13 July 2023

Thematic Focus: Detention

Short pieces:

"Book Review: Visiting Immigration Detention. Care and Cruelty in Australia's Asylum-Seeker Prisons by Michelle Peterie," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 31 May 2023 [free full-text]

Canada – Rejecting and Promoting Migrant Detention, All in a Day’s Work (Immigration Detention Monitor, June 2023) [text]

Chile: Human Rights Monitoring Bodies Denounce Proposed Legal Reforms Increasing Detention Measures for Undocumented Migrants and Asylum Seekers (Immigration Detention Monitor, June 2023) [text]

Immigration detention continues in Canada despite the end of provincial agreements (The Conversation, June 2023) [text]

Reports & book chapters:   

Detained Asylum Casework in the United Kingdom: A review of decision-making in the Detained 
Asylum Casework Procedure (UNHCR, June 2023) [text]

Impact of Prolonged Immigration Detention on Rohingya Families and Communities in Malaysia (Protecting Rohingya Refugees in Asia Project, May 2023) [text via MMC]

"IOM’s Immigration Detention Practices and Policies: Human Rights, Positive Obligations and Humanitarian Duties," Chapter in IOM Unbound? Obligations and Accountability of the International Organization for Migration in an Era of Expansion (Cambridge Univ. Press, June 2023) [open access]

Locked Away: The Urgent Need for Immigration Detention Bond Reform (National Immigrant Justice Center, May 2023) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

The Use of Hotels as Alternative Places of Detention (Australian Human Rights Commission, June 2023) [text]

Journal articles:

"Embodying Resistance: Politics and the Mobilization of Vulnerability," Theory, Culture & Society, OnlineFirst, 22 June 2023 [open access]
- "How are we to understand hunger strikes and episodes of lip-sewing in immigration detention? ...I illustrate my argument by exploring, in particular, the protests that took place at Woomera immigration detention centre in Australia in 2002."

"Freedom in the Balance: Procedural Due Process Rights and the Burden of Proof in Detention Hearings in Immigration Removal Proceedings," William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, vol. 31, no. 4 (2023) [full-text]
- Focuses on the US.

"The impact of immigration detention on the mental health of refugees and asylum seekers," Journal of Traumatic Stress, vol. 36, no. 3 (June 2023) [open access]
- Focuses on Australia.

"Incarcerating the Innocent: Inside Canada's Immigration Detention Centres," Flux: International Relations Review, vol. 13, no. 2 (2023) [open access]

"Mass E-Carceration: Electronic Monitoring as a Bail Condition," Utah Law Review, vol. 2023, no. 3 (2023) [full-text]
- Focuses on the US.

"Promoting Healing and Avoiding Retraumatization: A Proposal to Improve Mental Health Care for Detained Unaccompanied Minors Through a Best Interests of the Child Standard," William & Mary Law Review, vol. 64, no. 5 (2023) [full-text]
- Focuses on the US.

Multimedia:

Detention and return: protecting the rights of stateless people, 30 May 2023 [access]
- Focuses on Europe.

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