Global Detention Project Newsletter March 2012
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Discussion Paper: “On the Unintended Consequences of Human Rights Promotion on Immigration Detention“
This GDP discussion paper was prepared for the upcoming public roundtable organized by the Soros Foundation in New York City titled “Holding Patterns: Can Advocacy Efforts to Reform Migration Detention Inadvertently Lead to the Growth of Detention Regimes?” Details about this event are available here.
“Immigration Detention in Canada: A Global Detention Project Special Report”
The Canadian Parliament is currently considering controversial “anti-smuggling” legislation which, if adopted, will “put a lot of emphasis on putting people behind bars before they get due process,” in the words of one member of Parliament. The legislation is part of a larger public debate in Canada regarding its social attitudes and legal responses to immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees. This GDP special report aims to focus attention on one aspect of its immigration policy-detention-which could be significantly impacted by this debate. The report offers a comprehensive review of Canada’s immigration detention regime and attempts to situate its policies and practices in an international context to enable observers, policy makers, and engaged individuals-both in and outside Canada-to better observe how the country stacks up to its peers and the potential ramifications of its political decision-making. View the special report here.
EVENT
On 8 March 2012, Dr. Dan Wilsher, author of Immigration Detention: Law, History, Politics (Cambridge University Press 2012), gave a lecture at the Graduate Institute titled “Detention of Immigrants: Enforcement, Non-compliance, and Punishment.” Video of the event is available here.
