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7 Legal Issues J. 23 (2019)
Human Rights in a Hostile Environment: Can International Human Rights Law Effectively Constrain Immigration Detention in the United Kingdom

handle is hein.journals/uklwetrew7 and id is 148 raw text is: Human Rights in a Hostile Environment: Can International Human Rights Law Effectively Constrain Immigration Detention in the United Kingdom? Sarah Crowe' SOAS Summary. The United Kingdom's practice of immigration detention has been described as a 'dark stain' on its human rights record. A number of aspects of the UK's detention practice engage fundamental human rights, including the practice of indefinite and prolonged detention, the lesser procedural safeguards afforded to detainees and the deten- tion of particularly vulnerable persons. This paper evaluates the utility of international human rights law as a tool of con- straining these harmful detention practices. In exposing the limits of international human rights law in protecting the rights of immigration detainees, it is concluded that while claims of territorial sovereignty remain unchallenged and 'othering' of migrants continues, international human rights law will struggle to constrain-let alone abolish-immigra- tion detention. Introduction The United Kingdom's practice of immigration detention has been de- scribed as a 'dark stain' on its human rights record.2 Immigration deten- tion involves the deprivation of liberty for administrative purposes, viewed by the United Kingdom (UK) government to be '...in the interests 1 Email: sarah.crowe121@gmail.com 2 Liberty, 'Liberty's response to the draft Home Office DSO on Removal from Association and Temporary Confinement'August 2016 at: https:/ www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/sites/ def ault/files/ Liberty's%20Response%20to%20the%20D SO%20on%2ORemoval%20fro m%20Association%20and%20Temporary%20Confinement.pdf

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