Thematic Focus: Detention

Event:

"Global Strategy to End the Immigration Detention of Children," Side Event at UN Human Rights Council, Geneva, 14 March 2014 [info]

Publications:

Country Profiles (Global Detention Project, Feb. 2014) [access]
- Three new profiles are available on Hungary, Morocco and New Zealand.

Detention of Asylum Seekers: Analysis of Norway’s International Obligations, Domestic Law and Practice (NOAS, 2014) [text]

"Exporting Detention: Australia-funded Immigration Detention in Indonesia," Journal of Refugee Studies, vol. 26, no. 1 (2013) [free full-text]

Immigration Detention: Behind the Record Numbers (Center for Migration Studies, Feb. 2014) [text]

"Men and the Emotional World of Immigration Detention," Migration: A COMPAS Anthology (COMPAS, 2014) [text]

Web sites:

CONTENTION Research Project (Migration Policy Centre & Odysseus Network) [access]
- Officially kicked-off today, this project aims "to inform, analyse and compare the EU Return Directive based judicial control of pre-removal detention of third-country nationals in 11 EU Member States (AT, BG, BE, CZ, DE, FR, IT, NL, SK, SI and UK) with a view to improving it, in particular regarding the control of the length of detention."  See also the most recent MPC newsletter for a call for case law contributions.

Detention Logs: Inside Australia's Immigration Detention [access]
- "We publish data, documents and investigations that reveal new perspectives on conditions and events inside immigration detention."

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Detention (6 Feb. 2014)

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