Privatising Migration: A Solution for the European Union?
University of Nottingham, 17-18 June 2019
The trend towards outsourcing migration control operations—including to private companies, international organisations, militias, and other non-state actors—has helped states to distance themselves from, and evade, human rights obligations. In light of the documented abuses that have occurred at the hands of private companies, it is vital to assess the human impact of such policies and identify the legal frameworks that hold private companies and contracting states accountable.
On 17-18 June, GDP Executive Director Michael Flynn participated in an expert workshop hosted by the University of Nottingham’s Human Rights Law Centre and the European Policy Centre, examining the policy and legal implications of current forms of privatisation. His presentation, “The Privatisation of Immigration Detention: The View from the Global South,” examined the proliferation of private actors involved in immigration detention systems and the forces driving this expansion.
