11 August 2022

Thematic Focus: Detention

Opportunity:

Webinar: The Many Tools of OPCAT for Preventing Harmful Migration-related Detention, 5 September 2022 [info]

Blog posts & press:

"Australia holding immigration detainees for average of almost two years, freedom of information request reveals," The Guardian, 1 Aug. 2022 [text]

Bond Hearings for Asylum Seekers Are Latest Casualty of the Recent Supreme Court Term (Immigration Impact Blog, Aug. 2022) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

ICE Currently Holds 22,886 Immigrants in Detention, Alternatives to Detention Growth Increases to nearly 300,000 (ImmigrationProf Blog, July 2022) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

New immigration detention bill could give Australia a fresh chance to comply with international law (The Conversation, Aug. 2022) [text]

The punitive nature of immigrant detention (Niskanen Center Commentary, Aug. 2022) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

"Report Reveals Inhumane Conditions in Malaysia’s Immigration Detention Centers," The Diplomat, 28 June 2022 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Adult hospitalizations from immigration detention in Louisiana and Texas, 2015–2018," PLOS Global Public Health 2(8): e0000432 (Aug. 2022) [open access]

"Between Resistance and Complicity, the Australian Healthcare Community and 30 Years of Immigration Detention," Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, Latest Articles, 5 Aug. 2022 [open access]

"The Detention of Migrant Children: A Comparative Study of the United States and Mexico," International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 32, no. 2 (June 2020) [postprint]
- Note: Access to the full-text is now available.

Evaluation of "Action Access," an Alternatives to Detention Pilot: Report of an Independent Evaluation (March 2019-October 2021), ES/2021/08 (UNHCR, Jan. 2022) [text]
- Focuses on the UK.

"Immigration detention and juxtaposed border controls on the French north coast," European Journal of Criminology, vol. 19, no. 4 (2022) [postprint]

"Immigration detention as a routine police measure: Discretionary powers in preemptive detention of noncitizens in Finland," Law & Society Review, vol. 56, no. 3 (Sept. 2022) [open access]

Safety and Dignity for Refugee and Migrant Children: Recommendations for Alternatives to Detention and Appropriate Care Arrangements in Europe (IOM, UNHCR & UNICEF, July 2022) [text]
- See also related press release.

"Torturing environments and multiple injuries in Mexican migration detention," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9:263 (Aug. 2022) [open access]

"Towards a criminology of public inquiries: From cautious optimism to contestation in the Brook House Inquiry," Criminology & Criminal Justice, OnlineFirst, 6 Aug. 2022 [open access]
- Focuses on the UK.

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