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Immigration detention and health
Medical Journal of Australia, 2010 On health grounds, immigration detention should be used in very limited ways Like all rich nations, Australia has experienced an increase in people crossing its national borders without the documents authorising them to do so. Since 1992, Australia has had a policy of mandatory detention for these people.
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Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Undocumented immigration and its relation to public safety are subjects of intense political debate in the United States. Empirical evidence remains limited, and prior research has not examined how the relationship between undocumented immigration and victimization risk may vary by individuals’ citizenship status and local immigration policy ...
Min Xie, Eric P. Baumer
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines transformations in contemporary global migration governance, with a particular focus on the effectiveness, robustness and democratic credentials of the UN Global Compacts on Migration and on Refugees. We examine valuable innovations, such as the workings of regularly organised platforms, which adopt a ‘whole of society ...
Felix Peerboom +2 more
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Significant Far‐Right Challenges to Australian Society? The XYZ and AustraliaOne
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars who analyse the Australian far‐right from a criminological or security studies perspective propose that activists and groups pose ‘political’ challenges to Australian society. This paper examines the far‐right news website The XYZ and the AustraliaOne political party, and argues that claims that the far‐right may normalise ...
Timothy Lynch
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Endogenous and Exogenous Drivers of Refugee Policy of the Transit State: The Case of Indonesia
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Most studies on transit states emphasise exogenous influences on domestic refugee policymaking, with little consideration of endogenous factors to the state itself. Exploring literature from migration studies, refugee studies and international law studies, we identify and classify nearly identical endogenous and exogenous drivers of refugee ...
Anita Herlina +2 more
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In the Wake of Irregular Arrivals: Changes to the Canadian Immigration Detention System
Refuge, 2014 This article seeks to address the policies, practices, and conditions of immigration detention in Canada. The article surveys detention worldwide, its promulgation in Canada, and changes ushered in via 2012 policy innovations.
Stephanie J. Silverman
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(Non)belonging and (un)freedom
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract This article centers on the concept of “belonging” to argue that belonging and freedom are fundamentally related, and that this relationship cannot be easily captured in formal terms alone. I contend that experiences of incomplete belonging among citizens deserve attention from political science because, in addition to their more obvious ...
Yuna Blajer de la Garza
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Understanding Family Dynamics in Mixed‐Status Families: A Qualitative Interpretive Meta‐Synthesis
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the United States, mixed‐status families, where at least one member lacks legal immigration status, face persistent challenges related to deportation, which disrupt family stability, influence parental practices and impact children's identity formation.
Maryam Rafieifar +2 more
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Language Access for Asylum Seekers in Borderland Detention Centers in Texas
Revista de Llengua i Dret - Journal of Language and Law, 2017 Extreme gang violence in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras has prompted thousands of mothers and children to seek refuge in the United States. In response to the 2014 migrant crisis, the United States’ use of family detention centers represents one of
Melissa Wallace, Carlos Iván Hernández
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article offers a critical conceptual review of age assessments in England and examines their implications for unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASC). Drawing on Foucault's theories of biopower and governmentality, age assessments are conceptualied as technologies of control that set the parameters for who is deemed ‘deserving’ of ...
Ama‐Rose Greaves
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