ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on migrant detention in Finland, thus far a completely ignored country case in detention studies. It documents an ongoing change in the detention landscape in Finland. The chapter analyses the significance of a difference in the logic along which detention is organised in Finland as compared to other European countries where migrant detention is increasingly privatised. The Finnish case is an example of the economic logic of cost effectiveness with respect to migration. The chapter explains how that logic undergirds the broader scale of the organisation of the Finnish detention infrastructure and what its effects and ramifications are at the individual level. Detainees have very few possibilities for arguing their cases in public, but people more favourably positioned with regard to the national body politics have brought cases into the public realm.
