OUR LATEST PUBLICATIONS
Immigration Detention in Libya: “A Human Rights Crisis”
Libya is notoriously perilous for refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants, who often suffer a litany of abuses, including at the country’s numerous detention facilities. Conditions at these facilities, many of which are under the control of militias, are deplorable. There are frequent shortages of water and food; over-crowding is endemic; detainees can experience physical mistreatment and torture; forced labour and slavery are rife; and there is a stark absence of oversight and regulation. Nevertheless, Italy and the European Union continue to strike controversial migration control deals with various actors in Libya aimed at reducing flows across the Mediterranean. These arrangements include equipping Libyan farces to “rescue” intercepted migrants and refugees at sea, investing in detention centres, and paying militias to control migration. Read the full report.
Immigration Detention in Finland: Limited Use of “Alternatives,” Restrictive Detention Review, Divisive Political Debate
Finland does not detain as many migrants and asylum seekers as do Sweden and other nearby European countries. However, the country’s authorities rarely grant “alternatives to detention,” instead deeming detention to be the most efficient and cost-effective method for removing non-citizens from the country. District court detention decisions tend to be very brief, and hearings often last less than 10 minutes. Although conditions in the country’s two specialised immigration detention centres are generally adequate, Finland continues to use police and border guard stations for immigration detention purposes. Read the full report.
GDP ON THE RECORD
- “Assessment of Government Progress in Implementing the Report on the Welfare in Detention of Vulnerable Persons: A Follow-Up Report to the Home Office by Stephen Shaw,” S. Shaw, Home Office, 24 July 2018.
- “Migrant Smuggling Data and Research: A Global Review of the Emerging Evidence Base – Volume 2,” A. Triandafyllidou and M.L. McAuliffe (eds.), International Organisation for Migration (IOM), 2018.
- “Containment Practices of Immobility in Greece,” A. Fili, E-International Relations, 27 August 2018.
- “Peripheralised in the Periphery: Migration, Deportation, and Detainment in Ireland and Spain,” E.J. White in Relating Worlds of Racism: Dehumanisation, Belonging, and the Normativity of European Whiteness, P. Essed et al (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
- “Detaining Families: A Study of Asylum Adjudication in Family Detention,” I. Eagly, S. Shafer, and J. Whalley, California Law Review, 2018.
- “Migration and Torture: Building a Map of Knowledge,” P. Pérez-Sales, Torture Journal: Journal on Rehabilitation of Torture Victims and Prevention of Torture, Vol 28 (2), 2018.
- “Special Situations: Places of Immigration Detention,” J. Jan den Otter, T. Wenzel, et al, in An Uncertain Safety: Integrative Health Care for the 21st Century Refugees, W. Wenzel and B. Drožđek (eds.), Springer, 2018.
- “A Comparative Analysis of Migration Control Strategies Along the Western and Eastern Mediterranean Routes: Sovereign Interventions Through Militarization and Deportation,” Ö. Topak and L. Vives, Migration Studies, 2 August 2018.
- “Os Direitos Humanos e a Crise Migratória na fronteira entre Estados Unidos e México[Human Rights and the Migration Crisis on the US-Mexican Border,]“ V.B. Sperandio, Jus.com.br, August 2018.
