Immigration Detention, Risk and Human Rights

The Sovereign Bias of Crimmigration Enforcement and Detention, by Robert Koulish.- Sovereign Discomfort: Can Liberal Norms Lead to Increasing Immigration Detention? by Michael Flynn.- Immigration Detention, Risk and Human Rights in the Law of the European Union. Lessons from the Returns Directive, by Valsamis Mitsilegas.- Immigration Detention and Non-Removability before the European Court of Human Rights, by Marloes Anne Vrolijk.- Immigration Detention: An Instrument in the Fight against Illegal Immigration or a Tool for its Management? by Galina Cornelisse.- Trapped Between Administrative Detention, Imprisonment, and Freedom-in-limbo, by Charles Gosme.- Immunity from Criminal Prosecution And Consular Assistance To The Foreign Detainee According The International Human Rights Law, by Larissa Leite.- Understanding Immigration Detention in the UK and Europe, by Elspeth Guild.- Women's Immigration Detention in Greece: Gender, Control, and Capacity, by Mary Bosworth, Andriani Fili, and Sharon Pickering.- The Changing Nature of the Criminalization of Irregular Migration in Belgium since 1980, by Steven De Ridder and Maartje van der Woude.- Crimmigration Policies and the Great Recession: Analysis of the Spanish Case, by José Ángel Brandariz García.- Immigrants as Detainees: Some Reflections Based on Abyssal Thinking and Other Critical Approaches, by Katia Cardoso.- Mandatory Immigration Detention for U.S. Crimes: The Noncitizen Presumption of Dangerousness, by Mark Noferi.- Let Us In: An Argument for the Right to Visitation in U.S. Immigration Detention, by Christina M. Fialho.- Who Wants to Go to Arizona? A Brief Survey of Criminalization of Immigration Law in the U.S. Context, by Gabriel Haddad Teixeira.

Maria João Guia is a PhD (summa cum laude) in Law, Justice and Citizenship at the XXIst century at the University of Coimbra, Portugal and author of the thesis "Immigration, 'Crimmigration' and violent crime. The convicted inmates and the representations of Immigration and Crime". She is Associate Researcher at the Centre of Human Rights, at the Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra. Her most recent edited book, The Illegal Business of Human Trafficking (Springer, 2015). Maria was appointed in 2012 as a SYLFF Fellow for her leadership and organisational skills and was (until dec 2015) independent external expert of the European Commission on the area of Security, Freedom and Justice and currently director of CINETS (www.crimmigrationcontrol.com).

"This volume will be of interest to anyone concerned with the topic of immigration detention in Europe and the US. Indeed, recent developments lend a particular topicality to this issue." (Alan Desmond, Nordic Journal of Migration Research, Vol.8 (1), 2018)