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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Immigration detention"”.
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Closed Borders: A Comparative Analysis Between the Immigration Detention Policies of the United States and Australia
… Australia are often regarded as being tough on immigration though the immigration concerns of the two countries are vastly different. This paper compares the mandatory detention policies in these two countries in terms of their motivation and authorization, immigration target, and facilities …
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KIDS IN CAGES: THE FAMILY SEPARATION POLICY AND ITS HUMAN CONSEQUENCES
… the impacts—physical, mental, and emotional—of immigration detention on children and explores how immigration officials could use immigration resources more efficiently. It collates expert legal and medical opinions on detaining children and separating them from their families in an immigration …
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An examination of bureaucratic Home Office systems relating to mixed immigration-status families, including the use of Section 55 (Borders, Immigration and Citizenship Act, 2009): a mixed methods study
… children when their parents are detained under immigration powers. Very little is published in this field, and what is published, explores the existence and frequency of parental immigration detention in the UK. Family courts safeguard and prioritise the parental relationship, with children …
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Geographies of Containment: Logics of Enclosure in Aboriginal and Asylum Seeker Policies in Australia's Northern Territory
… to read geopolitical processes of migration and detention, sovereignty and citizenship, and settler colonialism and consider their consequences for people's everyday lives. Asylum seekers in Australia face policies of mandatory detention while they wait and hope for refugee status, and Darwin's …
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Public Law and Immigration Justice
What roles have lawyers played in the British immigration system? Have these roles made the system more just? This thesis tackles these questions by focusing on the doctrines and ideas of public law. Chapter 2 discusses 19th-century legal debates about immigration practices of the British colonies. …
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Liminal Boundaries and Vulnerabilities to Radicalisation in the Context of Securitisation of Migration
… second expression is the onshore and offshore immigration detention system in Western countries. The third manifestation of encampment is symbolic and constitutes the self or externally imposed patterns of settlement in migrant enclaves in developed and developing countries. In recent times, …
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Beyond the wire : Levinas vis-à-vis Villawood : a study of Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy as an ethical foundation for asylum seeker policy
… unwittingly becomes entangled in the Australian detention regime. This thesis provides a lens through personal visits to Villawood Detention Centre—1999–2004—for studying the interpersonal and intrapersonal experiences behind the wire. Midrashim developed through a framework of Emmanuel Levinas’s …
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The taming of a toothless tiger : INS implementation of the Flores settlement agreement
INS guidelines for the treatment of unaccompanied children are laid out in Flores v. Reno, a settlement agreement that the agency reached with a number of advocacy groups on behalf of child detainees. The following study is an attempt to assess the treatment that unaccompanied children receive …
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An Inferentially Robust Look at Two Competing Explanations for the Surge in Unauthorized Migration From Central America
… think tanks, and the agencies that work in the immigration and border enforcement realm admit poverty and violence may underlie some decisions to migrate, they instead blame lax U.S. immigration policies, incorrect perceptions of U.S. immigration policy, and the exploitation of immigration …