Working Papers

When Is Immigration Detention Lawful? The Monitoring Practices of UN Human Rights Mechanisms

Global Detention Project Working Paper No. 21 By Mariette Gange and Izabella Majcher February 2017   This Global Detention Project Working Paper details how the banalisation of immigration detention is contested by international human rights mechanisms. Since the creation of the United Nations, the global human rights regime has provided a framework for the protection … Continue reading When Is Immigration Detention Lawful? The Monitoring Practices of UN Human Rights Mechanisms →

Human mobility as a resource in conflict: the case of Syria

Human movement remains the primary unit of analysis in much theorising on forced migration and humanitarian practice in conflict. Whilst movement is often portrayed as an indicator of vulnerability, sometimes even as a problem per se, I suggest thinking of mobility, taking this broader term to signify the ‘freedom to choose where to be’ (de … Continue reading Human mobility as a resource in conflict: the case of Syria →

New Europeans on the move: a preliminary review of the onward migration of refugees within the European Union

Libyan nationals in the United Kingdom: geo-political considerations and trends in asylum and return