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Putting the incarceration business on trial : The dehumanization of racist policies and for-profit prisons

Posted on 29 August 202029 August 2020 by Celestine Schorlemer

Raoul Walawalker pleads to bring the prison-industrial complex and growth of for-profit migrant detention centres to an end.

Pandemic as revelation: what does it tell us about people on the move?

Posted on 9 July 202029 August 2020 by UAI

Anthropologist Alessandro Monsutti and UAI co-founder Antonio Donini note that the pandemic seems to have produced new regimes of “unfreedom”.

The end of asylum?

Posted on 2 July 202029 August 2020 by Jeff Crisp

In memory of Mona Mahmoud, Jeff Crisp addresses the erosion of the global right to asylum in the context of the measures against the COVID19 pandemic.

In Yemen, a deadly concoction of arms sales, conflict and Covid-19 – The Interpreter

Posted on 12 June 202029 August 2020 by UAI

This short read highlights various contradictions in UN Security Council decision-making on Yemen where the spread of Covid-19 continues unimpeded.

Covid-19 – Notes on migrants, an ICMHD health policy contribution

Posted on 15 May 202030 August 2020 by UAI

Like all viral infections, Covid-19 is particularly dangerous for people in vulnerable settings including uprooted people like refugees and asylum seekers.

Update UK – May 2020

Posted on 3 May 20204 May 2020 by UAI

Ms Mona Mustapha Mahmoud It is with profound sadness that UAI in the UK announces the death, on 11 April

Could COVID-19 Upend International Asylum Norms?

Posted on 27 April 202030 August 2020 by UAI

States should not be allowed to use Covid-19 emergency policies as a pretext to further weaken freedom of movement and asylum and protection systems.

Where is humanity? The human cost of detaining asylum-seekers

Posted on 20 April 202021 April 2020 by UAI

An interview with Avril Loveless, Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group (GDWG) UAI: Avril, could you tell us what you do at

Post-pandemic change? Humanitarian action and multilateralism in transnational times

Posted on 20 April 202030 August 2020 by Antonio Donini

A pandemic turns our world upside down. The multilateral institutions of nation states are powerless in the face of Coronavirus and unregulated capitalism.

First, Save Lives

Posted on 20 April 202020 April 2020 by UAI

In solidarity with refugees and migrants in the time of Covid 19, UAI has added its name to the Civil