28 May 2025

Thematic Focus: Detention

Short pieces:

50+ Venezuelans Imprisoned in El Salvador Came to US Legally, Never Violated Immigration Law (CATO At Liberty Blog, May 2025) [text]

The Absence of "State Secrets" in US-El Salvador Agreement: On Removal and Imprisonment of Non-US Citizens (Just Security, May 2025) [text]

Another Abrego Garcia, and the Administration’s "Contrivance" to Keep Him in El Salvador’s Prison (Just Security, May 2025) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

Breaking the Chains of Indefinite Detention: Application of Existing Legal Frameworks to Protect Refugee Rights in Thailand (RLI Blog, May 2025) [text]

[Detention and Deportation] (Border Criminologies Blog, May 2025) [access]
- A series about "methodological reflections arising from a...thematic group workshop." Three posts are currently available, focusing on Greece, the US, and the UK, respectively.

Greece: Growing Pressure to End Pushbacks and Prevent Abuses in Migrant Detention Sites (Immigration Detention Monitor, May 2025) [text]

New study finds detention of undocumented migrants and forced return to country of origin ineffective and contrary to fundamental rights (Univ. of Barcelona, May 2025) [text]
- The research project focused on six European Union countries (Germany, Belgium, Slovenia, Spain, Italy and Sweden).

Oversight is Critical for Women and Girls in Detention (Women's Refugee Commission, May 2025) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

What is Habeas Corpus and Why is It Important? Here’s What DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Got Wrong (Immigration Impact Blog, May 2025) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

"Trump migrant detentions at Guantanamo Bay cost $100,000 per person daily, senator says," Reuters, 20 May 2025 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Dehumanized by Design: Human Rights Violations in El Paso (Amnesty International, May 2025) [text]
- Details "human rights violations against immigrants detained at the El Paso Service Processing Center (EPSPC)."

"Feeding migrants to cultivate a moral self: an analysis of food relief in U.S. and Mexican migration control," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 16 May 2025 [open access]
- "Our focus is on how frontline immigration agents use food to extend favourable discretion to certain migrants in U.S. and Mexican immigration detention."

"From Borders to Cells: The Evolution of British Immigration Detention, 1905-1970," Mémoire(s), identité(s), marginalité(s) dans le monde occidental contemporain: Cahiers du MIMMOC, no. 31 (2025) [open access]

"Upholding the Absolute Prohibition of Torture: AfCHPR on Detention in Tanzania," Human Rights Brief, vol. 28, no. 1 (2025) [full-text]
- Focuses on a case involving "two Burundian nationals who, as refugees in Tanzania, were implicated in a murder-for-hire scheme."

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