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BRIEFING - Immigration Detention in the UK www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk

31 Oct 2022

UK PAGE 2 BRIEFING: Immigration Detention in the UK Understanding the policy Immigration detention refers to the Home Office practice of detaining foreign nationals for the purposes of resolving their immigration statuses. [...] This is around three times the size of the total detained population at the end of June 2020 (698, with 368 in prisons) at the height of the pandemic and comparable to pre-pandemic levels at the end of September 2019 (1,826). [...] UK PAGE 11 BRIEFING: Immigration Detention in the UK Figure 6 In 2021, 86% of people leaving immigration detention were released on bail – higher than usual, due in part to the Home Office detaining people arriving in Dover for short periods before releasing them due to an asylum claim Over the last decade, there has been a long-term fall in the share of people leaving immigration detention to be. [...] The report of the inquiry into the use of immigration detention in the United Kingdom. [...] BRIEFING: Immigration Detention in the UK The Migration Observatory Based at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford, the Migration Observatory provides independent, authoritative, evidence-based analysi.
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