Challenging Immigration Detention

Edited by Michael J. Flynn, Global Detention Project, Switzerland and Matthew B. Flynn, Georgia Southern University, US

• Contents:Introduction - The Immigration Detention Puzzle in Interdisciplinary PerspectiveMichael J. Flynn and Matthew B. Flynn1. Waging Accountability: Why Investigative Journalism Is Both Necessary and Insufficient to Transforming Immigration Detention Nina Bernstein 2. Women and Children First: An Inside Look at the Challenges to Reforming Family Detention in the United States Dora Schriro 3. Immigration Detention and Penal Power: A Criminological PerspectiveMary Bosworth4. Whither Presumption of Liberty? Constitutional Law and Immigration DetentionDaniel Wilsher5. Inspecting Immigration Detention: Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of PrisonsHindpal Singh Bhui6. Turning Detention Centers Inside Out: The Infiltrations of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance in Sociological PerspectiveClaudia Muñoz and Michael P. Young7. Global Advocacy: Civil Society Engagement of Government on Alternatives to Immigration DetentionGrant Mitchell8. Geographical Perspectives on Detention: Spatial Control and Its ContestationDeirdre Conlon, Nancy Hiemstra and Alison Mountz9. The Economy of Detainability: Theorizing Immigration Detention Nicholas de Genova 10. Capitalism and Immigration Control: What Political Economy Reveals about the Global Spread of DetentionMatthew B. Flynn11. Mental Health Care in an Invalidating Environment: The Case of Immigration Detention in AustraliaStephen Brooker, Steve Albert, Peter Young and Zachary Steel12. Detention and Transnational Law in the European Union: Constitutional Protection between Complementarity and InconsistencyGalina Cornelisse13. Back to Basics? The Limited Use of Immigration Detention in South America. An interpretation based on International Human Rights Treaties and PrinciplesPablo Ceriani Cernades14. Immigration detention under international human rights law: The legal framework and the litmus test of human rights treaty bodies monitoringMariette Grange and Izabella Majcher 15. Conclusion: The Many Sides to Challenging Immigration Detention Michael J. FlynnIndex

'This is an excellent book on the highly topical subject of immigration detention. The contributors are experts in the field and their work together creates impressive new knowledge.' --Elspeth Guild, Queen Mary University of London, UK'The resort to immigration detention of asylum seekers and migrants is a global phenomenon that breaches fundamental human rights. In Challenging Immigration Detention the authors examine the impact on families and their children held in detention in the United States, Australia, the European Union and South America. This collation of research is an invaluable tool in responding to the growing movement of peoples across national borders in search of safety and a better life.'--Gillian Triggs, Australian Human Rights Commission