Thematic Focus: Detention

Blog posts & press:

"Australia's Offshore Detention is Unlawful, Says International Criminal Court Prosecutor," The Guardian, 14 Feb. 2020 [text]

How People in Immigration Detention Try to Cope with Life in Limbo (The Conversation, Feb. 2020) [text]
- Focuses on the UK.

How Will Conditions in Border Patrol Facilities Change Now That a Judge Has Ruled Them Unconstitutional? (Immigration Impact Blog, Feb. 2020) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

Immigration Detention and the Dublin III Regulation (Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog, Jan. 2020 [Part I] [Part II]
- Focuses on the UK.

Inside Christmas Island: The Australian Detention Centre with Four Asylum Seekers and a $26m Price Tag," The Guardian, 26 Jan. 2020 [text]

Italy: Halt Abusive Migration Cooperation with Libya (Human Rights Watch, Feb. 2020) [text]

Judicial Review on Migrants and Asylum Seekers’ Detention Proceedings in Italy (Border Criminologies Blog, Feb. 2020) [text]

Legal Scholars & UN Experts: Flores Regulations Violate International Law (Immigration Law Blog, Jan. 2020) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

The Via Corelli Detention Center in Milan: History, Present and Future (Border Criminologies Blog, Feb. 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Alternatives: Learning What Works & Why, Monitoring and Evaluation of Alternatives to Immigration Detention, no. 4 (International Detention Coalition, Sept. 2019) [access]
- Follow link for versions in English and Spanish.

"Balancing Factors," Chapter 5 in Judicial Review of Immigration Detention in the UK, US and EU:
From Principles to Practice (Hart Publishing, Jan. 2020) [free full-text]

*"Checking Rights at the Border: Detention of Migrants in International and Comparative Law," Virginia Journal of International Law, vol. 60, no. 1 (2020) [full-text]

Immigration Detention Oversight: Review of the Ombudsman's Activities Overseeing Immigration Detention (Commonwealth Ombudsman, Feb. 2020) [text]

The Implementation of OPCAT in Australia (Australian OPCAT Network, Jan. 2020) [text via Kaldor Centre]
- Chapter 2 addresses "Immigration Detention." This report was submitted to the "UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) and the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD), ahead of their visits to Australia in 2020."

"Jailing Immigrant Detainees: A National Study of County Participation in Immigration Detention, 1983–2013," Law & Society Review, vol. 54, no. 1 (March 2020) [free full-text]
- Focuses on the US.

Locked Up Without Rights: Nationality-based Detention in the Moria Refugee Camp (HIAS, Dec. 2019) [text]

Practical Guidance on Alternatives to Immigration Detention: Fostering Effective Results (Council of Europe, Oct. 2019) [text]

- Based on earlier, more in-depth analysis published in 2018. More info in this IDC news story.

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Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Detention (27 Jan. 2020)