17 May 2010

Focus on Detention: Events, Journal Articles, News

Two upcoming events will focus on detention:

"The Theory and Practice of Immigration Detention Workshop: Perspectives from Legal, Political, and Social Theory," University of Oxford, 21 May 2010 [info]
- Four panels will discuss legal approaches, political theory, conditions of immigration detention, and citizenship and government technologies. The workshop is co-sponsored by the Refugee Studies Centre, COMPAS, and St. Antony's College.

"Detention of Vulnerable Asylum Seekers and Irregular Migrants in the European Union," Brussels, 8 June 2010 [info]
- Coordinated by JRS Europe and partner NGOs. The meeting will discuss research undertaken by the DEVAS project into the impact of detention and the development of a tool to assess vulnerability in detention.

Latest news in the UK:

"Asylum children will be kept out of 'distressing' detention centres," The Guardian, 14 May 2010 [text]
- See also this related study: "The mental and physical health difficulties of children held within a British immigration detention center: A pilot study," Child Abuse & Neglect, vol. 33, no. 9 (2009): 573–585.

Other recent journal articles:

"The meaning and mental health consequences of long-term immigration detention for people seeking asylum," Social Science & Medicine, vol. 70, no. 12 (June 2010): 2070-2079 [abstract]

"The mental health of detained asylum seeking children," European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, published online 30 January 2010 [abstract]


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