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IOM’s Immigration Detention Practices and Policies: Human Rights, Positive Obligations and Humanitarian Duties

  • This chapter analyses IOM’s practices and policies on immigration detention from the 1990s to date, spanning a period of significant change in its approaches to detention. The chapter first distills pertinent international human rights law (IHRL) on migration-related detention, and then examines IOM’s normative statements concerning detention. It shows that while IOM generally emphasises international legal standards, it also tends to stress states’ ‘prerogative’ to detain, frame alternatives to detention (ATDs) as a desirable option rather than a legal obligation, and weave an operational role for itself, notably through assisted voluntary returns (AVRs). The chapter then interrogates IOM’s involvement in detention through four case studies. These reveal not only IOM’s changing role regarding detention, but its enduring part in a global system whereby powerful states and regions seek to contain protection seekers ‘elsewhere.’ The chapter concludes that, without constitutional and institutional change to ensure it meets its positive human rights obligations, and deeper critical reflection on its humanitarian duties, IOM’s practice risks expanding and legitimating detention.

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Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Author(s):Angela Sherwood, Isabelle Lemay, Cathryn Costello
Editor(s):Megan Bradley, Cathryn Costello, Angela Sherwood
Parent Title (English):IOM Unbound?: Obligations and Accountability of the International Organization for Migration in an Era of Expansion
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Publication year:2023
Publishing Institution:Hertie School
First Page:360
Last Page:396
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009184175.016
ISBN:9781009184175
Release Date:2024/06/26
AY 22/23:AY 22/23
Hertie School Research:Centre for Fundamental Rights
Licence of document (German):Metadaten / metadata
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