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International solidarity to end immigration detention [PDF]

open access: yesThe Lancet, 2017
Cécile Rousseau   +3 more
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Immigration detention: looking at the alternatives

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2013
Endangering the health and well-being of people by detaining them is unnecessary; governments can instead use community-based alternatives that are more dignified for migrants and more cost-effective for states.
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Immigration Detention in Australia

2022
This chapter provides the backdrop for this book by locating Australia’s immigration detention system in its political and historical context. It describes the vilification and politicization of people seeking asylum in Australia, the evolution of Australia’s controversial policy of indefinite mandatory detention, and the emergence of Australia’s ...
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Suicide and self‐harm in immigration detention

Medical Journal of Australia, 2011
Time to examine a system harming the health of both detainees and detention centre staff.
Michael Dudley   +2 more
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Resisting Immigration Detention

European Journal of Migration and Law, 2016
The aim of this article is to provide a normative analysis of the ways in which immigrants resist immigration detention. After having outlined (in Section 2) some general features that make immigration detention a rather abnormal condition for human beings to be kept in, I distinguish three main forms of resistance to it: institutionalized, non ...
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Regarding Immigrant Detention

Architectural Theory Review, 2020
East of San Diego, on former Kumeyaay land, the US side of the border with Mexico is a vast industrial zone of warehouses and shipping container yards that roaring trucks crisscross incessantly.
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Inside Immigration Detention

Journal of Borderlands Studies, 2017
Mary Bosworth has written a valuable ethnography of life inside British immigration detention centers.
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Immigration Detention and Punishment

2017
The use of detention for immigration purposes is a carceral trend that continues to increase across the world and is a phenomenon no longer limited to so-called western countries or the global north. Linked to the criminalization of mass migration under conditions of globalization, immigration detention can be understood as both a policy and a practice
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Why Immigration Detention is Unique

Population, Space and Place, 2012
ABSTRACTIn this editorial introduction, we provide a context for our special issue by outlining the major approaches and issues related to immigration detention in liberal, democratic states. We are concerned that there is no commonly accepted definition of detention, and so we endeavour to provide one here.
Stephanie J. Silverman, Evelyne Massa
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Introduction: Studying Immigration Detention

2022
This chapter begins with the assertion that refugee and asylum seeker deterrence policies, including immigration detention, are built on cruelty. In operation, deterrence involves the infliction of profound (if often concealed) harm so that people in need of protection will seek safety elsewhere.
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