Thematic Focus: Detention

Short pieces:

Bibby Stockholm: legionella is not the only health threat on the asylum barge (The Conversation, Aug. 2023) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

Biden Keeps Ties with Billion-Dollar Business of Immigration Detention, Despite Reports of Serious Abuse (Immigration Impact Blog, Aug. 2023) [text]

"Government's own experts found "barbaric" and "negligent" conditions in ICE detention," NPR, 16 Aug. 2023 [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Migrants and Asylum Seekers Face Violent Attacks, Then Detention, at Saudi Border (Immigration Detention Monitor, Aug. 2023) [text]

The Threat of Detention for Myanmar Refugees in India (Immigration Detention Monitor, Aug. 2023) [text]

Reports:

Alternatives to Immigration Detention in Contexts with Transit Migration (International Detention Coalition, July 2023) [text]

Alternatives to Detention in the Proposed EU Migration Pact: Preliminary Scoping Paper (International Detention Coalition, July 2023) [text]

Discretionary Immigration Detention, Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper, no. 607 (SSRN, Aug. 2023) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

Evaluation of the Refugee and Migrant Advice Service’s Alternative to Detention Pilot, EVO/2023/11 (UNHCR, Aug. 2023) [text]

- Focuses on the UK. See also related summary.

'Finish this Crisis': Stories exposing the horrors of offshore detention (Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, July 2023) [text]

- Focuses on Australia.

Unchecked Growth: Private Prison Corporations and Immigration Detention, Three Years Into the Biden Administration (ACLU, Aug. 2023) [text]

Journal articles:

"Environmental Health Rights and Concepts of Vulnerability of Immigration Detainees in Europe Before and Beyond COVID-19," Journal of Human Rights Practice, vol. 15, no. 2 (2023) [open access]

"#ForeignersMustGo versus 'in favorem libertatis': Human rights violations and procedural irregularities in South African immigration detention law," Journal of Human Rights, vol. 22, no. 4 (2023) [open access]

"Gaps in Human Rights Law? Detention and Area-Based Restrictions in the Proposed Border Procedures in the EU," European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 25, no. 3 (2023) [open access]

The Politics of Pain in Immigration Detention," Punishment & Society, vol. 25, no. 2 (April 2023) [postprint]

- Focuses on the UK.

"Refugee Detention as Constructive Refoulement," Yale Journal of International Law, vol. 48, no. 1 (2023) [full-text]

- Focuses on the US.

"Studying the Hazy Line Between Procedure and Substance in Immigrant Detention Litigation," Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, vol. 58, no. 1 (Winter 2023) [full-text]

- Focuses on the US.

"What are we afraid of? Exploring risk and immigration detention," Migration Studies, vol. 9, no. 1 (2021) [postprint]

- Focuses on the UK. The embargo for accessing the full-text of this postprint has now ended.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Detention (13 July 2023)