25 March 2026

Thematic Focus: Detention

Short pieces:

Caged Histories: Violence, Resistance, and the Work of Making Detention Visible (Border Criminologies Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]
- Focuses on Greece.

Cameroon: Another Third-Country Removal Scheme Ending with Detention (Immigration Detention Monitor, Feb. 2026) [text]

Canada’s immigration detention system has a racism problem (Border Criminologies Blog, March 2026) [text]

(In)access to legal advice in detention: UK research shows systemic failures (Border Criminologies Blog, March 2026) [text]

Legal refugees now face long detention after DHS reinterprets law on applying for a green card after a year (The Conversation, March 2026) [text]
- Focuses on the US. See also related post on The Asylumist.

Libya: EU Plans in Eastern Libya Threaten Increased “Pullbacks” and Detentions (Immigration Detention Monitor, March 2026) [text]

Motherhood in Detention (Immigration Lab Blog, Feb. 2026) [text]

Syria’s Al-Hol Camp is Closed, But Another Remains, as Does International Responsibility (Just Security, Feb. 2026) [text]

Why Australia needs a plan to repatriate citizens detained in Syria (Women's Agenda, Feb. 2026) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Dignity Not Detention: How States Can Prohibit Immigration Detention Contracts and Why They Should," NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, vol. 28 (Forthcoming, 2026) [preprint]
- Focuses on the US.

"Incalculable Harm: Analyzing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Immigration Detention in Canada," Ottawa Law Review, vol. 56, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Life in Limbo: Asylum Detention and the Environmental Conditions of Hope," Journal of the American Philosophical Association, FirstView, 28 Jan. 2026 [open access]

Race and Racism in Canada’s Immigration Detention System (Univ. of British Columbia, 2026) [text]
- See also related Border Criminologies blog post.

Words and Bond: Detention Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, Legal Studies Research Paper, no. 226 (Roger Williams Univ., March 2026) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

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