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Rimkeviciene, Jurgita, John O’Gorman, and Diego De Leo. "Suicidality in detention centres: a case study." International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care 13, no. 1 (March 6, 2017): 106–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijmhsc-09-2015-0034.

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Purpose Recent reports raise suicidality among asylum seekers as a pertinent issue in current Australian offshore detention centres. However, knowledge on the nature of the suicidality in these centres is very limited. The purpose of this paper is to explore in depth how suicidality arises and develops in offshore detention centres. Design/methodology/approach A single case study approach was used. Findings This case study presents the findings on the suicidal process of an asylum seeker who attempted suicide three times while in Nauru Regional Processing Centre, the last of which being a near-lethal one. The prolonged mandatory detention, together with lack of clarity about the timeframes of detention and constant postponing of the legal processes were identified as the main factors driving the suicidal intent. The suicidal behaviour escalated from an interrupted attempt to a near lethal one within two years, which signals lack of adequate suicide prevention within detention. Practical implications The resources for mental health being limited in Nauru, it is likely overall changes in refugee status processing may be a more effective suicide prevention strategy rather than implementation of other additional measures. Originality/value Studies in offshore processing facilities have been scarce due to barriers for researchers to access the detention centres. This study offers a unique insight into suicidality in this hard to reach population.

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McAndrew, Mark P. "Detention Centres and the RANZP." Australasian Psychiatry 12, no. 1 (March 2004): 84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1039-8562.2003.02067.x.

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Thorley-Smith, Sara. "Educational Policies in Detention Centres." Current Issues in Criminal Justice 3, no. 2 (November 1991): 189–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10345329.1991.12036518.

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SEYMOUR-BUTLER, AIDAN. "“Escaping the Sunken Place: indefinite detention, asylum seekers, and resistance in Yarl’s Wood IRC”." Denning Law Journal 31, no. 1 (January 3, 2020): 167–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.5750/dlj.v31i1.1674.

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The Law Society has recently raised concerns about the UK’s migration system, stating that ‘failures in UK immigration and asylum undermine the rule of law’. Nowhere are those problems more apparent than in the UK’s handling of migrants and asylum seekers in detention centres. A particular recurring issue that speaks to the Law Society’s concern is the absence of a defined time limit for immigration detention. The possibility of indefinite detention has been a source of tension both within British politics, and within UK immigration detention centres. An example of this can be understood with reference to the Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) in Bedfordshire, known for its controversial and rebellious past. In 2015 Nick Hardwick, a former chief prisoner inspector, labelled the Centre a place of ‘national concern’, after examining the mistreatment of vulnerable detainees. Yarl’s Wood’s problematic history, seems to have continued into the present, following a detainee led hunger strike that resulted in ‘renewed concerns’ over health care in detention centres. In addition to protesting the standard of medical treatment received by detainees, the strikers’ underlying focus was on indefinite detention. The Home Office’s response to these strikes was unsympathetic, it sent a letter to detainees suggesting that their continued participation in the strike may in fact result in their removal being accelerated. Although, the hunger strike ended in March 2018 the Home Office’s response to the strike raised some interesting legal and philosophical questions about human rights and resistance in detention centres. In order to grapple with some of these issues, this paper has been separated into two parts. The first part will attempt to contextualise the existing immigration regime and explore how legal disputes might fit within the broader scheme of opposing indefinite detention. It will also briefly examine the legal challenges that may arise from the use of threats of accelerated deportations.

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Rzeźniczak, Angelika. "Suicides in Penitentiaries and Detention Centres." Teisė 116 (October 6, 2020): 147–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/teise.2020.116.11.

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This article deals with the problem of suicides and self-inflicted injuries in prisons and detention centres. The main aim of the article is an attempt to determine the characteristics of a prisoner who performs self-destructive behavior. The second aim is to get to know better the problems of inmates committing suicides. Knowing these problems will help to find preventive solutions. The article describes the information collected during interviews with 18 people, including: prisoners (women and men), prison chaplains, directors of prisons, officers and employees of penitentiary units.

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Ward, Tyler Dickens, and Dennis Raphael. "Canada’s Detention of Children in Immigration Holding Centres." International Journal of Children’s Rights 27, no. 3 (August 9, 2019): 563–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15718182-02703003.

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Between 2015–2016, 201 children were held in detention in the Toronto Immigration Holding Centre (Canada Border Services Agency, 2017). There may have been even more held across Canada, but these figures are unavailable. Child detention is illegal under international law and causes serious mental, physical, and emotional health complications. In this article we discuss Canada’s detention of children drawing upon scholarship in the areas of (a) human rights and the law; (b) children’s health and health equity; and (c) the political economy of the welfare state. The paper provides alternatives to Canadian practices by describing child detention best practices.

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Kronick, Rachel, Janet Cleveland, and Cécile Rousseau. "“Do you want to help or go to war?”: Ethical challenges of critical research in immigration detention in Canada." Journal of Social and Political Psychology 6, no. 2 (December 21, 2018): 644–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v6i2.926.

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In a time of mass displacement, countries across the globe are seeking to protect borders through coercive methods of deterrence such as immigration detention. In Canada, migrants—including children—may be detained in penal facilities having neither been charged nor convicted of crimes. In this paper we examine how we dealt with the series of ethical dilemmas that emerged while doing research in immigration detention centres in Canada. Using a critical ethnographic approach, we examine the process of our research in the field, seeking to understand what our emotional responses and those of the staff could tell us about detention itself, but also about what is at stake when researchers are faced with the suffering of participants in these spaces of confinement. The findings suggest that field work in immigration detention centres is an emotionally demanding process and that there were several pivotal moments in which our sense of moral and clinical obligations toward distressed detainees, especially children, were in conflict with our role as researchers. We also grapple with how the disciplinary gaze of the detention centre affects researchers entering the space. Given these tensions, we argue, spaces of critical reflection that can consider and contain the strongly evoked emotions are crucial, both for researchers, and perhaps more challengingly, for detention centre employees and gatekeepers as well.

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Sharples, Rachel. "Disrupting State Spaces: Asylum Seekers in Australia’s Offshore Detention Centres." Social Sciences 10, no. 3 (March 1, 2021): 82. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci10030082.

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The Australian government has spent over a billion dollars a year on managing offshore detention (Budget 2018–2019). Central to this offshore management was the transference and mandatory detention of asylum seekers in facilities that sit outside Australia’s national sovereignty, in particular on Manus Island (Papua New Guinea) and Nauru. As a state-sanctioned spatial aberration meant to deter asylum seekers arriving by boat, offshore detention has resulted in a raft of legal and policy actions that are reshaping the modern state-centric understanding of the national space. It has raised questions of sovereignty, of moral, ethical and legal obligations, of national security and humanitarian responsibilities, and of nationalism and belonging. Using a sample of Twitter users on Manus during the closure of the Manus Island detention centre in October–November 2017, this paper examines how asylum seekers and refugees have negotiated and defined the offshore detention space and how through the use of social media they have created a profound disruption to the state discourse on offshore detention. The research is based on the premise that asylum seekers’ use social media in a number of disruptive ways, including normalising the presence of asylum seekers in the larger global phenomena of migration, humanising asylum seekers in the face of global discourses of dehumanisation, ensuring visibility by confirming the conditions of detention, highlighting Australia’s human rights violations and obligations, and challenging the government discourse on asylum seekers and offshore detention. Social media is both a tool and a vehicle by which asylum seekers on Manus Island could effect that disruption.

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Puthoopparambil, Soorej Jose, Beth Maina Ahlberg, and Magdalena Bjerneld. "“A prison with extra flavours”: experiences of immigrants in Swedish immigration detention centres." International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care 11, no. 2 (June 15, 2015): 73–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijmhsc-10-2014-0042.

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Purpose – The immigration detention environment largely influences the health and well-being of detainees by either aggravating medical conditions or contributing to new illness. There is limited research on how detainees experience and try to cope with this environment. The purpose of this paper is to describe experiences of detainees in Swedish immigration detention centres. Design/methodology/approach – Semi-structured interviews were conducted in three detention centres with a total of 21 detainees who had been detained for at least two weeks. Interview transcripts were analysed using thematic analysis. Findings – The detainees likened immigration detention to imprisonment. They experienced lack of control over their life situation mainly through arbitrary restrictions and lack of proper response from authorities making it appear futile to seek help. This perceived lack of control forced them into passivity. Differences in amenities provided in the centres were observed and some of these were reported to assist in making detention more bearable. Research limitations/implications – This study provides only one stakeholder perspective. The perspectives of other stakeholders, such as detention staff, health care professionals and volunteers must be explored to improve understanding and mitigate the effects of detention. Originality/value – Irrespective of the better standards of detention in Sweden, the detainees considered detention as imprisonment affecting their health and well-being. If states deem detention to be necessary, improved staff-detainee interaction should be ensured through proper staff training, arbitrary restrictions within detention should be avoided and health care services should be improved.

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The Lancet. "Mental illness in Australian immigration detention centres." Lancet 375, no. 9713 (February 2010): 434. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(10)60179-1.

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Newman, Louise, Tim Lightfoot, Gillian Singleton, Jorge Aroche, Choong-Siew Yong, Sandra Eagar, Amanda Gordon, Paul Kotala, Anna Whelan, and Maxine Whittaker. "Mental illness in Australian immigration detention centres." Lancet 375, no. 9723 (April 2010): 1344–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(10)60571-5.

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Newton, J. L. N., and M. Smith. "Detention Centres—an opportunity for Health Education." Journal of the Institute of Health Education 23, no. 2 (January 1985): 53–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03073289.1985.10805585.

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Jaffe, Susan. "Funding redirected to pay for immigrant detention centres." Lancet 392, no. 10157 (October 2018): 1505–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(18)32626-6.

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The Lancet. "Health care for children in UK detention centres." Lancet 372, no. 9652 (November 2008): 1783. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(08)61738-9.

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Arnold, F. "Support for doctors working in immigration detention centres." BMJ 350, feb24 10 (February 24, 2015): h1008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h1008.

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Kosky, Robert John, Michael Gifford Sawyer, and Michael Fotheringham. "The Mental Health Status of Adolescents Released from Custody: A Preliminary Study." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 30, no. 3 (June 1996): 326–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00048679609064994.

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Objective: To describe the prevalence of mental health problems and the social circumstances of young offenders after their release from custody in a juvenile detention centre. Method: The subjects were 37 adolescents from an original sample of 101 adolescents who had been remanded in a juvenile detention centre in Adelaide, South Australia. The adolescents were evaluated at the time of their initial detention in custody and again 1 year later. Results: The adolescents reported having a large number of social and mental health problems after their release from custody. One year after their release, 32% of the adolescents scored above the recommended ‘cut off score on the Youth Self Report. This represents a rate of disorder three to four times higher than that reported by adolescents in the community and is comparable to the rate reported by adolescents attending mental health clinics. Conclusions: Adolescents remanded in juvenile detention centres experience continuing mental health problems after their release from custody. As well, they experience considerable social dysfunction. There is an urgent need for more active therapeutic follow-up of these young people.

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Bosworth, Mary. "Subjectivity and identity in detention: Punishment and society in a global age." Theoretical Criminology 16, no. 2 (May 2012): 123–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362480612441116.

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This article draws on ethnographic research that I conducted in five British immigration removal centres from November 2009 to June 2011, and considers the challenges these institutions pose to our understanding of penal power. These centres contain a complex mix of foreign national citizens including former and current asylum seekers, those without visas, visa over-stayers and post-sentence foreign national prisoners. For many non-British offenders, a period of confinement in an immigration detention centre is now, effectively, part of their punishment. What are the implications of this dual confinement and (how) can we understand it within the intellectual framework of punishment and society?

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Schmidt, Jacek. "Detencja cudzoziemców jako temat badawczy i wyzwanie metodologiczne." Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny 46, no. 2 (176) (2020): 91–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/25444972smpp.20.013.12329.

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Detention of Foreigners as a Research Topic and Methodological Challenge The paper presents the conceptual and methodological assumptions (research strategies) regarding the project “Space organisation in Polish detention centres for foreigners”. This pioneer research project studies detention centres as a total institution, which so far was outside the area of academic interest. An interdisciplinary, one-year group research project in all six guarded centres for foreigners in Poland involved an original, eclectic concept of studying the organisational culture of total institutions. This concept referred to various theoretical inspirations, such as proxemics, kinesics, symbolic interactionism, morphogenesis theory, the model of patron-client relations, the concept of morality economics, etc. Keywords: total institutions, detention of foreigners, research strategies, interdisciplinarity Streszczenie Tekst zawiera prezentację koncepcji i założeń metodologicznych (strategii badawczych) projektu „Organizacja przestrzeni w polskich ośrodkach detencyjnych dla cudzoziemców”. Jest to pionierskie przedsięwzięcie badawcze realizowane w instytucji totalnej, która do tej pory pozostawała poza oglądem przedstawicieli nauk społecznych. Roczne badania zespołowe, które przeprowadzono we wszystkich sześciu strzeżonych ośrodków dla cudzoziemców w Polsce miały charakter interdyscyplinarny, wymagały opracowania autorskiej, a zarazem eklektycznej koncepcji badania kultury organizacyjnej instytucji totalnej, odwołującej się do różnych inspiracji teoretycznych (proksemika, kinezyka, interakcjonizm symboliczny, teoria morfogenezy, koncepcja „patron-klient”, koncepcja ekonomii moralności i in.).

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LENNINGS, CHRISTOPHER, and MONICA PRITCHARD. "Prevalence of drug use prior to detention among residents of youth detention centres in Queensland." Drug and Alcohol Review 18, no. 2 (June 1999): 145–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09595239996572.

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Kukushkina, Lyubov' A., and Nikolay A. Redkov. "Legal upbringing of minors in the context of the growth of crime determination." Vestnik of Kostroma State University, no. 2 (2019): 251–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2019-25-2-251-255.

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The article reveals the essence and features of legal upbringing of minors, as well as the most pressing problems arising in this area. Separately, the authors highlight the problem of legal upbringing of adolescents placed in Temporary detention centres for juvenile offenders. The authors propose a number of measures aimed at reducing and preventing juvenile delinquency, including: the need to introduce a special course in the training system or individual programme specialised for training that would reveal the specifics of temporary detention centres' workers with respect to minors and specifics of work with them.

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Briskman, Linda. "Technology, Control, and Surveillance in Australia’s Immigration Detention Centres." Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees 29, no. 1 (October 18, 2013): 9–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.37502.

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Although mandatory immigration detention for “unauthorized” arrivals in Australia receives considerable attention, the use and abuse by government of technologies within sites of detention is less publicized. Control and surveillance are exercised in a number of ways. Immigration detainees have been denied adequate access to technologies that would enable them to fully communicate with family and friends and are deprived of the capacity to acquire information that can ensure their human rights are realized. At the same time that asylum seekers experience restrictions, devices are in place to control detainees through technological surveillance. Despite the prohibitions and impositions, detainees have adopted alternative means of communication in defi ance of the limits foisted upon them.

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De Angelis, Maria. "Female Asylum Seekers: A Critical Attitude on UK Immigration Removal Centres." Social Policy and Society 19, no. 2 (June 11, 2019): 207–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1474746419000216.

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The context to this article is sovereign biopower as experienced by female asylum seekers in the confined spaces of UK Immigration Removal Centres (IRCs). With approximately 27,000 migrants entering immigration detention in 2017, the UK’s immigration detention estate is one of the largest in Western Europe. Through an empirical study with former detainees, this article outlines how women experience Agamben’s politically bare life through IRC practices that confine, dehumanise, and compound their asylum vulnerabilities. It also explains how micro-transgressions around detention food, social relations, and faith practices reflect a Foucauldian critical attitude and restore a degree of political agency to asylum applicants. Centrally this article argues that everyday acts of resistance – confirming their identities as human / gendered / cultural beings with social belonging – can be read as political agency in women’s questioning of their asylum administration. As such, this article offers a rare insight on biopower and political agency as lived and performed by women inside the in/exclusive spaces of the IRC.

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Green, Janette P., and Kathy Eagar. "The health of people in Australian immigration detention centres." Medical Journal of Australia 192, no. 2 (January 2010): 65–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb03419.x.

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The Lancet. "Pulling the plug on drug detention centres in Asia." Lancet 380, no. 9840 (August 2012): 448. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(12)61278-1.

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Woods, Phil, Don Leidl, Lorna Butler, Jason Stonechild, and Janet Luimes. "Police services detention centres: a proposed solution for action." Police Practice and Research 18, no. 2 (September 9, 2016): 119–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15614263.2016.1230852.

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Garvis, Susanne, and Lindy Austin. "The Forgotten Children in Australian Detention Centres before 2005." Australasian Journal of Early Childhood 32, no. 1 (March 2007): 19–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/183693910703200104.

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Nunez, Llifen Palacios, and Anna Copeland. "Solitary Confinement within Juvenile Detention Centres in Western Australia." International Journal of Children’s Rights 25, no. 3-4 (November 17, 2017): 716–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15718182-02503007.

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This article examines the use of solitary confinement of juveniles within the Western Australian justice system. Examining the legal framework, it points to the issues of inadequate accountability and oversight. Often manifesting itself under different names such as regression or simply confinement, it still results in extended periods of social isolation, minimal environmental stimulation and minimal opportunity for social interaction. The negative consequences of such confinement on children and young people are briefly examined before it is considered within the international human rights framework, specifically, in light of Australia’s international obligations and their stated commitment to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Beijing Rules and Havana Guidelines.

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Peterie, Michelle. "Deprivation, Frustration, and Trauma: Immigration Detention Centres as Prisons." Refugee Survey Quarterly 37, no. 3 (July 3, 2018): 279–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/rsq/hdy008.

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Pickering, Sharon, and Caroline Lambert. "Immigration Detention Centres, Human Rights and Criminology in Australia." Current Issues in Criminal Justice 13, no. 2 (November 2001): 219–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10345329.2001.12036227.

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Ewing, Bronwyn. "Point: Rethinking education for children in juvenile detention centres." Curriculum Perspectives 41, no. 2 (September 2021): 227–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41297-021-00145-5.

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Breuls, Lars. "Understanding immigration detention." Journal of Organizational Ethnography 9, no. 2 (December 26, 2019): 129–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/joe-01-2019-0003.

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Purpose A reflexive ethnographic account of the practical and emotional challenges encountered by the researcher during fieldwork is too often separated from the analytical research results, which, as argued by this paper, downplays or even ignores the analytical value of the encountered challenges. Drawing on personal examples from ethnographic research in immigration detention, the purpose of this paper is to show that these challenges have an intrinsic analytical value. Design/methodology/approach Ethnographic research was carried out in two immigration detention centres in Belgium and one in the Netherlands. Observations, informal conversations with detainees and staff, and semi-structured interviews with detainees were triangulated. Extracts from fieldnotes are presented and discussed to demonstrate the analytical value of the challenges experienced during fieldwork. Findings Three important challenges are presented: distrust from organisational gatekeepers and research participants, disruptions of the organisational routines, and witnessing and experiencing feelings of powerlessness. The analytical value of these challenges is strongly connected to theoretical and analytical themes that emerged during the research. Originality/value Ethnographic researchers are encouraged to explicitly treat the reflexive accounts of practical and emotional challenges as “data in itself” and as such nested within their analytical results.

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Edwards, Alice. "THE OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE AND THE DETENTION OF REFUGEES." International and Comparative Law Quarterly 57, no. 4 (October 2008): 789–825. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020589308000596.

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AbstractThe Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture entered into force on 22 June 2006. It establishes a Sub-Committee for the Prevention of Torture that has authority to visit places of detention and to assess the conditions of that detention as a way to reduce the incidence of torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Additionally, States parties are required to set up complementary national preventive mechanisms. This article explores both how these mechanisms established under the Optional Protocol could operate in the context of the detention of refugees and/or asylum-seekers, which is an increasingly common occurrence in many parts of the world, as well as whether they add value to existing international mechanisms that are already available in this field. It examines the purported applicability of the Optional Protocol to four refugee/asylum situations, namely detention at airports and other border zones; immigration (or administrative) detention, including semi-open (or semi-closed) asylum centres; closed refugee camps; and extraterritorial processing or holding centres. Reviewing definitional, jurisdictional, and practical issues that may impact on the success or otherwise of these new preventive mechanisms, this article concludes by making a number of recommendations to aid their work in the refugee/asylum context.

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Canning, Victoria. "Keeping up with the kladdkaka: Kindness and coercion in Swedish immigration detention centres." European Journal of Criminology 17, no. 6 (January 3, 2019): 723–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1477370818820627.

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Unlike many of its neighbouring North European countries, Sweden has historically been reluctant to expand its use of immigration detention. Likewise, and similar to its use of prisons, it is a state that often favours architectural ‘softness’ in the structure and regime of detention. However, as this article contends, its reputation for hospitality and welfare is in contrast with the very existence of such spaces. Reflecting on interviews with detention custody officers and governors in two such centres, I demonstrate how ‘hard’ approaches to control are instead supplemented with dualistically ‘kind’ and coercive measures to obtain their ultimate agenda: the deportation of the unwanted immigrant Other. Considering the harms inherent to imprisonment, I argue that – although preferable to harsher conditions enacted by various other states – the negative impacts of confinement cannot be eradicated by ‘soft’ approaches, but rather require the eradication of border confinement itself.

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Fiske, Lucy. "Human Rights and Refugee Protest against Immigration Detention: Refugees’ Struggles for Recognition as Human." Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees 32, no. 1 (May 6, 2016): 18–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.40380.

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When detainees go on hunger strike or riot or occupy the roofs of detention centres, their actions are usually narrated by governments keen to discredit them and their actions as criminal and manipulative and evidence of their barbarity and difference. A secondary, counter-narration is provided by detainee supporters who explain the actions as evidence of detainees’ distress and deteriorating mental health. The voices of the actors themselves, people held in detention and taking protest action, are rarely heard in depth. Drawing on in-depth interviews with refugees formerly held in Australian immigration detention centres, and the works of Hannah Arendt, this article argues that the experience of immigration detention is fundamentally dehumanizing and that while detainee protest was aimed at attaining certain material outcomes, it also served important existential functions. The fact of protest was a rejection of a powerless state, a way for detained refugees to experience their own agency and, with it, restoration of some of the “essential characteristics of human life” and a means to use their reduction to “bare humanity” as a basis for insisting upon a place in the polis.

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Bergenstrom, Anne, and Gino Vumbaca. "Compulsory drug detention centres: time to question their continued use?" Lancet Global Health 5, no. 2 (February 2017): e123-e124. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s2214-109x(16)30352-7.

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Ward, Tyler Dickens, and Dennis Raphael. "Erratum to: “Canada’s Detention of Children in Immigration Holding Centres." International Journal of Children’s Rights 27, no. 3 (November 4, 2019): 562. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15718182-02703011.

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Hidalgo, Emilse B. "Argentina’s former secret detention centres: Between demolition, modification and preservation." Journal of Material Culture 17, no. 2 (May 29, 2012): 191–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359183512442610.

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Muncie, John. "Failure never matters: detention centres and the politics of deterrence." Critical Social Policy 10, no. 28 (July 1990): 53–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026101839001002804.

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Parry, J. "Close down Cambodia's drug detention centres, say human rights activists." BMJ 340, jan27 2 (January 27, 2010): c506. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.c506.

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Mooney, H. "Detention centres are bad for immigrant children's health, study finds." BMJ 339, oct15 1 (October 15, 2009): b4219. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.b4219.

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Peterie, Michelle. "Technologies of control: Asylum seeker and volunteer experiences in Australian immigration detention facilities." Journal of Sociology 55, no. 2 (September 3, 2018): 181–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1440783318796301.

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This article documents the experiences of volunteer visitors to Australia’s onshore immigration detention facilities, and considers what they reveal about the operation of power within this detention network. While immigration detention systems (including Australia’s) have received considerable academic attention in recent years, few scholars have examined the experiences of volunteers. Further, while the existing scholarship points to the negative impacts of immigration detention on detainees, the question of how these outcomes are produced at the level of daily institutional life has gone largely unanswered. The testimonies presented here provide a valuable window onto daily life in Australia’s onshore immigration detention centres, highlighting the opaque and capricious mechanisms through which they produce emotional distress in both asylum seekers and their supporters. In documenting these mechanisms and their effects, this article shows how ‘deterrence’ is enacted through the small and seemingly innocuous details of institutional life.

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Van Hout, Marie-Claire, Cassie Lungu-Byrne, and Jennifer Germain. "Migrant health situation when detained in European immigration detention centres: a synthesis of extant qualitative literature." International Journal of Prisoner Health 16, no. 3 (June 1, 2020): 221–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijph-12-2019-0074.

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Purpose Many migrants are detained in Europe not because they have committed a crime but because of lack of certainty over their immigration status. Although generally in good physical health on entry to Europe, migrant detainees have complex health needs, often related to mental health. Very little is known about the current health situation and health care needs of migrants when detained in European immigration detention settings. The review aims to synthesize the qualitative literature available on this issue from the perspectives of staff and migrants. Design/methodology/approach The authors undertook a synthesis of extant qualitative literature on migrant health experience and health situation when detained in European immigration detention settings; retrieved as part of a large-scale scoping review. Included records (n = 4) from Sweden and the UK representing both detainee and staff experiences were charted, synthesised and thematically analysed. Findings Three themes emerged from the analysis, namely, conditions in immigration detention settings, uncertainties and communication barriers and considerations of migrant detainee health. Conditions were described as inhumane, resembling prison and underpinned by communication difficulties, lack of adequate nutrition and responsive health care. Practical implications It is crucial that the experiences underpinning migration are understood to respond to the health needs of migrants, uphold their health rights and to ensure equitable access to health care in immigration detention settings. Originality/value There is a dearth of qualitative research in this area because of the difficulty of access to immigration detention settings for migrants. The authors highlight the critical need for further investigation of migrant health needs, so as to inform appropriate staff support and health service responses.

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Liddell, Max, and Chris Goddard. "Australian governments protecting children in detention: A view through the looking glass." Children Australia 30, no. 1 (2005): 11–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200010531.

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This article analyses the Australian Government’s communications on children in immigration detention, particularly those detained at Woomera and Baxter Detention Centres. The authors examine paradoxes and ‘double-bind’ theory; theory which analyses communications which continually put the target of them in the wrong and allow no escape. The analysis uses selected passages from Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and ‘Through the Looking Glass’ to highlight the nature and impact of such communication. The authors conclude that the Australian Government has consistently used paradoxical communication. In doing so it has placed children and families in detention, child protection workers, the South Australian Government, and sometimes external critics in a communication trap from which it is difficult to escape. Other bodies such as Courts have also demonstrated much paradox in their behaviour and communications on detention issues.

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Conte, Gonzalo. "A topography of memory: Reconstructing the architectures of terror in the Argentine dictatorship." Memory Studies 8, no. 1 (October 9, 2014): 86–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750698014552411.

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This essay introduces the work of Memoria Abierta (Open Memory), a non-governmental organisation that compiles, organises and distributes the mass of documentary evidence from human rights organisations and other personal and institutional archives connected to State terrorism in Argentina. It collates testimony on social and political life of the 1960s and 1970s and works on the territorial and spatial memory of the period of political violence in Argentina. Specifically, the ‘Topography of Memory’ section collects, systematises and produces documentation about sites, buildings and spaces that were used as spaces of temporary detention and clandestine detention centres, as well as spaces of recognition and remembrance. The decision to include architecture among the disciplines contributing to the organisation’s memory work has opened up possibilities for visualising the spaces that form the backdrop to the victims’ experience, as well walking through them. I shall discuss spaces where crimes were committed, including clandestine detention centres in urban, semi-urban and rural areas. Architectonic memory involves territories where traumatic events happened, ones characterised by the systematic use of repressive practices.

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Swift, Geraldine, M. Nasir, John D. Sheehan, and Patricia R. Casey. "Junior doctors' experience and knowledge of procedures in compulsory psychiatric admissions in Ireland." Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine 18, no. 1 (March 2001): 21–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0790966700006170.

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AbstractObjectives: Prompted by the current debate in Ireland regarding involuntary detention, we undertook a survey of psychiatric trainees to examine their level of knowledge of the legislation governing such admissions.Method: Eighty psychiatric trainees working in centres affiliated to a particular training scheme were invited to complete a purpose-designed instrument.Results: Response rate was 52/80. Trainees were well informed concerning the procedures necessary to initiate detention. Their knowledge of the legal indications for involuntary detention and restrictions on its duration was patchy.Conclusions: We suggest that training in the area of mental health legislation needs to be increased and to focus on satisfying legal requirements in real-life scenarios.

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Nováková, Iveta. "Role of EU and National Legislation in Shaping Communication in Police Detention Centres." Internal Security 12, no. 2 (December 30, 2020): 26–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.6689.

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The study is devoted to a discussion on selected issues relating to the EU and national legislation which determine the process of the mainstream communication with third-country nationals in the Police Detention Centres. The study is a part of the ongoing research project of the Department of Foreign Languages of the Academy of the Police Force in Bratislava and the Bureau of the Border and Foreign Police of the Presidium of the Police Force, Slovakia titled Intercultural Communication with third-country nationals in the Police Detention Centres. The research attempts to find the answer to the following question: What means of intercultural communication (verbal and non-verbal) do police officers use with third-country nationals for mutual understanding, avoiding conflicts and correct adherence to human rights? Following the findings of the intermediate legislative and applied research, the author points out the main reasons which lead to certain difficulties in performing understandable communication in the Police Detention Centres such as loopholes in the EU legislation, non-conformity of the EU and national legislation in using the state (national) vs foreign language in official service communication with third-country nationals whose stay is unauthorised in the territory of the Slovak Republic, and in the EU and the Schengen Area, and their residence or entry into the Schengen Area is detected as irregular and subsequently clarified, with respective accountability.

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Klein, Axel, and Lucy Williams. "Immigration Detention in the Community: Research on the Experiences of Migrants Released from Detention Centres in the UK." Population, Space and Place 18, no. 6 (June 21, 2012): 741–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/psp.1725.

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Boza Martínez, Diego, and Dévika Pérez Medina. "New Migrant Detention Strategies in Spain: Short-Term Assistance Centres and Internment Centres for Foreign Nationals." Paix et Securite Internationales, no. 7 (2019): 261–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.25267/10.25267/paix_secur_int.2019.i7.08.

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Boza Martínez, Diego, and Dévika Pérez Medina. "New Migrant Detention Strategies in Spain: Short-Term Assistance Centres and Internment Centres for Foreign Nationals." Paix et Securite Internationales, no. 7 (2019): 261–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.25267/paix_secur_int.2019.i7.08.

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Ehntholt, Kimberly A., David Trickey, Jean Harris Hendriks, Hannah Chambers, Mark Scott, and William Yule. "Mental health of unaccompanied asylum-seeking adolescents previously held in British detention centres." Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 23, no. 2 (March 22, 2018): 238–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359104518758839.

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Aim: To investigate whether the mental health of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) was negatively affected by having their ages disputed and being detained. Method: Participants within this cross-sectional study were 35 UASC, aged between 13 and 17 when they were detained. Some years later, a team of child mental health professionals interviewed them to assess their current mental health and to determine, as far as possible, the impact that having their age disputed and being detained may have had on their mental health. The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID-IV), Reactions of Adolescents to Traumatic Stress (RATS), Stressful Life Events (SLE) and Detention Experiences Checklist–UK version (DEC-UK) were administered. Results: The vast majority of UASC reported being negatively affected. Based on diagnostic interviews using the SCID-IV, self-report measures and contemporaneous records, the professionals reported a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) developing in 29% ( n = 10), PTSD exacerbated in 51% ( n = 18), major depressive disorder (MDD) developing in 23% ( n = 8) and MDD exacerbated in 40% ( n = 14). A total of 3 years post-detention, 89% ( n = 31) met diagnostic criteria for psychiatric disorders and reported high PTSD symptoms. Conclusion: There was a high prevalence of psychiatric disorder. The additional stress of age dispute procedures and detention was judged to have been harmful.

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