Global Detention Project Newsletter
November 2016
NEW DETENTION PROFILES
Netherlands
Although detention numbers have fallen steeply in the Netherlands, they have surged in the Kingdom’s Caribbean islands as Venezuelans flee their country’s failing economy.
Spain
While “pushbacks” at Spain’s borders in Africa are on the rise, the country’s immigration detention numbers are plummeting and a growing movement of activists and local officials are demanding an end to this practice.
NEW GDP WORKING PAPERS
Detention, Deportation, and Waiting: Toward a Theory of Migrant Detainability
By Nicholas De Genova
The global expansion of deportation regimes has spurred an analogous expansion of migrant detention. This GDP Working Paper situates the analysis of immigration detention in the framework of contemporary critical theory, interrogating the economy of different conditionalities that undergird the distinct categories of migrants who are subjected to detention power.
Immigration Detention and Civil Disobedience
By Claudia Muñoz and Michael P. Young
The authors highlight efforts by undocumented youth in the United States to “infiltrate” immigration detention centres to argue that civil disobedience, a strategy often ignored by allies and advocates of immigrants, can be an effective tool to counter growing detention and deportation systems.
RECENT ACTIVITIES
GDP Presentation at the 25th Anniversary of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, 28 November 2016
GDP Briefing to the UN Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries on Key Multinational Companies Involved in Immigration Detention, 29 November 2016
The GDP participated in an NGO Panel in Geneva with Manfred Nowak, newly appointed Independent Expert for the Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty, Geneva, 22 November 2016. Information about the study is available here and here.
The GDP participated in OHCHR briefing “Integrating human rights into the follow-up to the UN Summit for Refugees and Migrant,” Geneva, 24 November 2014.
GDP ON THE RECORD
Global Study on Children Deprived of Their Liberty: Scope and Methodology, 10 November 2016
Opening Statement by Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein or the Commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, United Nations, 28 November 2016
“Zurück in den Krieg,” Tageszeitung, 27 November 2016
10th European Forum on the rights of the child: The protection of children in migration: Background paper, 24 November 2016
