23 September 2025

Thematic Focus: Detention - Pt. 2 (Other Countries)

Short pieces:

12 years on, Australia’s cruel offshore detention policies continue to leave refugees in limbo with no hope for the future (Amnesty International, July 2025) [text]

Deportations to Eswatini Reflect Unprecedented Expansion of U.S Detention Regime (Immigration Detention Monitor, July 2025) [text]

Dispatch from Guatemala: Five Alarming Trends in US Immigration Detention and Removal (WRC Blog, Aug. 2025) [text]

*Immigration Detention Ends in Provincial Jails Across Canada (Human Rights Watch, Sept. 2025) [text

*South Sudan: End four deportees’ arbitrary detention (Amnesty International, Sept. 2025) [text]

Sri Lanka: Detainees Decry Poor Conditions and Indefinite Detention in Welisara Detention Centre (Immigration Detention Monitor, Sept. 2025) [text]

View from The Hill: Albanese government resorts to whatever-it-takes to rid Australia of former detainees (The Conversation, Aug. 2025) [text]

Publications:

Accessing legal advice in detention: becoming an impossibility (Jesuit Refugee Service, July 2025) [text via EIN]
- Focuses on the UK.

From Surveillance to Empowerment: Advancing the Responsible Use of Technology in Alternatives to Detention (Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, Refugee Law Lab & International Detention Coalition, Sept. 2025) [access]

"'Hell before our very eyes': what makes a concentration camp?," Journal of Conflict Archaeology, vol. 20, no. 3 (2025) [open access]

"Immigration detention of children: a systematic review and meta-analysis of physical and mental health impacts," European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Latest Articles, 27 Aug. 2025 [open access]

A Legal Guide for People in Detention Facing Removal to France (BiD, Aug. 2025) [text via EIN]
- Focuses on the UK.

Medical Justice Annual Review: The state of healthcare and harm in UK immigration detention in 2024 (Medical Justice, July 2025) [text via EIN]

"Non-Care in the Detention Hotel: 20 Years of Australia’s Use of ‘Alternative Places of Detention’," Chapter in Refugee Reception and Camps: Local and Global Perspectives (Bristol Univ. Press, 2025) [open access]

*UPDATED

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