“…Although empirical research focusing on immigration detention has grown rapidly over the past two decades, detention spaces remain difficult to access (Maillet et al 2017) and consequently, we still know very little about them (Bosworth 2014). Despite immigration detention policies being common in most immigrant-receiving countries, empirically grounded researches have focused on a handful of countries: many of the studies in this review were carried out in the UK (Bosworth 2014;Gill 2016;Griffiths 2013Griffiths , 2014bHall 2010Hall , 2012Hughes 2016;McGregor 2012;Turnbull 2014Turnbull , 2017, although research has reached spaces of detention in most European countries, such as France (Fischer 2010(Fischer , 2013(Fischer , 2014(Fischer , 2017Makaremi 2008Makaremi , 2009aMakaremi , 2009bTassin 2016), Belgium (Lietaert et al 2014), Germany (Darley 2014), Italy (Campesi 2014a(Campesi , 2014b(Campesi , 2015a, Greece (Alberti 2010;Fili 2013), Romania (Michalon 2013(Michalon , 2015, Sweden (Khosravi 2009), Finland (Kynsilehto and Puumala 2017;Seilonen and Kmak 2015), Norway (Ugelvik and Ugelvik 2013;Ugelvik 2016aUgelvik , 2016b, and Austria and the Czech Republic (Darley 2009(Darley , 2010. Significant research has also concerned the Australian system of detention (Briskman 2013;…”