Thematic Focus: Detention

Opportunity:

Job announcement: Executive Director, International Detention Coalition [info]
- Apply by 17 July 2020.

Blog posts & press:

A – pyrrhic? – Victory Concerning Detention in Transit Zones and Procedural Rights: FMS & FMZ and the Legislation Adopted by Hungary in Its Wake (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, June 2020) [text]

How Covid-19 Measures Reinforce the Indefinite Detention of India’s ‘Foreigners’ (Border Criminologies Blog, July 2020) [text]

‘A human being feels they are on a precipice’: COVID-19’s Threshold Moment (Kaldor Centre, June 2020) [text]
- Focuses on Australia.

The Role of Federal Courts in Coronavirus-Related Immigration Detention Litigation (Lawfare Blog, June 2020) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

Reports & journal articles:

Data on the Coronavirus Outbreak in Immigration Detention Offer More Questions than Answers (Center for American Progress, June 2020) [text]
- Focuses on the US. See also related press release.

Detention of Migrants and Refugees in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, MMC West Africa 4Mi Snapshot (Mixed Migration Centre, July 2020) [text]

"An Evaluation of the Quality of Self-harm Incident Reporting Across the Australian Asylum Seeker Population According to World Health Organization (WHO) Guidelines," BMC Psychiatry, 20:301 (June 2020) [open access]
- See also related Pursuit article.

Immigration Detention and COVID-19 Timeline: Administration Fails to Heed Warnings, Worsens Spread of Coronavirus (Human Rights First, June 2020) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

International Detention Coalition Strategic Plan: 1st July 2020 to 30th June 2022 (July 2020) [text]

*IOM Road Map on Alternatives to Migration Detention, Tools Series, no. 1 (IOM, July 2020) [text]

Migration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2020 [Provisions] (Parliament of Australia, June 2020) [access]
- Follow link for more information about this bill and access to the texts of submissions to the inquiry (see, e.g., UNHCR's). See also related Guardian article and Kaldor Centre comment.

"Releasing Migrants from Detention During the Covid-19 Pandemic," Journal of General Internal Medicine, Latest Articles, 15 June 2020 [free full-text]
- Focuses on the US.

Springing Amir (SSRN, May 2020) [text]
- Focuses on Canada.

*UPDATED

Related posts:
- Thematic Focus: Detention - Pt. 1 (11 June 2020)
- Thematic Focus: Detention - Pt. 2 (US) (11 June 2020)