Jerome Phelps is Head of Advocacy at Debt Justice (formerly Jubilee Debt Campaign), where he works on debt and climate justice for the global south. He previously worked for 18 years on migrant rights, including as Director of Detention Action and International Detention Coalition. He tweets @JeromeGPhelps
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Publicado no/na: 50.50After the fast track: what next for the detention of asylum seekers?UK courts have ruled the routine detention of asylum seekers undergoing accelerated claims to be ‘systemically...
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Publicado no/na: 50.50Interrupting the implacable: fighting the Detained Fast TrackThe UK Court of Appeal will hear an appeal this week over the lawfulness of automatically detaining asylum seekers...
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Publicado no/na: Shine A LightA crisis of harm in immigration detentionA young Guinean woman has become the sixth victim in three years of ‘inhuman and degrading treatment’ in UK...
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Publicado no/na: 50.50The lonely death of Jimmy Mubenga
The man shouting for help was a deportee, a figure hopelessly removed from the mundane normality of international...
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Publicado no/na: Shine A LightIs there an alternative to locking up migrants in the UK?If detention is a tool of war on irregular migration, then the damage on both sides is severe. But this war is not...
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Publicado no/na: Shine A LightFast track to despair
In the UK, people lose their liberty simply for claiming asylum. On the 60th anniversary of the Refugee Convention,...