Each year the UK incarcerates thousands of asylum seekers in prison-like immigration detention centres.
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Several Canadian provinces are terminating their immigration detention agreements with the CBSA. While that signals a move in the right direction, the federal government must also take action.
Anthropological fieldwork into ‘outsourced’ asylum measures in Nauru and Guatemala reveal how they actually work - and don’t work - in practice.
UK law says that detention should only be used when deportation is imminent.
The use of hotels as alternative sites for detention is a worrying trend, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 2001 federal election was a watershed moment for Australian national security that has set a policy agenda for almost two decades.
Changes to immigration rules have left migrants without family and friends in the UK trapped in immigration detention – despite being granted bail.
Rights and living conditions vary depending where immigrants are detained.
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Researcher at the Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET), Lund University
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Reader in Migration, Mobility and Development, SOAS, University of London
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