[expand title=”General reports“]
Dr Anna Rowlands for JRS UK (2019) For our welfare and not for our harm: a faith-based report on the experience of the refugee and refugee support community at JRS UK 2017–2019
BID (2019) “Nothing good comes from detention”: Voices from detention
Home Affairs Committee (2019) Immigration detention
Joint Committee on Human Rights (2019) Immigration detention
Joint Committee on Human Rights (2018) Windrush generation detention (you can also see the Government’s response and the National Audit Office’s report on the Handling of the Windrush situation)
Verita (2018) Independent investigation into concerns about Brook House immigration removal centre
House of Commons Library (2018) Immigration detention in the UK: an overview
Stephen Shaw (2018) Assessment of government progress in implementing the report on the welfare in detention of vulnerable persons (the Home Secretary’s response is available here and here)
British Red Cross (2018) Never truly free: The humanitarian impact of the UK immigration detention system
Amnesty International (2017) A matter of routine: The use of immigration detention in the UK
Stephen Shaw (2016) Review into the welfare in detention of vulnerable persons (the Minister for Immigration’s response is available here)
Migration Observatory (2016) Briefing: Immigration detention in the UK
APPG on Refugees and APPG on Migration (2015) Report of the Parliamentary Inquiry into the Use of Immigration Detention in the United Kingdom
House of Commons Library Briefing Paper (2015) Immigration detention: An overview
Detention Action (2014) The State of Detention: Immigration detention in the UK in 2014
Detention Action, Flemish Refugee Action, France Terre d’Asile, Menedek and the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (2014) Point of no return: The futile detention of unreturnable migrants
Detention Action (2010) No release no return no reason: Challenging indefinite detention
BID (2009) Out of sight, out of mind: Experiences of immigration detention in the UK
Detention Action (2009) Detained lives: The real cost of indefinite immigration detention
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After Exploitation (2019) Supported or deported? Understanding the deportation and detention data held on human trafficking and slavery
Women for Refugee Women (2019) “From one hell to another” The detention of Chinese women who have been trafficked to the UK
JRS UK (2018) Survivors of Trafficking in Immigration Detention
BID (2018) Adults at Risk: The ongoing struggle for vulnerable adults in detention
Medical Justice (2018) Putting adults at risk: A guide to understanding the Home Office’s “Adults at Risk” policy and its history
British Medical Association (2017) Locked up, locked out: Health and human rights in immigration detention
Centre for Mental Health (2017) Immigration Removal Centres in England: A mental health needs analysis
Detention Action (2017) Trafficked into detention: How victims of trafficking are missed in detention
European Network on Statelessness (2016) Protecting stateless persons from arbitrary detention in the UK
Medical Justice (2016) Death in immigration detention: 2000-2015
UKLGIG and Stonewall (2016) No safe refuge: Experiences of LGBT asylum seekers in detention
Detention Forum, AVID and Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group (2015) Rethinking ‘vulnerability’ in detention: A crisis of harm
Healthwatch and Medical Justice (2014) Healthwatch and immigration removal centres: Asylum seekers in detention centres
Medical Justice (2013) Mental Health in Immigration Detention Working Group: Initial report
AVID, BID and The Detention Forum (2012) Positive duty of care? The mental health crisis in immigration detention
Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group (2012) A prison in the mind: The mental health implications of detention in Brook House Immigration Removal Centre
Medical Justice (2012) The second torture: The immigration detention of torture victims
Medical Justice (2011) Denied and detained: The clinical care of people living with HIV in immigration detention
JRS Europe (2010) Becoming vulnerable in detention
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Bar Council (2017) Injustice in immigration detention: Perspectives from legal professionals
The Open University (2016) Timeline: The criminalisation of asylum
BID (2015) Legal advice survey of immigration detainees across the UK detention estate (Summary: Surveys 1-10) (BID’s biannual surveys are also available)
Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group (2015) Cutting justice: The impacts of the legal aid cuts for people detained in Brook House and Tinsley House IRCs
Medical Justice (2015) A secret punishment: The misuse of segregation in immigration detention
Medical Justice (2014) Biased and unjust: The immigration detention complaints process
Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law (2013) Immigration Detention and the Rule of Law: Safeguarding Principles
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BID (2018) Briefing: Accommodation post-detention
BID (2014) No place to go: Delays in the Home Office provision of S4(1) (c) bail accommodation.
Bail Observation Project (2013) Still a travesty: Justice in immigration bail hearings
BID (2012) The liberty deficit: Long-term detention and bail decision-making
Bail Observation Project (2011): Immigration bail hearings: A travesty of justice? Observations from the public gallery
BID (2010) A nice judge on a good day: Immigration bail and the right to liberty
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[expand title=”Immigration detention in prisons“]
BID (2017) Mind the gap: Immigration advice for detainees in prisons
HM Chief Inspector of Prisons (2015) People in prison: Immigration detainees
Lucy Slade (2015) Foreign National Prisoners: best practice in prison and resettlement
BID (2014) Denial of justice: The hidden use of UK prisons for immigration detention
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Institute for Voluntary Action Research (2017) Detained Fast Track litigation case study: Detention Action, using the law for social change
Detention Action (2013) Briefing: The Detained Fast Track
Detention Action (2011) Fast track to despair: The unnecessary detention of asylum seekers
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Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group (2017) Don’t dump me in a foreign land: Immigration detention and young arrivers
Women for Refugee Women (2017) We are still here: The continued detention of women seeking asylum in Yarl’s Wood
BID (2015) Rough justice: Children and families affected by the 2013 legal aid cuts
Women for Refugee Women (2015) I am human: Refugee women experiences of detention in the UK
Women for Refugee Women (2014) Detained: Women asylum seekers locked up in the UK
BID (2013) Fractured Childhoods: The separation of families by immigration detention
BID (2013) Last resort or first resort? Immigration detention of children in the UK
Medical Justice (2013) Expecting Change: The case to end the Immigration Detention of Pregnant Women
Medical Justice (2010) State sponsored cruelty: Children in immigration detention
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[expand title=”Alternatives to detention“]
Eiri Ohtani (2018) (Commissioned by European Programme for Integration and Migration) Alternatives to detention – from theory to practice: Evaluation of three engagement-based alternative to immigration detention pilot projects in Bulgaria, Cyprus and Poland
Council of Europe Steering Committee on Human Rights (2018) Analysis of the legal and practical aspects of effective alternatives to detention in the context of migration
Women for Refugee Women (2017) The way ahead: An asylum system without detention
Detention Action (2016) Without detention: Opportunities for alternatives
UNHCR (2016) Progress under the global strategy – beyond detention 2014-2019: UK (other UNHCR alternative to detention reports can be found online here)
UNHCR (2015) Global strategy – beyond detention 2014-2019: UK national action plan
Internation Detention Coalition (2015) There are alternatives: A handbook for preventing unnecessary immigration detention
Forced Migration Review (2013) Special Edition: Detention, alternatives to detention and deportation
Matrix Evidence (2012) An economic analysis of alternatives to long-term detention
JRS Europe (2011) From deprivation to liberty: Alternatives to detention in Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom
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[expand title=”Parliamentary briefings“]
Various organisations including BID, Detention Action, GDWG, Liberty, Medical Justice, the Refugee Council, UKLGIG and Women for Refugee Women produce regular submissions and parliamentary briefings, and AVID provides a comprehensive summary of recent events.
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