Book chapter
Detention of asylum seekers en masse: immigration detention in the United States
Immigration Detention, pp 83-92
2015
Abstract
This chapter examines the policy, practice, and human impact of immigration detention for asylum seekers, refugees, and stateless people who are at high risk of treatment as irregular migrants. This treatment may include arrest, detention, punishment for immigration offences and deportation. Over the past decade, the Malaysian government has granted people who have registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) exception from such treatment. It also explains that the practice of immigration detention in Malaysia does not adhere to international human rights law, guidelines, and principles on detention. Malaysia places strict limits on judicial review of immigration decisions, including those related to detention. Conditions of detention in some immigration detention centres (IDCs) amount to cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment. From the mid-1970s until the mid-1990s, it hosted large numbers of Indochinese refugees in closed camps, most of whom were subsequently resettled and repatriated. It also provides for the removal of 'illegal immigrants' and people unlawfully remaining in Malaysia.
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- Title
- Detention of asylum seekers en masse: immigration detention in the United States
- Creators
- Anil Kalhan - Thomas R. Kline School of Law (2014-)
- Contributors
- Amy Nethery (Editor)Stephanie Silverman (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Immigration Detention, pp 83-92
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Thomas R. Kline School of Law
- Other Identifier
- 991019173954904721