14 May 2026

Thematic Focus: Detention

Short pieces:

MSF General Assembly Keynote: The Global Expansion of Immigration Detention, “Unleashed from Human Rights” (Global Detention Project, April 2026) [text]

Reengineering detention: Why ICE’s shift from prison to warehouse calls for a new analysis (Border Criminologies Blog, April 2026) [text]
- See also related ACLU post.

Serbia: Rights at Risk Amidst Ongoing Ad Hoc, De-Facto Detention (Immigration Detention Monitor, April 2026) [text]

When immigration detention becomes a system of concentration: Lessons from research on 150 historical cases (The Conversation, May 2026) [text]

Reports:

Inside Lukavica: Bosnia’s Immigration Detention Black Box (Collective Aid, May 2026) [text via Immigration Detention Monitor]

What ICE’s Data on Pregnant, Postpartum, and Lactating Women in ICE Detention Really Shows (Women's Refugee Commission, April 2026) [text]
- See also request for submissions to the WRC's Detention Pregnancy Tracker.

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Australian media's response to the end of indefinite detention: towards a rights-based treatment of people seeking asylum?," Media International Australia, OnlineFirst, 28 Feb. 2026 [open access]

"Crimigración: un análisis feminista del encarcelamiento de jóvenes mexicanos indocumentados en Estados Unidos de América," Migraciones Internacionales, vol. 17 (2026) [open access]
- Available in both Spanish and English.

"Detention-Related Health Harms Among Recently Deported Central American Immigrants," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 7 May 2026 [open access]
- Focuses on the US.

"Do street-level bureaucrats have discretionary power? Analysing the immigration detention policy implementation from the perspective of organizational power struggles in Belgian ‘closed centres'," Political Research Exchange: An ECPR Journal, vol. 8, no. 1 (2026) [open access]

"Ghosts of the Afterlife of Violence: the Traces of Racial Capitalism in the Carceral Practices of Remote Detention and Punishment of Refugees," Chapter in Racial Capitalism: In the Shadow of the Swedish Model (Brill, April 2026) [open access]
- Focuses on Australia and Sweden.

"Minor Wives: Married Girls in US Immigration Detention," Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 14, no. 2 (June 2026) [full-text]

"Substandard medical care of detained immigrant children experiencing common acute illnesses: evidence from a U.S. family immigration detention facility," International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, EarlyCite, 21 April 2026 [postprint]

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