1) Is Infiltrating Migrant Prisons the Most Effective Way to Challenge Detention Regimes? The Case of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance
Global Detention Project Working Paper No. 17
By Claudia Munoz & Michael P. Young, October 2016
Since 2011, members of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance have repeatedly “infiltrated” immigration detention centers in the United States. This paper describes these infiltrations by undocumented immigrants and what we can learn from them. The stories, told from the perspective of the infiltrators, reveal details that non-profit organizations and activist scholars have struggled to illuminate, something that only the detained and liberated can show: the lived experience of detention. The authors argue that these stories demonstrate that civil disobedience, a strategy often ignored by allies and advocates of undocumented immigrants, can be an effective tool to counter growing detention and deportation systems. Read here: https://www.globaldetentionproject.org/infiltrating-migrant-prisons-effective-way-challenge-detention-regimes-case-national-immigrant-youth-alliance
2) Symposium: Legal Mobilization and Juridification: Migration as a Central Case. Law and Policy 38(4) 269-348. Susan Sterett, Saskia Bonjour, Lisa Conant, Dagmar Soennecken
In a symposium in Law and Policy, Saskia Bonjour, Lisa Conant and Dagmar Soennecken contribute new research demonstrating the centrality of governing migration to understanding the widely discussed extensions of judicial authority in politics in Europe. Their separate studies each demonstrate the value of broadening the scope of studying courts beyond legal reasoning or outcomes in cases. In her lively discussion of family court decisions in Germany in the 1970s, Bonjour argues that organizations amplify the meaning of court decisions to try to gain leverage in other institutions. Conant argues that the mobilization of the right against torture in the European Court of Human Rights is driven not by threats of torture in the state where complainants reside; most cases come from states widely recognized as protecting rights better than most. Instead, the risk of deportation, especially under the global war on terror, has driven claims. Soennecken argues that Germany responded to increasing numbers of asylum seeking claims with docket control measures. Together, the articles contribute to understanding the role of migration in driving rights mobilization and claims for judicial authority in Europe.
3) The article ‘Gender and Refugee Integration: a Quantitative Analysis of Integration and Social Policy Outcomes’ is now out in the Journal of Social Policy - link below. We argue there is a need for gender sensitive integration policy and practice.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-social-policy/article/gender-and-refugee-integration-a-quantitative-analysis-of-integration-and-social-policy-outcomes/436AACF96C756372E784AD245FFE2E61
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