Detention

Tate Modern’s new space, The Tanks, is dedicated to ‘Live Art’ and opened this summer with a programme of events entitled ‘Art in Action’. The suggestion is not only that the performances and events will be participatory and reflexive but that they might elicit an act of engagement from the audience that extends beyond their visit. This is certainly the aim of Cuban artist Tania Bruguera’s contribution, which begins in earnest before you have even set foot in the exhibition.

"The detention policy criminalises migrants and is the main cause for racism in Malta," Osman Dicko from the Migrants' Network for Equality said. During a press conference held this afternoon in Valletta, Dicko together with a number of representatives from other NGOs announced a Walk Against Institutional Racism to be held on Wednesday at 5pm in Valletta.

This new report by the Rutgers School of Law–Newark Immigrant Rights Clinic (IRC) and the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Immigrant Rights Program, examines the various mechanisms employed by Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE)—including in-person reporting requirements and electronic (or ankle) monitoring—to supervise immigrants who are not in detention. For the thousands of participants in ATD programs—many of whom have been deemed neither a flight risk nor a danger to the community—the programs “can be both liberating and debilitating,” the report finds.

Every day in the Evros region at the Greek-Turkish Border, tens of children are locked up simply because they do not hold the right documentation. Many of these children are unaccompanied minors. Immigration detention has a devastating effect on children’s physical, emotional and psychological development and must be stopped. The Greek Council for Refugees (GCR) has release a report about the Special Holding Facility for Illegal Migrants “Fylakio” in the border area.