Thematic Focus: Detention

Blog posts & press:

Record number of immigrants funneled into alternative detention programs (The Hill, Nov. 2021) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

"'Time can break your heart': the harsh toll of eight years in Australian immigration detention," The Guardian, 1 Nov. 2021 [text]

Undocumented Tunisian Migrants: Italy’s Use of Inhumane Detention as a Deterrence Strategy (Jadaliyya, Oct. 2021) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Czech Litigation on Systematic Detention of Asylum Seekers: Ripple Effects across Europe," European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 23, no. 3 (2021) [preprint]

Detained and Forgotten at the Gates of the EU: Detention of Migrants on the Island of Kos (Equal Rights Beyond Borders, Nov. 2021) [text]

Detention as the default: How Greece, with the support of the EU, is generalizing administrative detention of migrants (Oxfam, Nov. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Detention Decisions: Implementation Rationales of the Bureaucratic Use of Immigration Detention in Swiss Cantons," Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, Latest Articles, 3 Dec. 2021 [open access]

Dismantling Detention: International Alternatives to Detaining Immigrants (Human Rights Watch, Nov. 2021) [text]

- "[E]xamines alternatives to detention in six countries: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Spain, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States."

Immigration Detention in Turkey: Trapped at the Crossroad Between Asia and Europe (Global Detention Project, Oct. 2021) [text]

"The Impact of Pretrial Detention on Immigration Proceedings," Columbia Law Review, vol. 121, no. 5 (2021) [full-text]

- Focuses on the US.

Libya: Humanitarian situation in detention centres (ACAPS, Nov. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Prevalence of psychiatric disorders among refugees and migrants in immigration detention: systematic review with meta-analysis," BJPsych Open, vol. 7, no. 6 (2021) [open access]

"Protection, Crime and Punishment: Regulation at the Nexus of Crimmigration and Refugee Law," Chapter in Research Handbook on the Law and Politics of Migration (Edward Elgar, 2021) [preprint]

- Focuses on Australia.

"The Secretive Prisons That Keep Migrants Out of Europe," New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2021 [text]

- Focuses on Libya.

U.S. Detention of Child Migrants: Background (Council on Foreign Relations, updated Dec. 2021) [text]

Multimedia:

Fact-Finding in Immigration Detention Reviews: Evidence Law Meets Administrative Law, 30 Sept. & 1 Oct. 2021 [access]

- This workshop focused primarily on the Canadian context but also included sessions on how evidence is handled in immigration detention proceedings in Spain and the US. See also related blog post.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Detention (4 Oct. 2021)