Global Detention Project Newsletter
March 2017
NEW FROM THE GDP
Immigration Detention, the Right to Liberty, and Constitutional Law: GDP Working Paper No. 22
By Dan Wilsher
The right to personal liberty is one of the oldest recognized rights in liberal democracies, which raises fundamental constitutional questions about the use of detention as an immigration measure. However, as this GDP Working Paper highlights, in common law countries, lengthy immigration detention on a large scale has become the norm and is largely regarded as constitutional. Read paper.
Immigration detention in Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago, one of the wealthiest countries in the Caribbean, has framed efforts to increase detention and deportation as a matter of national security, citing the views of U.S. President Donald Trump as a model. It opened a dedicated immigration detention centre in 2009. The country’s immigration laws provide criminal penalties for various violations, including six-month prison sentences for re-entry after expulsion. Read the country profile here.
Submission to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR): Czech Republic
Joint submission for the Universal Periodic Review by the Global Detention Project, the Organization for Aid to Refugees (OPU) and Forum for Human Rights (FORUM). Read the submission here.
Submission to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR): Argentina
Read the submission here.
Submission to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR): Guatemala
Read the submission here.
Submission to the UN Committee on Migrant Workers: Egypt
Read the submission here.
Submission to the UN Committee on Migrant Workers: Algeria
Read the submission here.
UPCOMING EVENTS & PUBLICATIONS
Challenging Immigration Detention: Academics, Activists, and Policy-makers
Edited by Michael Flynn and Matthew Flynn (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2017)
Governments increasingly rely upon detention to control the movement of undocumented migrants and asylum seekers. Approaching detention from an interdisciplinary perspective, this new edited volume brings together leading writers and thinkers to provide a greater understanding of why it is such an important social phenomenon and suggest ways to confront it locally and globally. More information available here.
“Immigration Detention in the Age of Migration Control”
The GDP’s Michael Flynn will be a panelist at this one-day workshop hosted by USC Gould School of Law on 7 April 2017. More information about the event is available here.
“Protecting Stateless Persons from Arbitrary Detention”
The GDP’s Mariette Grange will hold a workshop at this this conference put on by the European Network on Statelessness on 4-5 May in Budapest. The workshop is titled “Measuring and gathering data on immigration detention for evidence-based advocacy.” More information about the conference is available here: http://www.statelessness.eu/
“When the exception becomes the rule: European Union Societies on the move”
The GDP’s Izabella Majcher will give a presentation entitled “Trends in Immigration Detention in the European Union” at this conference hosted by the Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law on 4-5 May. More information available here: http://www.iisj.net/en/
GDP ON THE RECORD
“Across the border and into the cold: hieleras and the punishment of asylum-seeking Central American women in the United States” Sara Riva. Citizenship Studies Vol. 21, 2017 – Issue 3. http://www.tandfonline.com/
“Counter-Mapping a Revolutionized Space of Mobility” Glenda Garelli and Martina Tazzioli in Tunisia as a Revolutionized Space of Migration. Palgrave Macmillan US. 2017. https://link.springer.com/
“The Tunisian Migration Space” Glenda Garelli and Martina Tazzioli in Tunisia as a Revolutionized Space of Migration. Palgrave Macmillan US. 2017. https://link.springer.com/
“Mass Migration and Uprisings in Arab Countries: An Analytical Framework” Philippe Fargues. International Development Policy | Revue internationale de politique de développement. February 2017. http://poldev.revues.orgbcrfj.
