17 January 2021

Thematic Focus: Detention

Opportunity:

Webinar: State of Emergency and Immigration Detention: The Grey Areas of the Right to Liberty, 26 January 2021 [info]

Blog posts:

Accessing Human Rights in Immigration Detention in Greece (Border Criminologies Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

Australia attempted to avoid responsibility for human rights abuses in Indonesian detention centres, Cabinet papers reveal (Asher Hirsch, Jan. 2021) [text]

Can Libya’s migrant-detention system be reformed? (Global Initiative, Dec. 2020) [text]

The Pact and Detention: An Empty Promise of ‘certainty, clarity and decent conditions’ (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, Jan. 2021) [text]

Reports:

Immigration Detention in Colombia: At the Crossroads of the Americas (Global Detention Project, Dec. 2020) [text]

Immigration Detention in Paraguay: The Non-Detention Norm Versus Mandatory COVID Quarantine (Global Detention Project, Dec. 2020) [text]

Inspections of Australia's immigration detention facilities: 2019 Report (Australian Human Rights Commission, Dec. 2020) [access]

Locked and Excluded: Informal and illegal detention in Spain, Greece, Italy and Germany (Migreurop, Dec. 2020) [access]
- Executive summaries available in French, Spanish and Italian.

Praying for Hand Soap and Masks: Health and Human Rights Violations in U.S. Immigration Detention during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Physicians for Human Rights, Jan. 2021) [access]
- Follow link for report in English and executive summaries in English and Spanish.

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Alternatives to Immigration Detention in International and EU Law: Control Standards and Judicial Interaction in a Heterarchy," Chapter in Law and Judicial Dialogue on the Return of Irregular Migrants from the European Union (Hart Publishing, 2020) [Academia]

"The Impact of COVID-19 on Immigration Detention," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, prov. accepted 16 Dec. 2020 [abstract]
- Focuses on the US. Note: The full-text of this open access article will be made available soon.

"Overcoming the Labyrinth: A Guide for Immigration Attorneys to Assert Habeas Corpus," N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change (Forthcoming) [preprint]
- Focuses on the US.

"The Reinvention of Immigration Detention in Italy in the Aftermath of the 'Refugee Crisis': A Study of Parliamentary Records (2013–2018)," Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 3 (Sept. 2020) [Academia]

Multimedia:

Off-Shore Immigration Detention: Jewish History & Future Trajectories, 10 Jan. 2021 [access] [info]
- Focuses on the UK. A video recording of this discussion is available via the René Cassin Facebook page.

Resources:

Child Detention Crisis (Justice in Motion) [access]
- A set of "free resources for legal service providers and other U.S. advocates working with detained children."

Immigration Detention Standards Navigator (boniĝi monitoring) [access]
- "A free, dynamic and easy way to search and navigate the international detention standards and best practices that apply to immigration detainees."

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