Dear FML readers,
The Global Detention Project has recently published three new working papers that may be of interest:
The Hidden Costs of Human Rights: The Case of Immigration Detention
By Michael Flynn
http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/publications/project-publications/hidden-costs.html
Many liberal democracies betray a noticeable discomfort when it comes to public scrutiny of immigration detention, neglecting to release comprehensive statistics about it, cloaking detention practices in misleading names and phrases, and carefully choosing which activities they define as deprivation of liberty. On the other hand, these same countries have laboured to expand their detention activities and to encourage their neighbours to do the same. What explains this simultaneous reticence towards and embrace of immigration detention? This Global Detention Project working paper argues that a largely unrecognized variable influencing the evolution of immigration detention has been the promotion of some key human rights norms, which has helped spur states to adopt new institutions dedicated to this practice while at the same time prompting them to shift the burden of global migration to countries on the periphery of the international system.
"Crimmigration" in the European Union through the Lens of Immigration Detention
By Izabella Majcher
http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/publications/project-publications/crimmigration.html
The phenomenon of "crimmigration"--or the convergence of criminal and immigration laws--appears to have a harmful impact on migrants, ranging from increasing negative attitudes about non-citizens to more restrictive immigration policies. This Global Detention Project working paper argues that immigration detention regulated by European Union (EU) directives represents a peculiar manifestation of crimmigration. In particular, detention provisions laid down in the Returns Directive and the recently revised Reception Conditions Directive selectively incorporate criminal justice objectives while rejecting protective features that are provided in criminal processes. Thus, while immigration detention sanctioned by EU directives may pursue objectives similar to those of criminal justice--retribution, deterrence, or incapacitation--detainees are not entitled to due process guarantees afforded to their criminal counterparts. This paper argues that in cases where formally administrative immigration detention is punitive in practice, detainees should be granted broader procedural protections, including presumption in favour of non-custodial alternatives to detention, automatic review of detention, personal hearings, and legal and linguistic assistance. Read paper: http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/publications/project-publications/crimmigration.html
Smoke Screens: Is There a Correlation between Migration Euphemisms and the Language of Detention?
By Mariette Grange
http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/publications/project-publications/smoke-screens.html
Discursive strategies used to describe people moving across borders can have consequences on their well-being, including limiting their access to legal procedures. This Global Detention Project working paper points to an apparent paradox in these strategies: While language used to describe migrants and asylum-seekers is often euphemistic (or dysphemistic), tending to dehumanise them, language used to characterize their treatment in custody appears aimed at shielding detention from scrutiny. The paper suggests that in the field of immigration detention, the role and impact of misleading language on policy and perception appears to be quite significant and merits more attention from scholars and advocates. Read paper: http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/publications/project-publications/smoke-screens.html
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Michael Flynn, PhD
Manager & Lead Researcher
Global Detention Project
Programme for the Study of Global Migration
http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/
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Phone: +41 (0) 22 908 4556
Fax: +41 (0) 22 908 4594
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New contribution on the Debate Forum of URBAN REFUGEES: "New Approaches to Urban Refugee Livelihoods", by Dale Buscher. Link: http://urban-refugees.org/debate/approaches-urban-refugee-livelihoods/
This piece lays out strategies to address the challenges confronting urban refugees' ability to enter and compete in the labor market. The author argues that new approaches and different partnerships are needed for the design and implementation of economic programs.
The piece, as usual, is open for comments and further discussion online. Kindly note that it is a shortened version of an article published in 2011 in the review Refuge (volume 28, n 2).
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