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New GDP Report: Immigration Detention in the United Kingdom UK Detention Profile June 2011 http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/countries/europe/united-kingdom/introduction.html In December 2010, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced that the United Kingdom was eliminating its policy of long-term immigration detention of children, claiming that there had a been "a big culture shift within our immigration system," one which places "values above paranoia over our borders.” Many observers in the UK, however, contest this claim, arguing that much remains to be done to reform the UK immigration detention estate, which has grown exponentially in the last two decades. In 1993, the country had an immigration detention capacity of some 250. By 2003, it was operating seven immigration removal centres with a capacity of approximately 1,600. By 2011, the estate had grown to 15 dedicated facilities with a total estimated capacity of 3,500. Please send all replies to: [log in to unmask] Contact Global Detention Project Programme for the Study of Global Migration Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva, Switzerland Tel: +41 22 908 4556 Fax: +41 22 9084594 Email: [log in to unmask] -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by Forced Migration Online, Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this message please retain this disclaimer. Quotations or extracts should include attribution to the original sources. E-mail: [log in to unmask] Posting guidelines: http://www.forcedmigration.org/discussion/guidelines Subscribe/unsubscribe: http://tinyurl.com/fmlist-join-leave List Archives: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html RSS: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?RSS&L=forced-migration Twitter: http://twitter.com/forcedmigration