Essays about: "immigration detention"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 19 essays containing the words immigration detention.

1. 11. The Exercise of Power in a Closed Institution - Case of a Swedish Immigration Detention Centre.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Ewa Grabowska; [2016]
   Keywords : immigration detention centre; detention officers; civil servants; administrative detention; bureaucracy; the Swedish Migration Agency; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The aim of this sociological study is to explore and to understand mechanisms of power being embedded in daily procedures of detention establishment with the focus on the case officers’ work tasks. In the study the emic approach is being used in order to understand from within power at detention. READ MORE

3. 12. Exceptional foreigners : Analysing the discourses around immigration detention in Sweden

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Annie Norin Jansson; [2015]
   Keywords : exceptionalism; state of exception; immigration detention; Sweden; criminalisation of migration; foreign subjectivities; discourse analysis;

   Abstract : Based on a discourse analysis of Swedish public investigations regarding immigration detention, this thesis examines the discourses around ‘foreigners’ therein. Rejected asylum-seekers awaiting deportation have gone from being systematically detained in prisons by the police, to instead be confined in detention centres administered by the Swedish Migration Board. READ MORE

4. 13. Australia’s securitization of boat refugees : a critical discourse analysis of the Australian Migration Act

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Johanna Hamark Kindborg; [2015]
   Keywords : Designated persons; Boat refugees; Detention center; Human Rights; Immigration; Membership; Migration Act; Security; Society; The others.; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : According to international law, under the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (CRSR), refugees have the right to seek asylum in the host country they arrive to. However, there are many democratic states today that view it as their privilege to select which refugees who have the right to enter their territory. READ MORE

5. 14. Human trafficking in the Sinai Desert : A case study of Egypt

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Ruth Ghebrai; [2015]
   Keywords : human trafficking; Sinai; Egypt; ransom; extortion; securitization; Arendt; conceptual framework;

   Abstract : Since 2009 thousands of Eritreans, as well as other, sub-Saharan migrants have become victims of human trafficking in the Sinai Peninsula. These occurrences are linked to the newly coined notion of “Sinai Trafficking” which has been labeled as a new form of human trafficking. READ MORE

6. 15. Protection of human rights in the case of immigration related detention in the EU: Between international law and international relations

   University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Lamija Muftic; [2014]
   Keywords : immigration; immigration related detention; International law; International relations; non-citizens;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to explore the relation between the extent of abidance to human rights international law provisions in regard to the detention of immigrants in the countries of EU, and the motivations for doing so, as presented in the international relations theories. The principal research question is: Why are immigrants facing problems in obtaining human rights in the context of immigration related detention? The answers are implicitly found in the answers to the underlying question: Why do states crate and obey international law? Methodologically, the problematic is approached through the theoretical analysis of International Relation theories: Realist, Institutionalism, Liberalism and Constructivism. READ MORE