Profiles on Romania, Slovenia, Hungary, and Luxembourg. Upcoming event Extraterritoriality: The Juridical, Spatial, and Political Condition of Refugee Camps and Other Extraterritorial Spaces. Oxford Immigration Detention Workshop. Public Interest and Social Justice Law Board grant to undertake internship. Presentation at the University of Texas. […]
Publications & Events
March 2010 Newsletter
Profiles on Turkey, Estonia, and Denmark […]
February 2010 Newsletter
Profiles on Mauritania, Ireland, and Belgium. Presentation “The Politics of Privatised Immigration Detention” […]
Botswana Detention Profile (2009)
Botswana has traditionally been considered a welcoming country for immigrants, attracting skilled workers from neighbouring countries. However, since the early 2000s, there have been growing tensions as the number of immigrants from Zimbabwe has risen precipitously. By 2004, the country was deporting some 2,500 irregular Zimbabweans per month. The government also began implementing harsher legal […]
Hong Kong (China) Immigration Detention Profile (2009)
Immigration and detention policies in Hong Kong have been driven in part by concerns over migration flows from mainland China and neighbouring countries in Southeast Asia, in particular Vietnam. For many years, Hong Kong (officially, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China) called itself the “first port of refuge” for […]
December 2009 Newsletter
Profiles on Malta, Sweden, and Netherlands […]
November 2009 Newsletter
Working paper “Migration and Detention: Mapping the International Legal Terrain”. Profiles on Libya, Ukraine, and Greece. […]
