Special Reports & Working Papers

Thematic reports and scholarly working papers produced wholly or in part by the Global Detention Project (GDP) and written by GDP staff members, associated researchers, or partner organisations.

Challenges to Providing Mental Health Care in Immigration Detention: Global Detention Project Working Paper No. 19

By Stephen Brooker, Steve Albert, Peter Young and Zachary Steel on 14 December 2016

The global expansion of immigration detention creates an imperative for the mental health community to develop specialized models of care. The authors employ lessons learned from their experiences in Australia to provide a framework for understanding the corrosive nature of immigration detention and suggest clinical approaches that may be adapted to assist detainees in developing resilience to such settings.
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Australia Mental Health Care

Briefing on Multi-national Companies that Provide Immigration Detention Services

By Global Detention Project on 30 November 2016

The UN Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries plans to include an assessment of human rights challenges posed by the operations of private security companies in detention centres and prisons in its 2017 report to the UN General Assembly. To assist in the Working Group’s preparatory work, the GDP provided a briefing on various […]

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Human Rights Privatisation UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries

Detention, Deportation, and Waiting: Toward a Theory of Migrant Detainability: GDP Working Paper No. 18

By Nicholas De Genova on 29 November 2016

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. […]

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Academic Research Critical Theory Deportation

Is Infiltrating Migrant Prisons the Most Effective Way to Challenge Detention Regimes? The Case of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance: GDP Working Paper No. 17

By Claudia Muñoz and Michael P. Young on 21 November 2016

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. […]

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Activism National Immigrant Youth Alliance United States

Capitalism and Immigration Control: What Political Economy Reveals about the Growth of Detention Systems: GDP Working Paper #16

By Matthew Flynn on 14 October 2016

Assessments of the political economy of detention point to a key challenge that is common to countries across the globe: how economic insecurities of host population’s translate into xenophobia and ethno-nationalist demands for more deportations, detentions, and walls. […]

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Australia Austria Belgium Canada Cost of Detention Finland France Germany Greece Italy Kuwait Netherlands Norway Political Economy Portugal Saudi Arabia South Korea Spain Sweden Taiwan United States

Detention of Migrant Children in Switzerland: A Status Report

By Terre des hommes on 22 June 2016

How many children are placed in immigration detention in Switzerland? Where are they detained? What are the conditions of their detention? Is this information even available? In this Special Report, the child rights NGO Terre des hommes argues that there are gaps in Switzerland treatment of children in immigration detention. To complete the report, Terre des hommes commissioned the the Global Detention Project to survey children detention practices in Swiss cantons. […]

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Children in Detention Switzerland

GDP Annual Report 2014-2015

By Global Detention Project on 31 May 2016

In December 2015, the Global Detention Project completed its first fiscal year as an independent association after operating for nearly eight years at the Graduate Institute. This Annual Report details the origins and evolution of the GDP and its efforts to confront the growing use of immigration detention.

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GDP Annual Report