Barbados

Detains migrants or asylum seekers?

Yes

Has laws regulating migration-related detention?

Yes

Refugees

1

2014

Asylum Applications

5

2019

International Migrants

34,869

2020

Population

300,000

2023

Overview

Types of facilities used for migration-related detention
Administrative Ad Hoc Criminal Unknown

17 February 2021 – Barbados

The small Caribbean island of Barbados, part of the British Commonwealth, has recently experienced a sharp spike in the number of COVID-19 cases. As of 14 February 2021, Barbados had 2,061 positive cases of COVID-19. Nearly 80 percent of these cases have been reported since the start of 2021; Barbados had reported only 383 positive […]

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DETENTION STATISTICS

Total Migration Detainees: Flow + Stock (year)
Not Available
2019

DETAINEE DATA

Total Number of Children Placed in Immigration Detention (Year)
0
2017

DETENTION CAPACITY

ALTERNATIVES TO DETENTION

ADDITIONAL ENFORCEMENT DATA

PRISON DATA

Criminal Prison Population (Year)
924
2015
1,507
2013
Percentage of Foreign Prisoners (Year)
14.2
2014
Prison Population Rate (per 100,000 of National Population)
322
2015
529
2013

POPULATION DATA

Population (Year)
300,000
2023
300,000
2020
284,000
2015
International Migrants (Year)
34,869
2020
34,807
2019
34,500
2015
International Migrants as Percentage of Population (Year)
12.13
2020
12.1
2015
Refugees (Year)
0
2016
1
2014
Asylum Applications (Year)
5
2019
0
2016
Stateless Persons (Year)
0
2016
0
2015

SOCIO-ECONOMIC DATA & POLLS

Gross Domestic Product per Capita (in USD)
15,336
2014
Remittances to the Country
86
2014
Unemployment Rate
2014
Human Development Index Ranking (UNDP)
57 (Very high)
2015

MIGRATION-RELATED DETENTION

Does the Country Detain People for Migration, Asylum, or Citizenship Reasons?
Yes
2022
Does the Country Have Specific Laws that Provide for Migration-Related Detention?
Yes
2023

GOVERNANCE SYSTEM

Legal Tradition(s)
Common law
2017

LEGAL & REGULATORY FRAMEWORK

Detention-Related Legislation
Immigration Act 1976 (1976) 1979
1976

GROUNDS FOR MIGRATION-RELATED DETENTION

Immigration-Status-Related Grounds
Detention for unauthorised entry or stay
2023
Detention to effect removal
2023

LENGTH OF MIGRATION-RELATED DETENTION

MIGRATION-RELATED DETENTION INSTITUTIONS

PROCEDURAL STANDARDS & SAFEGUARDS

DETENTION MONITORS

> National human rights monitoring bodies

> National Preventive Mechanisms (Optional Protocol to UN Convetion against Torture)

> Non-governmental organisations (NGOs)

> Governmental monitoring bodies

> International detention monitoring

TRANSPARENCY

READMISSION/RETURN/EXTRADITION AGREEMENTS

COVID-19

HEALTH CARE

COVID-19 DATA

INTERNATIONAL TREATIES

International Treaties Ratified
Ratification Year
Observation Date
CTOCSP, Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
2014
2014
CTOCTP, Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children
2014
2014
CRPD, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
2013
2013
VCCR, Vienna Convention on Consular Relations
1992
1992
CRC, Convention on the Rights of the Child
1990
1990
CEDAW, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
1980
1980
ICESCR, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
1973
1973
ICCPR, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
1973
1973
CRSSP, Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons
1972
1972
ICERD, International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
1972
1972
Ratio of relevant international treaties ratified
Ratio: 10/19
Treaty Reservations
Reservation Year
Observation Date
ICCPR Article 14 1973
1973
1973
Individual Complaints Procedures
Acceptance Year
ICCPR, First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 1973
1973
Ratio of Complaints Procedures Accepted
Observation Date
1/6
1/6

NON-TREATY-BASED INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISMS

Relevant Recommendations from the UN Universal Periodic Review
Observation Date
No 2009
2017
No 2013

REGIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISMS

Regional Legal Instruments
Year of Ratification (Treaty) / Transposed (Directive) / Adoption (Regulation)
Observation Date
ACHR, American Convention on Human Rights 1981
1981
CBDP, Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women (Convention of Belem do Para) 1995
1995
Regional Treaty Reservations
Reservation Year
Observation Date
ACHR Article 4 1981
1981
1981
ACHPR Article 8 1981
1981
1981

DETENTION COSTS

OUTSOURCING

FOREIGN SOURCES OF FUNDING FOR DETENTION OPERATIONS