#cedars

#Unlocked: a Twitter tour of the UK’s detention estate

In collaboration with other members of the Detention Forum, over the next few months Detention Action will be taking part in ‘Unlocking Detention’ – a Twitter tour of the UK’s detention estate. Digitally visiting a different site of detention each week, we will be ‘unlocking’ the gates of those hidden IRCs, short-term holding facilities and prisons, were people are detained without time-limit, for months, sometimes years.

The tour will ‘unlock’ the gates of these places of detention so we can have a hard look at the cruel reality for those inside.

This is a really exciting new awareness raising initiative but as well as re-tweeting our material during the tour (@DetentionAction or @DetentionForum) we also want you to take part too.

If you have direct experience of detention, are supporting or working with people in detention, or have anything you want to say about detention, then get in touch! Do you have any reports, photos, artworks or articles you want to share during the tour? Are you a Detention Action volunteer? Do you remember your first visit to a detention centre? We want to hear your reflections!

If so, don’t hasten to contact ben@detentionaction.org.uk or detentionforum@gmail.com to find out more or to send content over. For more information, you can visit www.unlocked.org.uk, which will go live in September. The schedule and suggested hashtags for the #Unlocked tour can be seen below:
WEEK WHICH CENTRE? SUGGESTED HASHTAGS
14 Sep to 20 Sep People held in prisons as immigration detainees #prisondetainees
21 Sep to 27 Sep Short Term Holding Facilities #sthf
28 Sep to 4 Oct Haslar #haslar
5 Oct to 11 Oct Campsfield #campsfield
12 Oct to 18 Oct Brook House #brookhouse
19 Oct to 25 Oct Morton Hall #mortonhall
26 Oct to 1 Nov Harmondsworth #harmondsworth
2 Nov to 8 Nov Dover #dover
9 Nov to 15 Nov Cedars #cedars
16 Nov to 22 Nov Yarl’s Wood #yarlswood
23 Nov to 29 Nov Tinsley #tinsley
30 Nov to 6 Dec Colnbrook #colnbrook
7 Dec to 13 Dec Dungavel #dungavel
14 Dec to 20 Dec Summary Week #detention #unlocked

▻http://detentionaction.org.uk/unlocked-a-twitter-tour-of-the-uks-detention-estate

#détention #détention_administrative #rétention #UK #Angleterre #visite_guidée #centre_de_détention #migration #asile #réfugiés
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The #business of child detention: charitable co-option, migrant advocacy and activist outrage

In 2010 the British government announced that the outrage of child detention for immigration purposes was to end. Simultaneously, however, it commissioned the opening of a new family detention centre called #CEDARS. An acronym for Compassion, Empathy, Dignity, Approachability, Respect and Support, CEDARS is run under novel governance arrangements by the Home Office, private security company #G4S and the children’s charity Barnardo’s. This article draws on focus group research with migrant advocacy groups, to examine the ways in which Barnardo’s’ role within CEDARS is variously imagined as mitigating and/or legitimating the use of detention as a border control mechanism. In particular we ask: what are the consequences of the co-option of charities and voluntary organisations within the immigration detention market? Has the neoliberal trend towards the ‘professionalisation of dissent’ diminished political opposition to immigration detention in Britain and the wider world?1 Has humanitarian activism on behalf of migrants (unintentionally) contributed to the exponential growth of for-profit migrant detention markets?

▻http://rac.sagepub.com/content/56/1/3.abstract

#UK #Angleterre #enfant #mineur #détention #détention_administrative #rétention #charité #activisme #activisme_humanitaire #marché