Thematic Focus: Detention

Blog posts & press:

Australia: Act on UN Review Pledges (Human Rights Watch, July 2021) [text]

Ongoing violence against detained migrants forces MSF to suspend Tripoli detention centre activities (MSF, June 2021) [text]

Prison-based Immigration Courts in the United States (Border Criminologies Blog, July 2021) [text]

Thinking Solidarity Through Immigration Detention Visiting (Border Criminologies Blog, June 2021) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

Reports & journal articles:

Behind Closed Doors: Abuse & Retaliation Against Hunger Strikers in U.S. Immigration Detention (ACLU & Physicians for Human Rights, June 2021) [text]

- See also related Just Security blog post.

“I Didn’t Feel Like a Human in There": Immigration Detention in Canada and Its Impact on Mental Health (Amnesty International & Human Rights Watch, June 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Immigration Detention in South Africa: Stricter Control of Administrative Detention, Increasing Criminal Enforcement of Migration (Global Detention Project, June 2021) [text]

The Impact of COVID-19 on the Human Rights of Migrants: Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants (Global Detention Project, June 2021) [text]

Management of COVID-19 risks in immigration detention (Australian Human Rights Commission, June 2021) [text]

“Trinh v. Homan: The Indefinite Detention of Vietnamese Refugees in the 21st Century,” Southern California Review of Law and Social Justice, vol. 30, no. 3 (Summer 2021) [text]

"Women for Profit - Seeking Asylum in the United States: A Neocolonial Story," Chapter in Dignity in Movement: Borders, Bodies and Rights (E-International Relations, 2021) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Detention (16 June 2021)