Ecuador Detention Data (2020) The latest detention-related data from Ecuador, including immigration and detention-related statistics, domestic laws and policies, international law, and institutional indicators. View the Ecuador Detention Data Profile Related Reading: Ecuador: Country Page Working Paper: Immigration Detention Through the Lens of International Human Rights: Lessons from South America Report: Immigration Detention in Ecuador […]
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Ecuador: Covid-19 and Detention
While the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases has exploded in Brazil, Ecuador has experienced the region’s highest number of deaths per capita and the country has introduced strict containment measures – including curfews between 2pm and 5am, and heavy fines for quarantine violations. Having closed its land borders, the government launched a military operation in […]
Immigration Detention through the Lens of International Human Rights: Lessons from South America
Why hasn’t South America witnessed the same growth in immigration detention regimes that has occurred in the rest of the world? This Global Detention Project Working Paper discusses developments across the region through the lens of international human rights standards. […]
Immigration Detention in Ecuador
Ecuador has been widely lauded for adopting the principle of “universal citizenship” in its 2008 Constitution. However, in recent years, the country seems to have backtracked with respect to its reception of migrants and asylum seekers. Although it is one of the most important countries of refuge in Latin America, hosting tens of thousands of […]
What’s the Deal at Manta?
The United States said it would restrict its activities at Manta to anti-drug efforts—so why is it messing with migrants and more? […]
The Elastic Frontier
Concurrent with high-profile border control efforts, the United States has been busy quietly formulating and putting in place a strategy aimed at pushing migrant interdiction, detention, and deterrence into neighboring countries. These beyond-the-border efforts have led some observers to describe what they see as the southward migration of the U.S.-Mexico border, or to call the […]
