Challenging immigration detention : academics, activists and policy-makers
Title:
Challenging immigration detention : academics, activists and policy-makers
Author:
Flynn, Michael J. (Founder of Global Detention Project), editor.
ISBN:
9781785368059
Physical Description:
xvi, 324 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
The immigration detention puzzle in interdisciplinary perspective / Waging accountability : why investigative journalism is both necessary and insufficient to transforming immigration detention / Women and children first : an inside look at the challenges to reforming family detention in the United States / Immigration detention and penal power : a criminological perspective / Whither presumption of liberty? : constitutional law and immigration detention / Inspecting immigration detention : Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons / Turning detention centers inside out : the infiltrations of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance in sociological perspective / Global advocacy : civil society engagement of government on alternatives to immigration detention / Geographical perspectives on detention : spatial control and its contestation / The economy of detainability : theorizing migrant detention / Capitalism and immigration control : what political economy reveals about the global spread of detention / Mental health care in an invalidating environment : the case of immigration control in Australia / Detention and transnational law in the European Union : constitutional protection between complementarity and inconsistency / Back to basics? : the limited use of immigration detention in South America : an interpretation based on international human rights treaties and principles / Immigration detention under international human rights law : the legal framework and the litmus test of human rights treaty bodies monitoring / The many sides to challenging immigration detention
Abstract:
Governments increasingly rely upon detention to control the movement of undocumented migrants and asylum seekers. The deprivation of liberty of non-citizens due to their undocumented or irregular status is often fraught with gross injustices. This book stresses the need for global policy-makers to address these practices in order to ensure compliance with fundamental human rights and prevent detention abuses. Approaching detention from an interdisciplinary perspective, this volume brings together leading writers and thinkers to provide a greater understanding of why it is such an important social phenomenon and suggest ways to confront it locally and globally. Challenging Immigration Detention thematically examines a broad range of situations across the globe, with contributors providing overviews of key issues, case studies and experiences in their fields, while highlighting potential strategies for curbing detention abuses. Demonstrating the value of varied analytical frameworks and investigative angles, the contributors provide urgently needed insight into a growing human rights issue. With cross-disciplinary investigation into an issue with immediate global importance, Challenging Immigration Detention is vital for undergraduates, postgraduates, activists, lawyers and policy-makers interested in international human rights. National and international humanitarian organizations and advocacy groups working in migrant and asylum rights will find this a compelling and diverse overview of migrant detention.
Local Note:
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