Thematic Focus: Detention

Blog posts & press:

COVID-19 and International Law Series: States’ Obligations to Refugees and Migrants in Detention (Just Security Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

Making the Case for Ending Immigration Detention (Immigration Impact Blog, Nov. 2020) [text]

Malaysia: End Abusive Immigration Detention (Human Rights Watch, Nov. 2020) [text]

‘No one is looking at us anymore’: Migrant Detention and Covid-19 in Italy (Border Criminologies Blog, Nov. 2020) [text]

UK: Plans to Replicate Australia’s Maligned Offshore Detention Regime Ignore a Long History of Failure and Suffering (Global Detention Project, Oct. 2020) [text]

Journal articles:

"Creeping Crimmigration in CEAS Reform: Detention of Asylum-Seekers and Restrictions on Their Movement under EU Law," Refugee Survey Quarterly, Advance Articles, 3 Dec. 2020 [abstract]

*"Hazardous confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic: The fate of migrants detained yet nondeportable," Journal of Human Rights, vol. 19, no. 5 (2020) [free full-text]

- Focuses on France.

"Punishing Status and the Punishment Status Quo: Solitary Confinement in U.S. Immigration Prisons, 2013–2017," Punishment & Society, OnlineFirst, 29 Oct. 2020 [free full-text]

- See also related Border Criminologies blog post, which notes that this article will be free for three months.

"Securitisation of Female Asylum Seekers and Healthcare in Detention Centres in Texas," International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, vol. 6, no. 3 (2020) [ResearchGate]

Watch for: Law & Society Review Publishes Special Symposium on Immigration Detention (Law & Society Association, Nov. 2020) [text]

- Note: This issue has not yet been published.

Reports:

Azerbaijan: Armed Conflict, Pandemic, and Immigration Detention (Global Detention Project, Oct. 2020) [text]

COVID-19 Impacts on Immigration Detention: Global Responses (International Detention Coalition & Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative, Oct. 2020) [text]

Room for Hope: An Overview of Promising ATD in the Era of COVID-19 (International Detention Coalition, Oct. 2020) [access]

- Follow link for texts in English, Spanish, French and Arabic.

Multimedia:

COVID-19 and the Law: Immigration and Detention Centers/Comparative and International Issues, 4 Nov. 2020 [access]

- Follow link for video recording.

Voices from the Border: Detention and the Need for Humane Alternatives, 17 Nov. 2020 [access]

- Focuses on the US. Follow link for video recording.

*UPDATED

Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Detention - Pt. 1 (13 Oct. 2020)

- Thematic Focus: Detention - Pt. 2 (United States) (13 Oct. 2020)