COVID-19 and immigration detention in the USA: time to act

Immigration detention and health.

ike all rich nations, Australia has experienced an increase in people crossing its national borders without the documents authorising them to do so. Since 1992, Australia has had a policy of mandatory detention for these people. About a third of the people in immigration detention are asylum seekers who are requesting sanctuary under the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of ...

Submission to National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention from

Living with Uncertainty: Indefinite Immigration Detention

Immigration detention is a central tenet of the British government’s response to immigration but remains under-theorised in academia. This article uses testimonies drawn from anthropological research conducted with detainees at an Immigration Removal Centre to examine lived experiences of immigration detention and explore the relationships between detainees and the British state. It suggests th...

The health of people in Australian immigration detention centres.

OBJECTIVE To determine the health status of people in Australian immigration detention centres and the effect of time in, and reason for, detention. DESIGN, SETTING AND SUBJECTS An analysis of the health records of 720 of the 7375 people in detention in the financial year 1 July 2005-30 June 2006, with oversampling of those detained for > 3 months. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Health encounters an...

Psychological Risk and Protective Factors Related to Fear of Covid-19 During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iran

The current COVID-19 pandemic is associated with numerous psychological issues such as anxiety and distress as a result of individual, health-related, social, and economic, issues. This study aimed to assess the general population in Iran for negative impacts of the current pandemic on psychological well-being and to find possible protective and risk factors when facing such situations as the c...