Detention Landscapes: Violence in Immigration Detention Centres
About this episode
This episode explores the realities of immigration detention in Europe, focusing on individual experiences and the political landscape surrounding the system.
In this episode we discuss the realities of immigration detention across Europe, from the individual experiencing detention to the broader politics shaping the system. What is immigration detention? The Migration Observatory explains in a recent policy briefing, ‘In the UK, immigration detention refers to the Home Office practice of detaining foreign nationals for the purposes of resolving their immigration statuses. Most countries use immigration detention. When people are detained, they are typically held in prison like conditions’. But what does detention actually mean for those who experience it? And how do broader political forces shape the system? Recorded earlier last year, we explore these important questions in our latest episode of the Migration Oxford podcast, and examine immigration detention through multiple lenses: · The individual human experience: We hear from Gee Manoharan, Co-Director of Policy and Influencing at AVID (Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees), about his harrowing experience of detention in the UK. · The importance of research: While Dr Andriani Fili, Wellcome Trust Research Fellow and Co-Director of Border Criminologies at the…
People in this episode
Guests: Gee Manoharan, Dr Andriani Fili, Dr Lena Karamanidou
Topics covered
- immigration detention
- human rights
- politics of immigration
- individual experiences
- research in detention
- European immigration policies
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: AVID (Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees), Wellcome Trust, University of Oxford
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