Thematic Focus: Detention

News:

Indefinite immigration detention unlawful: High Court rules (Kaldor Centre & Human Rights Law Centre, Nov. 2023) [text]

- Note: Both organizations jointly submitted an amicus curiae brief in this case. See also related memo referenced below. 

For additional news, statements and commentary, see:

- "Australia to release asylum seekers in indefinite detention after landmark ruling," Reuters, 9 Nov. 2023 [text]

- "Documents reveal details about the 92 people facing release from indefinite immigration detention in Australia," The Guardian, 9 Nov. 2023 [text]

- The High Court has decided indefinite detention is unlawful. What happens now? (The Conversation, Nov. 2023) [text]

- ‘I have no rights’: what happens to stateless people in Australia after the High Court’s ruling? (The Conversation, Nov. 2023) [text]

- Landmark Australian Ruling Rejects Indefinite Immigration Detention (Human Rights Watch, Nov. 2023) [text]

- UNHCR statement on Australia’s High Court decision on indefinite detention (Nov. 2023) [text]

Short pieces:

"Commentary: The enduring harm from permanent offshore processing arrangements in the Pacific Islands," Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, vol. 47, no. 6 (Dec. 2023) [open access]

Europe: The Spectre of Detention Looms across the Continent as Immigration Pressures Grow (Immigration Detention Monitor, Nov. 2023) [text]

Extended Detention Compounds Trauma for Thousands of Child Victims of Terrorism in Syria Camps (Just Security Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]

Hotels as Alternative Places of Detention (Asylum Insight, Sept. 2023) [text]

- Focuses on Australia.

Malawi’s Encampment Policy: Forced Relocations and Detentions (Immigration Detention Monitor, Nov. 2023) [text]

The Psychological Harm of Immigration Detention (Border Criminologies Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

*Shades of Carcerality? Reflections on Asylum Accommodation in Italy, France and the UK (Border Criminologies Blog, Nov. 2023) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Arbitrary Detention of Mexican Citizens by Mexican Immigration Authorities," International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, vol. 12, no. 2 (2023) [open access]

- See also related blog post.

"The black book on Turin's pre-removal detention center (CPR): When legal turns political," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 13 Oct. 2023 [open access]

- Focuses on Italy.

"Evaluation of the US detention standards to protect the health and dignity of migrants: a systematic review of national health standards," BMJ Open, vol. 13, no. 4 (2023) [open access]

Memo on international law and the rules governing the expulsion of non-citizens (Kaldor Centre, Oct. 2023) [text]

- This memo "sets out the international law relevant to the upcoming landmark High Court challenge to the Australian government’s power to hold people in immigration detention indefinitely."

"The next jailor: An empirical study of danger to the public immigration detentions in Canada (Summer 2021)," Punishment & Society, OnlineFirst, 20 Sept. 2023 [open access] 

Towards the Abolition of the Immigration Detention of Children in the United States, Legal Studies Research Paper, no. 10 (Saint Louis Univ., Sept. 2023) [text]

- See also related blog post.

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Detention (2 Sept. 2023)