About: Governments increasingly rely upon detention to control the movement of undocumented migrants and asylum seekers. The deprivation of liberty of non- citizens due to their undocumented or irregular status is often fraught with gross injustices. This book, edited by Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project) and Matthew Flynn (Georgia Southern University), stresses the need for global policy-makers to address these practices in order to ensure compliance with fundamental human rights and prevent detention abuses. Approaching detention from an interdisciplinary perspective, this volume brings together leading writers and thinkers to provide a greater understanding of why it is such an important social phenomenon and suggest ways to confront it locally and globally. More information about the book is available from Edward Elgar Publishing, at http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/challenging-immigration-detention.
“This is an excellent book on the highly topical subject of immigration detention. The contributors are experts in the field and their work together creates impressive new knowledge.”
– Elspeth Guild, Queen Mary University of London, UK
“The resort to immigration detention of asylum seekers and migrants is a global phenomenon that breaches fundamental human rights. In Challenging Immigration Detention the authors examine the impact on families and their children held in detention in the United States, Australia, the European Union and South America. This collation of research is an invaluable tool in responding to the growing movement of peoples across national borders in search of safety and a better life.”
– Gillian Triggs, Australian Human Rights Commission, Australia
CONTENTS
Introduction – The Immigration Detention Puzzle in Interdisciplinary Perspective
Michael J. Flynn and Matthew B. Flynn
1. Waging Accountability: Why Investigative Journalism Is Both Necessary and Insufficient to Transforming Detention
Nina Bernstein
2. Women and Children First: An Inside Look at the Challenges to Reforming Family Detention in the United States
Dora Schriro
3. Immigration Detention and Penal Power: A Criminological Perspective
Mary Bosworth
4. Whither Presumption of Liberty? Constitutional Law and Immigration Detention
Daniel Wilsher
5. Inspecting Immigration Detention: Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Prisons
Hindpal Singh Bhui
6. Turning Detention Centers Inside Out: The “Infiltrations” of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance in Sociological Perspective
Claudia Muñoz and Michael P. Young
7. Global Advocacy: Civil Society Engagement of Government on Alternatives to Immigration Detention
Grant Mitchell
8. Geographical Perspectives on Detention: Spatial Control and Its Contestation
Deirdre Conlon, Nancy Hiemstra and Alison Mountz
9. The Economy of Detainability: Theorizing Immigration Detention
Nicholas de Genova
10. Capitalism and Immigration Control: What Political Economy Reveals about the Global Spread of Detention
Matthew B. Flynn
11. Mental Health Care in an Invalidating Environment: The Case of Immigration Detention in Australia
Stephen Brooker, Steve Albert, Peter Young and Zachary Steel
12. Detention and Transnational Law in the European Union: Constitutional Protection between Complementarity and Inconsistency
Galina Cornelisse
13. Back to Basics? The Limited Use of Immigration Detention in South America. An interpretation based on International Human Rights Treaties and Principles
Pablo Ceriani
14. Immigration detention under international human rights law: The legal framework and the litmus test of human rights treaty bodies monitoring
Mariette Grange and Izabella Majcher
15. The Many Sides to Challenging Immigration Detention
Michael J. Flynn
