Dover week…
The Unlocking Detention team looks back on the week they visited Dover detention centre in Kent. The Dover week was a busy week like other weeks, but this time with the Detention Inquiry's second evidence session taking place on [...]
Psychological weapons used against detainees
This blog post was written by Abdelhay Tali, who has experienced immigration detention, and originally appeared on his blog. This is a thorny issue, through time and the acquisition of experiences; people learned that it is not necessary to [...]
Not a minor offence: The unlawful detention of unaccompanied children
This piece by Judith Dennis was first published by openDemocracy on 3 November 2014. Judith is Policy Manager at the Refugee Council. Despite pledging to end child detention for immigration purposes in 2010, the UK Government is still [...]
Looking beyond the border in Dover
By Fraser from Samphire. Samphire are a member of the Detention Forum. Dover Immigration Removal Centre stands above the town of Dover on its Western Heights, holding around 400 detainees. I work for Samphire, a charity in the [...]
“As the weeks pass their demeanour changes”
Refugee Action are members of the Detention Forum and used to provide advice about assisted return to people in detention, before the Home Office withdrew the contract. These are some of the experiences of one of their caseworkers. [...]