Thematic Focus: Detention

Opportunity:

COVID-19 Survey on Immigration Detention [info]
- Available in multiple languages. Please complete survey by 30 September 2020.

Blog posts & press:

The Continued Detention of Migrants in U.S. Detention Centers During the COVID Pandemic (Border Criminologies Blog, July 2020) [text]

Deaths in Immigration Detention are at a Record High. ICE Can Prevent the Next One (Immigration Impact Blog, Aug. 2020) [text]
- See also related AILA page on "Deaths at Adult Detention Centers."

Detained and Disregarded: How COVID-19 Has Affected Detained and Deportable Migrants in Sweden (Border Criminologies Blog, July 2020) [text]

Detention and Migration (On the Move Blog, Aug. 2020) [text]
- Focuses on South Africa.

Immigration Detention in the Age of COVID-19: A View from Canada (Border Criminologies Blog, July 2020) [text]

Libya: UNHCR Worried for Migrants in Detention Centers (InfoMigrants, July 2020) [text]

UNHCR Stresses Urgent Need for States to End Unlawful Detention of Refugees and Asylum-seekers, Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic (UNHCR, July 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"COVID-19 and the Relentless Harms of Australia’s Punitive Immigration Detention Regime," Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal, OnlineFirst, 1 Aug. 2020 [open access]

*Immigrant Detention and COVID-19: How a Pandemic Exploited and Spread through the US Immigrant Detention System (Center for Migration Studies, Aug. 2020) [text]

Immigration Detention in Algeria: Pandemic Pushbacks (Global Detention Project, July 2020) [text]

Immigration Detention in Jordan: Detained by Employers, Locked Inside Refugee Camps, Pushed Back into Conflict Zones (Global Detention Project, July 2020) [text]

"Immigration Detention in the Age of COVID-19," Chapter in Research Handbook on the Law and Politics of Migration (Edward Elgar, Forthcoming 2021) [preprint]

Independent Desk Review of UNHCR’s Global Strategy – Beyond Detention 2014–2019 (UNHCR, April 2020) [text]

Monitoring Policy, Litigious and Legislative Shifts in Migration and Detention in South Africa (Lawyers for Human Rights, June 2020) [text]

*UPDATED

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Detention (7 July 2020)