Learning Library: Immigration

“I think the Home Office should demonstrate much greater energy in its consideration of alternatives to detention.”

— Review into the Welfare in Detention of Vulnerable Persons: A report to the Home Office by Stephen Shaw, Janaury 2016

Reports

Gov.uk: Chapters 46 to 62: detention and removals - 11 December 2013 (opens as a PDF in a new window)
HMIP: People in prison: Immigration detainees - November 2015 (opens as a PDF in a new window)
The Shaw Review: Review into the welfare in detention of vulnerable persons - Stephen Shaw, January 2016 (opens as a PDF in a new window)
Centre for Mental Health: Immigration Removal Centres in England -A mental health needs analysis - Dr Graham Durcan, Jessica Stubbs and Dr Jed Boardman, January 2017 (opens as a PDF in a new window)
Review into the welfare in detention of vulnerable persons review: progress report - 24 July 2018 (opens as a PDF in a new window)
INQUEST: Joint Committee on Human Rights -Immigration detention inquiry - September 2018 (opens as a PDF in a new window)
Oxford Law: Quality of life in detention - Mary Bosworth and Alice Gerlach, March 2020 (opens as a PDF in a new window)
Home Office: Detention Services Order 08/2014 -death in immigration detention - August 2020 (opens as a PDF in a new window)
All Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees & the All Party Parliamentary Group on Migration, ‘ The Report of the Inquiry into the Use of Immigration Detention in the United Kingdom’ (opens as a PDF in a new window)

Research

BMC Psyciatry: The impact of immigration detention on mental health: a systematic review - 6 December 2018 (opens as a PDF in a new window)

Statistics