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Immigration Detention in Taiwan: Detention “Shelters,” International Isolation, Growing Migration Pressures

By Global Detention Project on 16 December 2024

December 2024: Immigration detention is an important tool of immigration control in Taiwan, where detainee numbers have steadily risen in recent years. Although conditions in Taiwan’s detention centres have frequently been criticised, they have received little international scrutiny because of China’s opposition to Taiwan’s UN membership. Taiwan also lacks an asylum system, though the need […]

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