Protecting migrants with precarious status: decreasing the use of detention and applying community-based alternatives

Led by Center for Legal Aid – Voice in Bulgaria, together with Bulgarian Lawyers for Human Rights (BLHR), this project aims to contribute to the decrease of the use of detention, to the increased use of community-based alternatives and to successful case resolution for migrants in precarious situations. The four project components are advocacy on four specific objectives related to detention, communications (including through the dedicated website www.detainedinbg.com), legal support for persons in detention and case management. The case management component involves working with 50-60 migrants at risk of detention over the two-year period, with the goal of having them stabilized in the community and engaged with the procedure, until case resolution is achieved. At the same time, the case management component collects evidence that is being used for advocacy at the national and EU level for the application of community-based alternatives to detention.