Thematic Focus: Detention

Blog posts & press:

"Deaths in Custody. Sexual Violence. Hunger Strikes. What We Uncovered Inside ICE Facilities across the US," USA Today, 19 Dec. 2019) [text]

From Offshore Detention of Refugees to Indigenous Incarceration (Public Seminar, Dec. 2019) [text]

The Immigration Detainees Held in Prisons Rather than Detention Centres (Free Movement Blog, Jan. 2020) [text]

"Last Asylum Seekers Held in Papua New Guinea Detention Centre Released," The Guardian, 24 Jan. 2020 [text]

Religion in Immigration Detention: Comparing the US and UK (Border Criminologies Blog, Jan. 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

The Airstrikes on the Daman Building Complex, Including the Tajoura Detention Centre, 2 July 2019 (UN Support Mission in Libya & OHCHR, Jan. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related news release.

"The Debate over 'Alternatives' to Immigration Detention of Children," Chapter in Migration, State Obligations, and Rights in a Globalized Context (Univ. of Geneva, 2019) [full-text via GDP]

"Escaping the Sunken Place: Indefinite Detention, Asylum Seekers and Resistance in Yarl's Wood IRC," Denning Law Journal, vol. 31, no. 1 (2019) [open access]

Failed Accountability: The Unknown Cost of Immigration Detention in Massachusetts (Harvard Law School, Jan. 2020) [access]

"Immigration Detention: An Anglo Model," Migration Studies, vol. 7, no. 4 (Dec. 2019) [free full-text]
- Looks at immigration detention systems in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom & the United States.

Immigration Detention in Austria: Where the Refugee "Crisis" Never Ends (Global Detention Project, Jan. 2020) [text]

Promoting and Challenging Immigration Detention in Canada: Understanding the Role of Advocacy Coalition Groups in Canada’s Immigration Detention Policy Subsystem, RCIS Working Paper, no. 2019/2 (Ryerson Univ., April 2019) [text]

Report to the Danish Government on the Visit to Denmark Carried Out by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) from 3 to 12 April 2019
- The CPT "paid particular attention to...the situation in prisons and establishments for detained migrants, notably in respect of treatment, material conditions and health care."

"Sleep Deprivation of Detained Children: Another Reason to End Child Detention," Health and Human Rights Journal, Papers-in-press, 20 Jan. 2020 [open access]

"Unshackling the Due Process Rights of Asylum-Seekers, Virginia Law Review, vol. 105, no. 8 (Dec. 2019) [full-text]
- "The focus of this Note is the government’s excessive use of GPS monitoring ankle bracelets on asylum-seekers through the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program ('ISAP')—an alternative-to-detention program used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to supervise certain noncitizens in removal proceedings."

Resource: 

Landscapes of Border Control (Univ. of Oxford) [access]
- "Starting with material gathered from and about Greece and Italy this project aims to visualise what goes on in detention centres in order to increase public understanding about immigration and the treatment of immigrants in detention settings. Eventually, other countries will be added." For more info, read this Border Criminologies blog post.

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Detention (20 Dec. 2019)

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