Migrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking children in Morocco are extremely vulnerable to detention and other harmful immigration enforcement measures despite years of efforts by civil society organisations and human rights monitoring bodies to advocate for reforms. […]
Mexico’s Immigration Policies and Human Rights – Global Detention Project Working Paper No. 26
In this critical examination of Mexico’s history of immigration control, authors Flynn and Ortiz-Gonzalez demonstrate the country’s use of euphemistic language to reframe coercive practices as humanitarian ones, concealing the persistence of punitive migration enforcement and masking its on-going role as a surrogate enforcer of U.S migration control.
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Kazakhstan’s Treatment of Migrant Workers Scrutinised by the UN Human Rights Committee
Central Asia’s most prosperous state, Kazakhstan attracts a large number of migrant workers from surrounding countries, mainly Uzbekistan, Russia, and Tajikistan. While authorities note the need for skilled migrants to join the country’s workforce as part of the country’s Migration Policy Concept 2023-2027, Central Asian migrants–commonly employed as low-wage labourers–have often been the focus of widespread migrant raids for arrest, detention, and deportation. In recent submissions to the UN Human Rights Committee, the GDP and partner ILI brought critical attention to the country’s treatment of foreigners, prompting the committee to issue important recommendations. […]
Deportations to Eswatini Reflect Unprecedented Expansion of U.S Detention Regime
The Trump administration’s recent deportation of five migrants to the southern African country of Eswatini is the latest in the country’s unprecedented expansion of its immigration enforcement system. This has included growing numbers of migrant raids and arrests, massive injections of funding for Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE), record numbers of detentions, and a proliferating range of overseas targets for “third-country deportations”–including, most recently, the tiny island nation of Palau. […]
Oman: Submission to the Universal Periodic Review
Despite the introduction of significant new legislation (including the 2023 Labour Law) since Oman’s third periodic review by the UPR Working Group, concerning protection gaps still remain–leaving vulnerable groups, particularly migrant domestic workers, at continued risk of detention and deportation.
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Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Since late June, Iran has expelled more than half a million Afghan refugees–coinciding with the country’s brief war with Israel. “We urge the Special Rapporteur not to overlook the plight of the millions of undocumented Afghan refugees in the country, whose plight often gets overlooked amidst the surge of conflicts, tragedies, and humanitarian crises afflicting the greater Middle East today.” […]
Algeria: Detention and Deportation in an “Informal Corridor of Expulsion”
In recent years, Algeria has ramped up its detention and deportation operations in response to mounting pressure from Europe. Working increasingly with both neighbouring and European countries, Algerian authorities have conducted targeted raids, used an extensive network of formal and informal detention sites, and carried out (often violent) crossborder pushbacks to Niger and elsewhere. […]
From Pledges to Practice: Scaling Up Responses on Alternatives to Detention, Protection at Sea and Trafficking
On 7 July, the GDP’s Refugee Advocacy Coordinator spoke at a UNHCR-led event on the harmful impacts of immigration detention, as well as the emergence and on-going challenge of ‘alternatives to detention’ (ATDs) and how we might reframe ATDs from a harm-reduction point of view. […]
India Renews Efforts to Remove “Illegal Foreigners” in the Wake of Pahalgam Terrorist Attack
Since the Pahalgam terrorist attacks in Kashmir in April, anti-Islamic public and official attitudes across India have led to important ethnic groups in the country–including Rohingya and Bengali-speaking Muslims–being targeted for racial violence and increasing detention and deportation operations. […]
Djibouti: Use of US Military Base for Immigration Detention Purposes Raises Concerns
In May, eight men were flown from the United States to a U.S military facility in Djibouti, where they have since been detained in a converted shipping container. Here, detainees face extreme heat, lack of necessary medications, combat-esque movement restrictions, and poor quality air. The use of a military base for immigration detention related purposes, meanwhile, appears to be part of a wider U.S trend, raising serious concerns for detainees’ fundamental rights. […]
