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Risk assessment technology in migration control: tools for more objective decision-making?

By Tim Dekkers, Maartje van der Woude & Robert Koulish Migration control has seen an influx of information technologies in order to control mobilities. The traditional means of securing borders with walls, gates and border guards are not considered to be sufficient anymore or, as is the case at the internal borders of the European Union, legislation prevents the implementation of such measures. This poses a problem. Migration is increasingly viewed as a security issue and migrants as security threats, but freedom of movement benefits trade and tourism resulting in economic growth. EU [...]

Posted by César on September 19, 2018 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: Europe, guest blogger

The Perversity of External Immigration Enforcement

Alexander Sager On March 25, 2018, Palm Sunday, the Viacrucis del Migrante [The Migrants’ Way of the Cross] set out from Tapachula, Chiapas toward Tijuana. The approximately 1,000 Central American migrants traveled together for safety, as well as to draw attention to Mexican and U.S. policies that undermine the right to asylum. The 2018 Caravan drew significantly more attention than had previous years’ efforts. Sadly, much of the attention was from the Trump administration and right-wing media. President Trump (predictably) voiced his ire through a tweet: “Mexico is doing very little, if [...]

Posted by César on June 12, 2018 on 12:30 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: border militarization, commentaries, ethics, Europe, guest blogger

Crimmigration and Race

By Allison Crennen-Dunlap “The Age of Nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish we must shake off our old prejudices and build the earth.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Human Energy 37 (1969). Writing in 1969, dissident Jesuit priest and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin envisioned a radical future toward which humanity was building—a future beyond nations and divisions in which all human beings could share as equals in their common dignity. Sadly, humanity has not lived up to Teilhard’s vision, beautiful as it was. In Race, Criminal Justice, and Migration Control (2017), [...]

Posted by César on May 22, 2018 on 12:30 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: commentaries, Europe, guest blogger, illegal entry, illegal reentry, imprisonment, local immigration policing, teaching

Abolish the ICE Prison Complex

Locking up migrants fighting to stay in the United States is permissible, the Supreme Court reiterated in February. The Court’s ruling mocks justice, but isn’t a big surprise. The federal laws under the Court’s consideration breathe life into a mean-spirited immigration law enforcement regime that holds tightly to the misguided belief that migrants pose a threat that prisons are best suited to extinguish. In Jennings v. Rodriguez, five justices overturned the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit allowing migrants detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement [...]

Posted by César on May 17, 2018 on 4:27 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: 5th Amendment, border militarization, commentaries, Due Process Clause, Europe, imprisonment, mandatory detention, U.S. Supreme Court

Jennings v. Rodriguez highlights need for detention time limits

Justine N. Stefanelli The US Supreme Court’s decision in Jennings v. Rodriguez, 583 U.S. ___ (2018) (slip opinion), denying bail hearings to thousands of detainees is a serious blow to the rule of law. Detaining categories of people without regard to their individual circumstances is an arbitrary interference with the right to liberty and, at the very least, should be accompanied by procedural safeguards. The most obvious of these is a temporal limit on immigration detention. However, US immigration law provides no maximum. The closest the law has come is the setting of a presumptively [...]

Posted by César on March 16, 2018 on 12:30 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, bond, Due Process Clause, Europe, guest blogger, habeas, imprisonment, mandatory detention, U.S. Supreme Court

Detention myopia

In Canada and the United Kingdom, migrants are sometimes confined in prison-like settings. In Malta, they’re held in converted military barracks. Like so many others, these countries have come to rely on imprisonment to enforce their immigration laws. Indeed, I recently reviewed a book that provides an excellent overview of immigration imprisonment tactics in fifteen countries. This blog’s readers know full well how pervasive this phenomenon is in the United States. With over 400,000 people confined every year by ICE, we count the world’s largest immigration prison population (without even [...]

Posted by César on May 26, 2016 on 4:00 am 1 Comment
Filed Under: border militarization, commentaries, Europe, imprisonment

Policing and humanitarianism in migration control

Every day for years on end the story repeats itself. People fleeing their homelands in search of opportunity or survival lose their lives en route. The developed world—from Australia to the United States—bemoans the lost lives. We observe moments of silence, take pity on the dead, and skewer the smugglers who profit from clandestine migration. Rarely do we look inward to ask how our own policies lead to death. In Crimes of Peace: Mediterranean Migrations at the World’s Deadliest Border (2015), anthropologist Maurizio Albahari refuses to let us sit comfortably in our condemnation of others [...]

Posted by César on May 17, 2016 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: border militarization, commentaries, Europe

Pushing Europe to protect migrant workers

By Alan Desmond As we approach the 25th anniversary of the UN International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (ICMW), Migrants Matter, a group of postgraduate students and young professionals concerned with the treatment of migrants in Europe, is calling on Dimitris Avramopoulos, the EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship, to support ratification of the ICMW by EU Member States. Adopted by the UN General Assembly on 18 December 1990, the ICMW is one of the ten core international human rights instruments. [...]

Posted by César on June 23, 2015 on 4:00 am Leave a Comment
Filed Under: Europe, guest blogger, proposed legislation

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