Thematic Focus: Detention

Short pieces:

Detained Immigrant Population Grows to Nearly 40,000, the Highest Point in Nearly Four Years (TRAC News, Nov. 2023) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

The EU support for alternatives to immigration detention in Türkiye: a curious case at odds with EU’s external migration policy? (EU Immigration & Asylum Law & Policy Blog, Jan. 2024) [text]

*First Immigrant Detention Numbers of 2024 Show New Norm (TRAC, Jan. 2024) [text]

Indefinite detention is finally declared unlawful in Australia: what next? (RLI Blog, Jan. 2024) [text]

- See also related post on The Conversation and blog series on Border Criminologies.

Mandatory Detention is Cruel, Unnecessary, and Wasteful: Factsheet (Human Rights First, Dec. 2023) [text]

- Focuses on the US.

The Multiple Exclusions of Immigration Detainees in UK Prisons (Border Criminologies Blog, Jan. 2024) [text]

What is the government’s preventative detention bill? Here’s how the laws will work and what they mean for Australia’s detention system (The Conversation, Dec. 2023) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"You’re going to die here": Abuse in Abu Salim and Ain Zara detention centres, Briefing Note (Médecins Sans Frontières, Dec. 2023) [text]

- Focuses on Libya.

"Emergency Medical Responses at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention Centers in California," JAMA Network Open, 6(11):e2345540 (Nov. 2023) [open access]

- See also related commentary.

"Health and health care in Australian immigration detention: a comparison between onshore and offshore data," International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, Early Cite, 12 Dec. 2023 [postprint]

"Multiple functions of immigration detention: Police measures in the governance of mobile populations," Punishment & Society, OnlineFirst, 15 Dec. 2023 [open access]

- Focuses on Finland.

*"Objective 13: Use Migration Detention Only as a Measure of Last Resort and Work towards Alternatives," Chapter in Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: A Commentary (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming) [preprint]

"Peripheral Detention, Transfer, and Access to the Courts," Michigan Law Review, vol. 122, no. 5 (Forthcoming, 2024) [full-text via SSRN]

- Focuses on the US.

"Reviewing the Reviews: The Global Compacts' Added Value in Access to Asylum Procedures and Immigration Detention," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 22 Nov. 2023 [open access]

"A safe haven? Women's experiences of violence in Australian immigration detention," Punishment & Society, OnlineFirst, 20 Nov. 2023 [open access]

*"Special Proceedings and Alternatives to Detention for Migrant and Refugee Children," Biuletyn Stowarzyszenia Absolwentów i Przyjaciół Wydziału Prawa Katolickiego, OnlineFirst, 9 Jan. 2024 [open access]

- Focuses on Poland.

"Well-Being, Changes to Academic Behavior, and Resilience Among Families Experiencing Parental Immigration Imprisonment," American Behavioral Scientist, OnlineFirst, 21 Dec. 2023 [open access]

- Focuses on the US.

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Detention (10 Nov. 2023)

Thematic Focus: Health - Pt. 1

New resource:

Humanitarian Health Digest, no. 1 (First Quarter 2018) [full-text]

- "[I]naugural issue of the Humanitarian Health Digest—a quarterly bibliography of published peer-reviewed journal articles on humanitarian health. The Digest is compiled by the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health and The Lancet. It includes one or two new commentaries on peer-reviewed articles cited in the Digest." The comments in this issue focus on palliative care and health care for Palestinian refugees.

Publications:

"The Brotherhood Medical Center: Collaborative Foundation of Maternity and Children’s Healthcare Facility for Displaced Syrians," Frontiers in Public Health, 6:108 (April 2018) [open access]

'Everyone and Everything is a Target': The Impact on Children of Attacks on Health Care and Denial of Humanitarian Access in South Sudan (Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict, April 2018) [text via ReliefWeb]

Health Care Cuts: Australia’s Reduced Health Care Support for Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Papua New Guinea (Amnesty International, May 2018) [text via ReliefWeb]

Refugees, Healthcare and Crises: Informal Syrian Health Workers in Lebanon (IIED, April 2018) [text]
- See also earlier related briefing paper.

"Use of the Emergency Department by Refugees under the Interim Federal Health Program: A Health Records Review," PLoS ONE 13(5): e0197282 (May 2018) [open access]

Related posts:
- Thematic Focus: Health - Pt. 1 (27 April 2018)
- Thematic Focus: Health - Pt. 2 (27 April 2018)

Tagged Publications.

Thematic Focus: Health Issues in Europe

"Differences in the Prevalence of Hospitalizations and Utilization of Emergency Outpatient Services for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions between Asylum-seeking Children and Children of the General Population: A Cross-sectional Medical Records Study (2015)," BMC Health Services Research, 17:731 (Nov. 2017) [open access]

"Ethical Aspects of Medical Age Assessment in the Asylum Process: A Swedish Perspective," International Journal of Legal Medicine, OnlineFirst, 11 Nov. 2017 [open access]

"Forced Migrants Involved in Setting the Agenda and Designing Research to Reduce Impacts of Complex Emergencies: Combining Swarm with Patient and Public Involvement," Research Involvement and Engagement, 3:23 (Nov. 2017) [open access]

"Health Challenges in Refugee Reception: Dateline Europe 2016," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14(12) (Nov. 2017) [open access]

"Hepatitis A Virus Infections and Outbreaks in Asylum Seekers Arriving to Germany, September 2015 to March 2016," Emerging Microbes & Infections, 6(4): e26 (April 2017) [open access]

A Review of Evidence on Equitable Delivery, Access and Utilization of Immunization Services for Migrants and Refugees in the WHO European Region, Health Evidence Network Synthesis Report, no. 53 (WHO, Nov. 2017) [text via ReliefWeb]

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Health (6 Dec. 2017)

Tagged Publications.

Thematic Focus: Economic Contributions of Refugees/Immigrants in the U.S.

As this recent article in the Migration Information Source pointed out, Mr. Trump's Executive Orders relating to refugees and immigration "mandate sweeping data collection and reporting on immigrants and refugees in ways that seek to underscore societal and economic costs with no countervailing attention to positive effects from immigration." (emphasis added)

In the interest of providing some of that countervailing attention, here are a few stories that focus on the positive contributions of refugees and immigrants:

"As More Americans Fail Drug Tests, Employers Turn to Refugees," CNN, 27 March 2017 [text]

"Can Refugees Save a Town?," Christian Science Monitor, 28 Feb. 2017 [text]

"How Immigrants are Helping Detroit’s Recovery," The Economist, 16 Feb. 2017 [text]

"The Jobs Americans Do," New York Times Magazine, 23 Feb. 2017 [text]
- Several stories profile the work of immigrants/refugees.

"Lacking E.M.T.s, an Aging Maine Turns to Immigrants," New York Times, 27 March 2017 [text]

"A Surprising Salve for New York’s Beleaguered Cities: Refugees," New York Times, 20 Feb. 2017 [text]

"A Tale of Two Kansas Towns: One Thrives as Another Struggles," NPR, 18 Feb. 2017 [text]

For more stories about/analysis of how refugees and immigrants (both unauthorized immigrants and immigrants working in different sectors) help the U.S. economy, browse the New American Economy web site.

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: United States (27 March 2017)
- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects (23 March 2017)

Tagged Publications and Web Sites/Tools.

New Book Titles

[I am re-circulating this post to reflect the addition of another new title under "New Legal Texts" below.]

Please visit my Pinterest page to learn about new books due out in January 2016. I've also added information about a few new titles to the December 2015 and New Legal Texts book boards.

If you are not a member of Pinterest, these new titles are listed below for your reference (organized by title).

Jan. 2016:

Hari Mohan Mathur, ed., Assessing the Social Impact of Development Projects: Experience in India and Other Asian Countries, Springer, Jan. 2016

Ben Rawlence, City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp, Picador Publishing, Jan. 2016

Mark Schuller, Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti, Rutgers University Press, Jan. 2016

Megan Bradley, Ibrahim Fraihat & Houda Mzioudet, Libya's Displacement Crisis: Uprooted by Revolution and Civil War, Georgetown University Press, Jan. 2016

Adam Rostis, Organizing Disaster: The Construction of Humanitarianism, Emerald Publishing, Jan. 2016
- Note: The Emerald catalogue indicates this title will be published 21 Jan. 2016.

Dec. 2015:

Claire Alexander, Joya Chatterji & Annu Jalais, The Bengal Diaspora: Rethinking Muslim Migration, Routledge, Dec. 2015

Sabrina Habich, Dams, Migration and Authoritarianism in China: The Local State in Yunnan, Routledge, Dec. 2015

Dina Siegel & Roos de Wildt, eds., Ethical Concerns in Research on Human Trafficking, Springer, Dec. 2015

Roxane Richter, Medical Outcasts: Gendered and Institutionalized Xenophobia in Undocumented Forced Migrants' Emergency Health Care, Rowman & Littlefield, Dec. 2015

New Legal Texts:

Kay Hailbronner & Daniel Thym, eds., EU Immigration and Asylum Law: A Commentary, 2nd ed., Hart Publishing, Jan. 2016

*Cathryn Costello, The Human Rights of Migrants and Refugees in European Law, Oxford University Press, Dec. 2015

*UPDATED

Tagged Books.

Regional Focus: Oceania

Australia’s Asylum Seeker Policy (La Trobe University, Nov. 2013) [access]
- Follow link for podcast.

"Carceral Society on Guam and Saipan: US Territorial Struggles over Asylum, Entry, and Exclusion in the Margins," Society and Space, 24 Sept. 2013 [text]

Darwin Detention: Damaging Children (Chilout, Dec. 2013) [text]
- Report of a "Visit to Darwin Alternative Places of Detention December 6th-8th, 2013."  See also related Guardian news article.

Of Relative Rights and Putative Children: Rethinking the Critical Framework for the Protection of Refugee Children and Youth, Sydney Law School Research Paper, no. 13/95 (University of Sydney, Dec. 2013) [text via SSRN]

Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Finding a Better Way (Australia 21, Dec. 2013) [text]
- "This is a collection of essays by an unprecedented range of Australian leaders in the law, military, human rights, religion and politics as well as refugees themselves, all seeking new ways of framing the public conversation about refugees and asylum seekers."

"Use of Royal Darwin Hospital Emergency Department by Immigration Detainees in 2011," Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 199, no. 11 (2013) [full-text]

Tagged Publications.

Free Articles from Cambridge Journals

Do you read any journals published by Cambridge University Press?  If yes, you may be interested to know that CUP is celebrating 15 years of journals online with an offer of free access to selected articles.  Just visit the home page of a journal you follow, and click on the gold tab labeled "CJO Birthday Offer" for a list of free articles.  The offer is good until 3 October 2012.

Here are a few journal titles that I am familiar with:

International Review of the Red Cross: 1961-1997 Archive [access]

International Review of the Red Cross [access]
- Although note that the ICRC web site provides free full-text access to issues dating back to 1997.

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine [access]

Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law [access]

Tagged Publications. 

Refugee Health Bibliography

As a follow-up to yesterday's post, here is a list of some essential reading recommended by Jeff Crisp, Head of UNHCR's Policy Development and Evaluation Service (PDES), specifically relating to refugee health.  Most articles are free or open access.

"Child Acute Malnutrition and Mortality in Populations Affected by Displacement in the Horn of Africa, 1997–2009," International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 9, no. 3 (March 2012) [text]

"If You Could Only Choose Five Psychotropic Medicines: Updating the Interagency Emergency Health Kit," PLoS Medicine, vol. 8, no. 5:  e1001030 (May 2011) [text]

"Measles — Horn of Africa, 2010–2011," Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, vol. 61, no. 34 (Aug. 2012) [text]

"Neonatal Survival Interventions in Humanitarian Emergencies: A Survey of Current Practices and  Programs," Conflict and Health 6:2 (July 2012) [text]

"Reportable Neurologic Diseases in Refugee Camps in 19 Countries," Neurology, vol. 79, no. 9 (Aug. 2012) [abstract]
- Even though the complete text of this article is not available online, you can listen to a free podcast interview with one of the author's (scroll down to 28 Aug. 2012) and take a related Continuing Medical Education (CME) exam online.

"Refugee Site Health Service Utilization: More Needs to be Done," American Journal of Disaster Medicine, vol. 6, no. 4 (July/Aug. 2011) [abstract]

"Six Rapid Assessments of Alcohol and Other Substance Use in Populations Displaced by Conflict," Conflict and Health 5:1 (Feb. 2011) [text]

"The State of the World's Refugees: Adapting Health Responses to Urban Environments," JAMA, vol. 308, no. 7 (Aug. 2012) [text]

"United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Feeding Program Performance in Kenya and Tanzania: A Retrospective Analysis of Routine Health Information System Data," Food and Nutrition Bulletin, vol. 33, no. 2 (June 2012) [abstract]
- See also related article published earlier by same authors.

"Utilization of Outpatient Services in Refugee Settlement Health Facilities: A Comparison by Age, Gender, and Refugee Versus Host National Status," Conflict and Health 5:19 (Sept. 2011) [text]

Tagged Publications. 

New Issues of CIROC News, FMR Suppl., ICRC Rev., Prehosp. Dis. Med.

CIROC Newsletter, no. 1 (Sept. 2010) [full-text]
- From the Centre on Information and Research on Organised Crime. Includes "The Ethnography of Human Trafficking" on pp. 2-5 and "Human Trafficking and Unaccompanied Minor Asylum Seekers in the Netherlands" on pp. 5-6.

Forced Migration Review, Special Supplement (Oct. 2010) [full-text]
- Focus is on "HIV/AIDS, Security and Conflict."

International Review of the Red Cross, no. 878 (2010) [full-text]
- Theme is "Urban Violence." The full-text version is now available on the ICRC web site.

Prehospital & Disaster Medicine, vol. 25, no. 3 (May/June 2010) [full-text]
- Delayed open access journal. This issue includes "Future Humanitarian Crises: Challenges for Practice, Policy, and Public Health."

Tagged Periodicals.

New Issues of AWR, Intl. J. Migr. Health Social Care, J. Confl. Res., NEJM, Torture

AWR Bulletin, vol. 47, no. 4 (2009) [contents]
- Mix of articles.

International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, vol. 5, no. 3 (Nov. 2009) [contents]
- Mix of articles.

Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 54, no. 1 (Feb. 2010) [contents]
- Mix of articles.

New England Journal of Medicine, articles on Haiti [free full-text]
- This is a list of results for a search on Haiti.

Torture Journal, vol. 20, no. 1 (2010) [contents via PubMed]
- See first five articles.

Tagged Periodicals.

New Issues of African J. Conflict Res., African Yrbk. IHL, Am. J. Disaster Med., Europ. J. Dev. Research, Lancet, Nordic J. Intl. Law

African Journal on Conflict Resolution, vol. 9, no. 3 (2009) [full-text]
- Mix of articles.

African Yearbook on International Humanitarian Law (2008) [contents]
- Mix of articles.

American Journal of Disaster Medicine, vol. 4, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 2009) [contents]
- Mix of articles.

European Journal of Development Research, vol. 21, no. 5 (Dec. 2009) [contents]
- Mix of articles, including "The Gendered Economy of the Return Migration of Internally Displaced Women in Sierra Leone" and "Great Expectations and Reality Checks: The Role of Information in Mediating Migrants' Experience of Return."

The Lancet, vol. 375, no. 9711 (23 Jan. 2010) [contents]
- Special issue on violent conflict and health; register for access to free full-text.

Nordic Journal of International Law, vol. 78, no. 4 (Dec. 2009) [contents]
- This issue celebrates the "60th Anniversary of the Geneva Conventions."

Tagged Periodicals.

INEE Global Consultation, Upcoming Events in May and June

The INEE Global Consultation took place 31 March - 4 April 2009. The theme was "Bridging the Gaps: Risk Reduction, Relief and Recovery." A detailed programme is available in PDF or can be viewed by individual session. The proceedings were reported on in the Global Consultation Blog; scroll down to the bottom and read up to get a chronological overview.

Upcoming events in May, June:

AUC Center for Migration and Refugee Studies Short Courses, Cairo, May-June 2009 [site]
- Courses will be held on "International Law on Migrant and Refugee Women and Children" (31 May - 4 June); "Advanced International Refugee Law" (7-11 June); "and Meeting the Psychosocial Needs of Refugees" (14-18 June). Register by 15 April.

16th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Victoria, BC, Canada, 12-15 May 2009 [site]
- "[D]evoted to equipping health professionals to prepare for and respond to disasters and health emergencies around the world." Register by April 24th.

The Great Lakes Pact – Two Years On: Issues of Implementation and Enforcement, London School of Economics and Political Science, 29-30 May 2009 [info.]
- Documents relevant to the conference are available here.

2nd Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS), University of Ottawa, 1-3 June 2009 [info.]
- Theme is "Forced Migration and Shifting Borders." No programme available at present.

13th Management of Humanitarian Emergencies: Focus on Children and Families, Cleveland, Ohio, 15-19 June 2009 [site]
- "[E]xamines the most important problems and priorities in disaster situations as they relate to the most vulnerable and numerous victims of disasters -- children and families." Register by 15 May.

12th International Association for the Study of Forced Migration Conference, University of Nicosia, Cyprus, 28 June – 2 July 2009 [site]
- Theme is "Transforming Boundaries."

UNHCR Annual Consultations with NGOs, Geneva, 29 June - 1 July 2009 [site]
- Registration deadline is 5 June.

Tagged Events & Opportunities.

Publications: Emergency Aid, EU Asylum, Human Rights/Neth., Iraqi Women, Sexual Violence, Women in Detention/U.S.

Detained and Dismissed: Women's Struggles to Obtain Health Care in United States Immigration Detention (Human Rights Watch, March 2009) [text]

Determinants Of International Emergency Aid: Humanitarian Need Only?, Research Working Papers, March 2009 , pp. 1-38(38) [text]

In Her Own Words: Iraqi Women Talk about Their Greatest Concerns and Challenges - A Survey (Oxfam, March 2009) [text]

Report by the Commissioner for Human Rights Mr. Thomas Hammarberg on His Visit to the Netherlands, 21 - 25 September 2008 (Council of Europe, March 2009) [text]

Shattered Lives: Immediate Medical Care Vital for Sexual Violence Victims (MSF, March 2009) [text]

UNHCR Comments on the European Commission’s Proposal for a recast of the Directive laying down minimum standards for the reception of asylum-seekers (UNHCR, March 2009) [text]

Tagged Publications

International Emergency Medicine Current Awareness

In order to promote more timely access to important research, the Emergency Medicine Residents Association (EMRA) recently began producing a quarterly review. This review serves as an update to EMRA's annual survey of research undertaken in the field of international emergency medicine, which was initiated to facilitate access to a scattered literature base.

The three annual literature reviews that have been produced to date have all been published in the journal, Academic Emergency Medicine. References to these can be accessed in my forced migration research guide via the index term "emergency medical care." And this post in my other blog provides a strategy for accessing the actual texts of the literature reviews.

Posted in Publications.