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February 2011 Newsletter
Profiles on Israel and Tunisia. Working paper No. 4 Immigration Detention and Proportionality. Call for papers. New Detention Advocacy Group. New Report from the International Detention Coalition […]
Immigration Detention and Proportionality
Immigration detention is characterized by a tension between the prerogatives of sovereignty and the rights of non-citizens. While states have broad discretion over who is allowed to enter and reside within their borders, their decision to detain and deport is constrained by a number of widely accepted norms and principles. One of these is the […]
December 2010 Newsletter
Profiles on Norway, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, and Belize. Workshop on Detention at the Borders of Europe. Coding State Adherence to Norms […]
Detention at the Borders of Europe: Report on the Joint Global Detention Project– International Detention Coalition Workshop in Geneva, Switzerland, 2‐3 October 2010
On 2-3 October 2010, the Global Detention Project (GDP) held a workshop in Geneva, Switzerland, on migration-related detention that included representatives from organizations in 12 countries in Europe and neighbouring regions, as well as several international migration scholars and advocates. The workshop, which was jointly organized with the International Detention Coalition (IDC), an umbrella group […]
