This International Migrants' Day post was written for Unlocking Detention by Melanie Griffiths. Melanie is an ESRC Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Bristol. Her project, entitled Detention, Deportability and the Family: Migrant Men's Negotiations of the [...]
This piece by Eiri Ohtani was first published on openDemocracy on 15 December 2014, as part of the Unlocking Detention series. The first ever parliamentary inquiry into immigration detention in the UK listened to the voices of 'experts-by-experience' [...]
12 December 2014 The Detention Forum would like to invite like-minded groups and organisations who want to campaign together for a time limit on immigration detention to our national strategy day on 20 February 2015. The Strategy Day [...]
This post was written by Detention Forum Scotland, in response to the Detention Forum's question of 'what are your hopes for the detention inquiry in light of the 'NO' vote in the Scottish Independence Referendum?' This post originally [...]
By Kate Alexander, coordinator of Scottish Detainee Visitors (a member of the Detention Forum). This article originally appeared in Open Democracy's Unlocked series. Scotland may have a different relationship with immigration from the rest of the UK, but [...]
Joe is an asylum-seeker from East Africa. He has been in Colnbrook IRC for four months. In this interview for the 'Unlocking Detention' twitter-tour, he talks to Detention Action's Ben du Preez about life inside Colnbrook, the emotional [...]
This piece by Saskia Garner was first published by openDemocracy on 1st December 2014. Saskia works at Refugee Action as Policy Manager. The adverse effects of being detained in an immigration removal centre harm possibilities for reintegration in [...]
This piece by Ben du Preez was first published by openDemocracy on 1st December 2014. Ben works at Detention Action and is a member of the Detention Forum Communications Working Group. The invisibility of immigration detention centres and [...]
Detention Action’s Shashika Heiyantuduwa describes their work with women in Colnbrook detention centre. This piece was originally published on the Detention Action website on 12 August 2012. Detention Action is a member of the Detention Forum. [In 2012] [...]