The fundamental conflict between immigration detention and the right to health: an exploration of gender and vulnerability

dc.contributor.advisor Sellin, Jennifer
dc.contributor.author Kennedy, Laura
dc.date.accessioned 2023-09-29T10:05:48Z
dc.date.available 2023-09-29T10:05:48Z
dc.date.issued 2023
dc.description Second semester University: Maastricht University
dc.description.abstract Immigration detention is a global practice, fraught with human rights abuse and subject to much criticism. Punitive in nature, the detention of migrants for administrative purposes has dire consequences, primarily the failure to respect the right to health of detainees. Constructed through an androcentric lens and largely housing male migrants, the structures of immigration detention fail to consider the unique health needs of women. The pervasive themes of vulnerability, indignity, and lack of autonomy for female detainees will be explored, and the barriers to the realisation of mental, physical, and social health will be discussed. Parallels will be drawn between panopticism, biopolitics, and the legal and normative frameworks that govern immigration detention structures, and emphasis on the importance of an intersectional approach will be addressed. Ultimately, the inherently contradictory nature of immigration detention in terms of realising the right to health will be discussed, and alternatives to detention will be examined.
dc.identifier.uri https://repository.gchumanrights.org/handle/20.500.11825/2659
dc.identifier.uri http://dx.doi.org/10.25330/2579
dc.language.iso en
dc.relation.ispartofseries Global Campus Europe (EMA) theses 2022/2023
dc.subject immigrants
dc.subject detention
dc.subject right to health
dc.subject women
dc.subject gender discrimination
dc.title The fundamental conflict between immigration detention and the right to health: an exploration of gender and vulnerability
dc.type Thesis
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