Bertrand Gaudillère / Item
A Face behind the Statistics
Statistics*:
France has 24 administrative holding centers "accommodating" 32 268 detainees; the average age is 32. Over one year, a total of 29 796 such detainees were deported for a total cost of 533 million euros, i.e. approximately 27 000 euros per person deported*.
A Face: this is the face of Guilherme, a 45-year-old "illegal" from Angola who has been in France for nine years and is the father of two children born in the country. So far he has survived four attempts to deport him.
This is just one of a number of faces, one face to remind us that behind the statistics there are human beings.
* Figures for 2008 from the French NGO, Cimade
Interactive Map
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