16 February 2024

Thematic Focus: Detention

Short pieces:

France: New Immigration Law Ends Detention of Children but Eases Deportation (Immigration Detention Monitor, Feb. 2024) [text]

Immigration Detention in Police Stations in Greece: A Persistent and Cruel Practice (Border Criminologies Blog, Feb. 2024) [text]

The Long Overdue Fall of Al-Kateb: NZYQ and the end of Australia’s indefinite detention regime (Verfassungs Blog, Dec. 2023) [text]

Russia reforms immigration detention laws after decade-long campaign (ENS, Jan. 2024) [text]

Shoring Borders, Dismantling Humanity: Greece’s Detention of Asylum Seekers and the Immunization Paradigm (Border Criminologies Blog, Feb. 2024) [text]

Reports:

End Immigration Detention of Children (United Nations Task Force on Children Deprived of Liberty, Feb. 2024) [text]

"Endless Nightmare": Torture and Inhuman Treatment in Solitary Confinement in U.S. Immigration Detention (Harvard Univ. & Physicians for Human Rights, Feb. 2024) [text]

ICE Major Surgeries Were Not Always Properly Reviewed and Approved for Medical Necessity (Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Jan. 2024) [text]
- Focuses on the US. See also related blog post.

Immigrants Pay $2 Billion in ICE Bonds Since FY 2017 (TRAC, Feb. 2024) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

People on Electronic Monitoring (Vera Institute of Justice, Jan. 2024) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

Report to the United Kingdom Government on the visit to the United Kingdom carried out by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) from 27 March to 6 April 2023 (Feb. 2024) [access]
- Follow link for report and UK response.

Journal articles:

"Immigration Detention Abolition and the Violence of Digital Cages," Colorado Law Review, vol. 95, no. 1 (2024) [full-text]
- Focuses on the US.

"Mental Health Consultations in Immigration Detention: What Can We Learn From Clinical Records?," International Journal of Public Health, 25 Jan. 2024 [open access]
- Focuses on Switzerland.

"Pre-entry screening and border procedures as new detention landscape in the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: The Spanish borders as a laboratory for immobility policies," Peace & Security = Paix et Sécurité Internationales, vol. 12, no. 12 (2024) [open access]

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