Regional study: management of the European Union external border and the impact on the human rights of migrants 2013, para. 92
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Promote viable alternatives to detention, and not insist on further entrenching detention as a migration control mechanism through support for expanded networks of detention centres. Detention should always be a measure of last resort, and children should never be detained.
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Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants