Oxford LibGuides: People on the move: laws & HR responses: Detention

Migration related detention

ICCPR: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Free resource. On website of OHCHR read online or download pdf. EIF 23 March 1976, except art.; 28 March 1979 for the provisions of article 41 (Human Rights Committee).
International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
Free resource. Read online or download pdf EIF 1 July 2003
UK Border Agency Staff Agency Guidance on Detention and Removals
Free resource. Kept up to date by the Agency.
OHCHR: Committee on Migrant Workers
Section of official website of Commitee of UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights.
AI's Migration-Related Detention: A research guide on human rights standards relevant to the detention of migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees
Free resource. Amnesty International's 2007 guide
Global detention project
"The Global Detention Project (GDP) is an inter-disciplinary research initiative that investigates the role detention plays in states’ responses to global migration, with a special focus on the policies and physical infrastructures of detention. The project is based at the Graduate Institute’s Programme for the Study of Global Migration and has received financial support from the Open Society Foundations, Zennstrom Philanthropies, the Swiss Network for International Studies, and the Geneva International Academic Network."
International detention coalition
The International Detention Coalition (IDC) is a not for profit network organisation based in Melbourne, Australia with a membership base of 300 non-governmental organisations, faith-based groups, academics, practitioners and individuals working in 50 countries globally. Coalition members research, advocate and provide direct services to and on behalf of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants. The IDC is funded by the generous support of philanthropic organisations and individuals worldwide.

Texts on topic

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Alien detention centers
Detention of persons
Illegal aliens -- Services for
Refugees -- Services for

Judicial Review of Immigration Detention in the UK, US and EU by Justine N. Stefanelli
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link.
ISBN: 9781509930456
Publication Date: 2020
Detain and Punish : Haitian refugees and the rise of the world's largest immigration detention by Carl Lindskoog
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link.
ISBN: 9781683400400
Publication Date: 2018-08-14
Immigration Detention by Daniel Wilsher
Call Number: Internat 565 W746.2a
ISBN: 1107005760
Publication Date: 2011
Holders of an Oxford SSO can also read this online via title link.
Immigration Detention, Risk and Human Rights by Maria João Guia (Editor); Robert Koulish (Editor); Valsamis Mitsilegas (Editor)
Call Number: Internat 570 G943a
ISBN: 3319246887
Publication Date: 2016
Unravelling anomaly : detention, discrimination and the protection needs of stateless persons. by De Chickera, Amal ; Equal Rights Trust
Call Number: Internat 565 D293a
ISBN: 0956071732
Publication Date: 2010
The Law of Consular Access by John Quigley; William J. Aceves; Adele Shank; John B. Quigley; William J. Aceves; S. Adele Shank
Call Number: Internat 555 Q6.5a
ISBN: 0415483271
Publication Date: 2009

Domestic Response

Reports of inspections of the UK's
immigration holding/removal/detention centres

Paper copies are kept in the Official Papers Collection on the Floor 0 of the Bodleian Law Library: shelf mark O.GB. per. 20. To find them collectively use the SOLO subject search: Alien detention centers. They are also individually catalogued in SOLO

HMIP's Reports on Immigration removal centre inspections
Free resource. Individual centre reports available to download (pdfs)
UK Border Agency: Immigration removal centres web pages
Official pages.

Detention under the Immigration Acts: law and practice by Rory Dunlop; Graham Denholm; Lisa Giovannetti
Call Number: KM177.35.DEN 2015
ISBN: 0198714130
Publication Date: 2015
The Law and Practice of Expulsion and Exclusion from the United Kingdom by Eric Fripp (Editor); Rowena Moffatt (Associate Editor); Ellis Wilford (Associate Editor); Hope of Craighead (Foreword by)
Call Number: KM177.5.FRI 2015
ISBN: 1849465894
Publication Date: 2015
Holders of an Oxford SSO can also read this online via title link.