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Immigration Detention Inc.

Nancy Hiemstra, Deirdre Conlon
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Privatisation and accountability in Australian immigration detention: A case of state-corporate symbiosis

Punishment & Society, 2022
Across the global north, immigration detention has become an increasingly common punishment for ‘illegal’ movement between borders. The punitive nature of Australia's border protection laws is enhanced by a privatised and offshored model of operation ...
Mark Yin
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Trauma exposure and mental health outcomes among Central American and Mexican children held in immigration detention at the United States-Mexico border.

Developmental Psychobiology, 2021
We explored the associations between early-life adversity and migration-related stress on the mental health of Central American and Mexican migrating children held in United States immigration detention facilities.
A. Sidamon-Eristoff, Emily M. Cohodes, D. Gee, C. Peña   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Malleable detention: The restructuring of carceral space within U.S. immigration detention

Punishment & Society, 2022
The expansion of immigration detention in the United States has been attributed to policy, privatization, and anti-immigrant racialization. This research extends understandings of immigration detention's growth by focusing on how Immigration and Customs ...
Luis A. Romero
semanticscholar   +1 more source

‘Unpleasant’ but ‘helpful’: Immigration detention and urban entanglements in New Jersey, USA

Urban studies, 2022
As a reflection of changing geographies of US migration control, when Essex County, New Jersey’s local government adopted a new immigration detention contract with the federal government, an elected official noted: ‘This is a very unpleasant way of ...
D. Conlon, N. Hiemstra
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Do mobile phone bans show that immigration detention is becoming more like prison?

Griffith Law Review, 2022
The mobile phone enables people to be heard through walls of confinement. During the suspension of visits to immigration detention in the COVID-19 pandemic, mobile phones were a lifeline to family and friends. There is also a long history of people using
Louise Boon-Kuo
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Privatised Immigration Detention

2022
Abstract How we organise ideas and develop narratives or ‘frames’ can shape public opinion and the course of social movements, structure policy debates, and define research agendas. This chapter has three goals. First, the current state of knowledge regarding the origin and nature of privatised immigration detention in the United States ...
Emily Ryo, Ian Peacock
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At the Borders of the Body Politic: Fetal Citizens, Pregnant Migrants, and Reproductive Injustices in Immigration Detention

American Political Science Review, 2021
To analyze intersecting power relations in reproductive and immigration politics, I examine Garza v. Hargan (an appellate case regarding unaccompanied immigrant minors’ abortion rights) alongside systemic injustices in immigration detention (e.g ...
Brittany R. Leach
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How immigration detention harms children: A conceptual framework to inform policy and practice.

Psychological Trauma
OBJECTIVE This paper identifies the multiple adversities and trauma experienced by children who are detained after seeking asylum. A conceptual framework identifies the specific impact of immigration detention on the psychosocial development and mental ...
Sarah Mares, A. Ziersch
semanticscholar   +1 more source