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Posts by Mike:

  • UK: Plans to Replicate Australia’s Maligned Offshore Detention Regime Ignore a Long History of Failure and SufferingPosted on October 15, 2020 (November 5, 2020) by Michael FlynninNews & Activities
  • COVID-19 Reveals the Inherent Vindictiveness of Migration DetentionPosted on May 28, 2020 (October 8, 2020) by Michael FlynninStaff Publications
  • The Debate over Alternatives to Immigration Detention of ChildrenPosted on December 19, 2019 (October 2, 2020) by Michael FlynninStaff Publications
  • Critiquing Zones of Exception: Actor-Oriented Approaches Explaining the Rise of Immigration DetentionPosted on May 1, 2018 (June 11, 2020) by Michael FlynninSpecial Reports & Working Papers&Staff Publications
  • Uneven Business: Privatisation of Immigration Detention in EuropePosted on February 8, 2018 (January 11, 2019) by Michael FlynninStaff Publications
  • Challenging Immigration Detention: Academics, Activists, and Policy-makersPosted on September 19, 2017 (September 20, 2017) by Michael FlynninStaff Publications
  • Kidnapped, Trafficked, Detained? The Implications of Non-state Actor Involvement in Immigration DetentionPosted on July 26, 2017 (February 26, 2018) by Michael FlynninStaff Publications
  • Putting Immigration Detention in Interdisciplinary PerspectivePosted on May 31, 2017 (September 18, 2017) by Michael FlynninStaff Publications
  • Statement to the Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries Panel on “PMSCs in places of deprivation of liberty and their impact on human rights”Posted on April 27, 2017 (September 26, 2017) by Michael FlynninSubmissions & Recommendations
  • Analyzing Immigration Detention from a Global PerspectivePosted on April 7, 2017 (September 18, 2017) by Michael FlynninNews & Activities

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Oct 2020

Submissions & Recommendations

Submission to the Universal Periodic Review: Singapore

Aug 2020

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in Germany: From Open Arms to Public Backlash

Aug 2020

Submissions & Recommendations

Submission to the Committee on the Rights of the Child: Cyprus

Aug 2020

Data Profiles

Syria Immigration Detention Data Profile (2020)

Jul 2020

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in Algeria: Pandemic Pushbacks

Jun 2020

Submissions & Recommendations

Submission to the UN Committee against Torture: Bulgaria

Jun 2020

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in Hungary: Transit Zone or Twilight Zone?

May 2020

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in Spain: A Rapid Response to Covid-19

Apr 2020

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in Argentina: A Paradigm Shift?

Mar 2020

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in Belgium: Covid-19 Puts the Brakes on an Expanding Detention System

Mar 2020

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in Tunisia: Shrouded in Secrecy

Feb 2020

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in the Netherlands: Prioritising Returns in Europe and the Caribbean

Feb 2020

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in the Republic of Korea: Penalising People in Need of Protection

Feb 2020

Submissions & Recommendations

Submission to the Working Group on Discrimination against Women in Law and Practice: Romania

Jan 2020

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in Austria: Where the Refugee “Crisis” Never Ends

Nov 2019

Submissions & Recommendations

Joint Submission to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Greece

Oct 2019

Country Reports

Italy: Complicit in Grave Human Rights Abuse?

Oct 2019

Submissions & Recommendations

Submission to the Universal Periodic Review: Libya

Aug 2019

Country Reports

Ireland: Can You Detain “Better” Without Detaining More?

Jun 2019

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in Portugal: Resettling Refugees, Detaining Asylum Seekers

Jun 2019

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in Malta: “Betraying” European Values?

May 2019

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in Latvia: Giving “Accommodation” a Whole New Meaning

May 2019

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in Lithuania: Detention and Denial Amidst Extreme Population Decline

Apr 2019

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in Croatia: Shrinking Space for Independent Monitoring

Mar 2019

News & Activities

Global Working Group of National Societies Working in Immigration Detention

Mar 2019

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in Slovenia: Where They Call Detention a “Limitation of Movement”

Feb 2019

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in Slovakia: Punitive Conditions Paid for by the Detainees

Dec 2018

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in the Czech Republic: “We Will Not Accept Even One More Refugee”

Oct 2018

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in France: Longer, More Widespread, and Harder to Contest

Oct 2018

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in Poland: Systematic Family Detention and Lack of Individualised Assessment

Sep 2018

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in Egypt: Military Tribunals, Human Rights Abuses, Abysmal Conditions, and EU Partner

Aug 2018

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in Finland: Limited Use of “Alternatives,” Restrictive Detention Review, Divisive Political Debate

May 2018

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in Denmark: Where Officials Celebrate the Deprivation of Liberty of “Rejected Asylum Seekers”

Mar 2017

Submissions & Recommendations

Submission to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR): Guatemala

Oct 2016

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in the United Kingdom

Aug 2016

Submissions & Recommendations

Submission to the UN Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW): Honduras

Aug 2016

Submissions & Recommendations

Submission to the UN Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW): Mexico

Jun 2016

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in Angola

May 2016

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in the United States

Feb 2016

Submissions & Recommendations

Submission to the Human Rights Committee: Costa Rica

Jan 2016

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in Belize

Aug 2015

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in Nicaragua

Jul 2015

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in Panama

Dec 2020

Staff Publications

Using Detention to Talk About the Elephant in the Room

Dec 2020

Newsletters

Human Rights Day 2020: Respecting the Human Rights of All People, Regardless of Their Immigration Status

Dec 2020

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in Colombia: At the Crossroads of the Americas

Dec 2020

Country Reports

Immigration Detention in Paraguay: The Non-Detention Norm Versus Mandatory COVID Quarantine

Dec 2020

Submissions & Recommendations

Submission to the UN Committee on Migrant Workers: Draft General Comment No.5 on Migrants’ Right to Liberty and Freedom from Arbitrary Detention

Dec 2020

Data Profiles

Uruguay Immigration Detention Data Profile (2020)

Nov 2020

Data Profiles

Moldova Immigration Detention Data Profile (2020)

Nov 2020

Data Profiles

Malaysia Immigration Detention Data Profile (2020)

Nov 2020

Data Profiles

Greece Immigration Detention Data Profile (2020)

Nov 2020

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Hungary Immigration Detention Data Profile (2020)

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