Thematic Focus: Detention

Short pieces:

Canada: All 10 Provinces to End Immigration Detention in Jails (Human Rights Watch, March 2024) [text]

Child immigration detention must be prohibited following adoption of EU migration and asylum pact, UN experts say (OHCHR, May 2024) [text]

Detaining migrants in prisons violates human rights and risks abuses (The Conversation, April 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Canada.

Detention Landscapes: Mapping Violence in Immigration Detention in Greece (Border Criminologies Blog, April 2024) [text]

Number of Immigrant Detainees Arrested by ICE Continues to Increase (TRAC, April 2024) [text via ImmigrationProf Blog]

- Focuses on the US.

"UN declined offers to assist Uyghur asylum seekers detained in Thailand," The New Humanitarian, 2 May 2024 [text]

- See also related story in La Croix International.

Reports & journal articles:

"Australian Immigration Detention: Institutional Allocation of Power as Rights Protection?," Chapter in Oxford Handbook of Comparative immigration Law (Oxford Univ. Press, Forthcoming 2024) [preprint]

"Decarceration to Reduce COVID-19 Infections in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention Facilities: A Simulation Modeling Study," Preprints with The Lancet, 19 April 2024 [SSRN]

Medical Care Standards in Immigrant Detention Facilities (Congressional Research Service, April 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

"Miscarriages of Justice in Immigration Detention," UBC Law Review (Forthcoming, 2024) [preprint]

- Focuses on Canada.

"'On Their Own Terms': Agency, Advocacy and Representation in Refugee Webcomics," Journal of Australian Studies, Latest Articles, 25 April 2024 [open access]

- "This article reads [Villawood: Notes from an Immigration Detention Centre (2015)] as an example of the vital rhetorical and representative work done by webcomics to expose the violences of Australia’s border spaces and put the personal stories of detainees in dialogue with vast audiences online."

"Perceived Detention Environment and Mental Health of Detainees in Immigration Detention Centers in Spain," Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, Latest Articles, 22 March 2024 [open access]

Urgent Appeal on the Detention and Refoulement of Sudanese Refugees in Egypt (Global Detention Project & Committee for Justice, April 2024) [text]

- See also related GDP blog post and New Humanitarian article.

Multimedia:

The Hidden Costs Podcast Series (The Unchained Collective) [access via Border Criminologies]

- Follow link for three episodes, accompanied by related reflections.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Detention (30 March 2024)