros-. But is this a realistic possibility within Spain's current politico-legal framework? Grounded the data gathered and analysis of the first two research stages of MORE, in this blog post, we argue that abolishing pre-removal detention is a viable option.4 p.application/pdfengcc-by (c) Tunaboylu, Sevda et al., 2025http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/DeportacióCentres d'internament d'estrangersPolítica migratòriaDeportationAlien detention centersMigration policyinfo:eu-repo/semantics/reportinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess