COVID-19 Impacts on Immigration Detention: Global Responses

The International Detention Coalition (IDC) and the Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative (HADRI) have collaborated to produce an important new report on COVID-19 Impacts on Immigration Detention: Global Responses.

The report tracks the how the pandemic has impacted individuals in detention and changed global detention policy. In some locations, according to the contributions in the report, the pandemic has strengthened the rights of noncitizens held in detention. However, in other locations, there has been an increase in punitive treatment of and discrimination against refugee, undocumented migrant, and stateless communities.

Contributions to the volume include countries all around the world, including Spain, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Tunisia, and many more.

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