New GDP Detention Profiles
http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/

Lebanon
http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/countries/middle-east/lebanon/introduction.html
Lebanon is host to some 500,000 refugees and asylum seekers, including 
more than 400,000 Palestinians, most of whom are registered with the UN 
Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. The 
country has been a destination or transit state for immigrants and 
asylum seekers from across the globe, including Sudan, Ethiopia, Sri 
Lanka, Egypt, Bangladesh, the Philippines, India, Iraq, Pakistan, Nepal, 
Tanzania, and Syria. Lebanese authorities use ordinary prisons to 
incarcerate both irregular migrants and asylum seekers, who are 
generally charged with criminal violations because of their immigration 
status. After completing prison sentences, migrants are held in 
administrative detention until they can be deported. There is no 
established maximum limit on the duration of administrative detention. 
Lebanon is not a party to the 1951 Refugee Convention or its 1967 Protocol.

Bulgaria
http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/countries/europe/bulgaria/introduction.html
Located in the south-eastern corner of the European Union (EU), Bulgaria 
is a transit country for immigrants and asylum seekers heading to 
Western Europe from the Greater Middle East (Ilareva 2008). The number 
of migrants crossing into the country, however, is smaller than that of 
other EU border countries, such as Poland and Hungary. Bulgaria's 
detention infrastructure is similarly smaller, although the country's 
sole dedicated immigration detention facility has been heavily 
criticized because of the poor treatment of detainees. This includes a 
lack of medical care, which was blamed for the 2009 death of a Syrian 
migrant who had been held in detention for nearly three years.

Latvia
http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/countries/europe/latvia/introduction.html
Located on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, Latvia shares borders 
with four countries—Estonia, Russia, Belarus, and Lithuania. Shortly 
after independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Latvia restored its 
pre-1922 Constitution, and since joining the European Union in 2004 the 
country has become a key Euro frontier state. Latvia’s immigration and 
asylum policies, including measures for detention and expulsion, have 
been developed to meet EU acquis standards. The country has received 
substantial financial and technical support from Nordic countries, the 
EU PHARE programme, and the International Organisation for Migration to 
strengthen its legal framework and management capacity with respect to 
the treatment of irregular foreign nationals.

Lithuania
http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/countries/europe/lithuania/introduction.html
Since independence in 1990, Lithuania has become an important 
destination for irregular migrants and asylum seekers from the former 
Soviet republics and Central Asia, receiving considerably higher numbers 
of asylum seekers compared to the other Baltic countries. Since it 
became a European Union member in 2004, Lithuania’s eastern frontier has 
become an external border for the Euro zone. In addition, Lithuania is 
an immigrant source country and a key country of origin of trafficked 
peoples. Although Lithuania does not generally detain asylum seekers, 
irregular migrants are often detained for as long as nine months in 
conditions that observers qualify as very poor.

Podcast
http://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/qeh/detention/1-2-flynn.mp3?CAMEFROM=podcastsGET
"Immigration Detention and the Aesthetics of Incarceration," 
Presentation by the Global Detention Project, Oxford Immigration 
Detention Workshop, 28 June 2010. For other presentations from the 
conference, see Podcasts from the University of Oxford: 
http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/?feed=qeh-rsc-detention-audio-feed#qeh-rsc-detention-audio-feed

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Global Detention Project
Programme for the Study of Global Migration
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Geneva, Switzerland

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