Many liberal democracies betray a noticeable discomfort when it comes to public scrutiny of immigration detention, neglecting to release comprehensive statistics about it, cloaking detention practices in misleading names and phrases, and carefully choosing which activities they define as deprivation of liberty. On the other hand, these same countries have laboured to expand their detention […]
Publications & Events
“Crimmigration” in the European Union through the Lens of Immigration Detention
The phenomenon of “crimmigration”—or the convergence of criminal and immigration laws—appears to have a harmful impact on migrants, ranging from increasing negative attitudes about non-citizens to more restrictive immigration policies. This Global Detention Project working paper argues that immigration detention regulated by European Union (EU) directives represents a peculiar manifestation of crimmigration. In particular, detention provisions […]
Smoke Screens: Is There a Correlation between Migration Euphemisms and the Language of Detention?
Discursive strategies used to describe people moving across borders can have consequences on their well-being, including limiting their access to legal procedures. This Global Detention Project working paper points to an apparent paradox in these strategies: While language used to describe migrants and asylum-seekers is often euphemistic (or dysphemistic), tending to dehumanise them, language used […]
Bulgarian Migration Directorate – Access to Information Request, 12.09.2013
The Bulgarian Migration Directorate’s official responses to an information request submitted by the Global Detention Project and Access Info Europe in 2013 as part of a joint project to map access to migration-related detention data in several dozen countries in Europe and North America. The results of the investigation were reported in the joint publication, […]
Slovenian Ministry of Interior (Directorate of Internal Administrative Affairs, Migration and Naturalisation) – Access to Information Request, 09.09.2013
The Slovenian Ministry of Interior’s (Directorate of Internal Administrative Affairs, Migration and Naturalisation) official response to an information request submitted by the Global Detention Project and Access Info Europe in 2013 as part of a joint project to map access to migration-related detention data in several dozen countries in Europe and North America. The results […]
September 2013 Newsletter
Global Detention Project Newsletter September 2013 NEW GDP WORKING PAPERS Countries across the globe appear to be increasingly relying on detention to control their borders and immigrant populations. On the eve of the UN General Assembly’s second High-Level Dialogue on Migration and Development , the Global Detention Project (GDP) is issuing a new set of […]
Be careful what you wish for
Can the promotion of liberal norms have an unintended – and damaging – impact on how states confront the challenges of irregular immigration? Article for the Forced Migration Review. Read the full article here. […]
Greek Ministry of Citizen Protection – Access to Information Request, 30.08.2013
The Greek Ministry of Citizen Protection’s official response to an information request submitted by the Global Detention Project and Access Info Europe in 2013 as part of a joint project to map access to migration-related detention data in several dozen countries in Europe and North America. The results of the investigation were reported in the […]
Global Trends in the Practice of Immigration Detention
Mariette Grange gave a presentation at the Summer School on Human Rights, Migration & Globalization of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland, Galway, on July 9, 2014. Read the programme here. […]
