Thematic Focus: Detention, esp. Libya, U.S.

Developments in Libya:

Amid Libya Clashes, UNHCR Relocates Detained Refugees to Safety (UNHCR, April 2019) [text]

IOM Statement: Protecting Migrants in Libya Must be Our Primary Focus (IOM, April 2019) [text]

"Libya Crisis: Thousands of Refugees Trapped in Detention at ‘Serious Risk’ as Fighting Erupts in Tripoli," The Independent, 12 April 2019 [text]

Report on Nutrition Screening Findings in Sabaa Detention Centre (MSF, March 2019) [text] 

Trapped Refugees Must be Released and Granted Safety from Tripoli Fighting (MSF, April 2019) [text]

"UN Head ‘Shocked’ by Suffering at Migrant Camp in Libya," EURACTIV, 5 April 2019 [text]

Publications:

Beyond Detention: A Global Strategy to Support Governments to End the Detention of Asylum-Seekers & Refugees, 2014-2019 - Progress Report 2018 (UNHCR, Feb. 2019) [text]

Immigration Detention in Croatia: Shrinking Space for Independent Monitoring (Global Detention Project, April 2019) [text]

Immigration Detention in Niger: Expanding the EU-Financed Zone of Suffering through “Penal Humanitarianism” (Global Detention Project, March 2019) [text]

Life, Death, and Corporeal Resistance in Immigration Detention, Thesis (American Univ. in Cairo, Jan. 2019) [text]
- Watch also related CMRS seminar presentation by author.

"UK: Home Office Detention Melt-down," ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 29 March 2019 [text]
- See also related Free Movement blog post.

United States:

Arbitrary Detention of Asylum Seekers Perpetuates the Torture of Family Separation (Just Security Blog, March 2019) [text]

Certain Detained Asylum Seekers Must Receive a Bond Hearing Within 7 Days, Judge Orders (Immigration Impact Blog, April 2019) [text]

Immigrants are Regularly Kept Locked up for Months after Deportation Orders (Immigration Impact Blog, March 2019) [text]

"It's Just Like Prison: Is a Civil (Nonpunitive) System of Immigration Detention Theoretically Possible?," Denver Law Review, vol. 96 (Forthcoming, 2019) [preprint]

"The Right to be Heard from Immigration Prisons: Locating a Right of Access to Counsel for Immigration Detainees in the Right of Access to Courts," Harvard Law Review, vol. 132, no. 2 (Dec. 2019) [full-text]

Supreme Court Reinforces Mandatory Detention of Immigrants (Lawfare Blog, March 2019) [text]
- See also related analyses on ImmigrationProf and SCOTUSblog.

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Detention (13 March 2019)

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