Donde Esta La Frontera?

IN THE EARLY MORNING OF DECEMBER 3, 2001, Kanu Okany Patel, a 35- year-old undocumented migrant from Gujarat, India, furtively made his way to the bathroom of a government-run detention center in Guatemala City, tied one end of a sturdy cord he’d secretly stripped from a window curtain around his neck, the other around a […]

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Mexico Migrant Train - Sebastiao Salgado - Flynn/Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists August 2002

Donations to the Global Detention Project

Donations to the Global Detention Project The Global Detention Project (GDP) is a tax-exempt association under Swiss Law. Donations to the GDP support efforts to increase transparency of the treatment of people who are detained for immigration-related reasons across the globe. The guiding philosophy of the GDP is that information and data-driven analysis of detention […]

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Academic Advisory Council

Academic Advisory Council Mary Bosworth (Oxford University) François Crépeau (McGill University) Jeff Crisp (Refugees International) Niels Frenzen (University of Southern California) Elspeth Guild (Radboud University) Jussi Hanhimäki (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies) Donald Kerwin (Center for Migration Studies) Daniel Wilsher (City University London) […]

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Regional Norms and Standards: Europe

Migration-Related Detention and International Law Regional Norms and Standards: Europe A number of instruments, documents, and decisions adopted in the context of the different European organizations and institutions can be relevant to the situation of non-citizens in detention. Of particular importance are those adopted within the framework of the Council of Europe, which is the […]

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