Introduction and/or last update date:

In France, the places involving administrative detention are divided into four categories: first of all, there are waiting zones in ports and airports for foreigners who are stopped at the border and whose documents are not in order (maximum length of detention / mld = 24 days). Then, there are administrative detention centres (CRAs) which detain a part of the sans-papiers who are present in the territory (mld = 45 days). Then there are police stations where rooms for administrative detention (mld = from 2 to 4 days) which may be found, considering that all the police stations may be used for detainees as of 4 p.m. while awaiting verification of foreigners’ administrative status and to transfer them, if necessary, to a CRA. Finally, there is prison, and the CESEDA (code on the entry and residence of foreigners and of the right to asylum) actually envisages that a three-year prison sentence may be issued to those migrants who resist their expulsion.

Last update date: 02/2016

Number of camps: 65
Number of camps entered in the database. For the calculation of the number of camps, please refer to the Methodology page

Camps in this country:

- Ajaccio (Aéroport de)
- Allonnes
- Bâle Mulhouse (Aéroport de)
- Bastia
- Beauvais (Aéroport de)
- Bordeaux
- Bordeaux (Aéroport de)
- Brest
- Brest (Port de)
- Brest - Bretagne (Aéroport de )
- Calais (port de)
- Cayenne (Rochambeau)
- Cergy-Pontoise
- Cherbourg
- Choisy-le-Roi
- Coquelles
- Guadeloupe - Les Abymes
- Hendaye
- La Réunion - Le Chaudron
- Le Lamentin (Aéroport de)
- Le lamentin 1
- Le lamentin 2
- Lille 2
- Lille Lesquin (Aéroport de)
- Lille Lesquin 1
- Lyon
- Lyon Saint Exupéry (Aéroport de)
- Marseille (Le Canet) - CRA
- Marseille (Le Canet) - ZA
- Marseille Provence (Aéroport de)
- Mayotte (Mamoudzou)
- Mayotte (Pamandzi)
- Mayotte (Pamandzi)

- Mayotte - Pamandzi
- Mesnil Amelot 2 et 3
- Metz Queuleu
- Modane
- Modane (Gare de)
- Nice
- Nice - Côte d'Azur Aéroport Terminal 1 et 2
- Nîmes
- Orly (Aéroport de)
- Palaiseau
- Paris dépôt
- Paris Vincennes
- Perpignan
- Perpignan-Rivesaltes (Aéroport de)
- Plaisir
- Port Vendres (Port de Commerce Hall Maritime)
- Quimper - Cornouaille (Aéroport de)
- Rennes-Saint Jacques de la Lande
- Roscoff (gare maritime de)
- Rouen - Oissel
- Saint-Louis
- Saint-Martin
- Sainte-Marie (Aéroport de)
- Sète
- Sète (Port de)
- Soisson
- Strasbourg-Geispolsheim
- Toulouse (Aéroport de)
- Toulouse-Cornebarrieu
- Tours
- Troyes
- ZAPI 3 (Roissy)

Map

Total capacity (sum of the capacities of the camps across the country)

Typology of camps in the country:

- Accomodation or detention of migrants waiting to cross a border legally
- Centre de rétention administrative (CRA)
- Zone d'attente (ZA)

Maximum length of detention in the country (in days)

Number of persons detained

Number of persons deported

Outgoing Dublin transfers

Incoming Dublin transfers

Degree of knowledge of this country: GOOD