Further Reference for Exhibition 2024

1899 - 1902

https://theconversation.com/concentration-camps-in-the-south-african-war-here-are-the-real-facts-112006

1905 peace time controls of aliens to 1915 32,440 people detained

https://righttoremain.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DetentionHistory.pdf

1905 - 1914

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4371457.stm

WWI 1915

https://www.history.com/news/how-the-sinking-of-lusitania-changed-wwi/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_RMS_Lusitania

1939 – 1945 WWII Britain’s Gulag

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/aug/18/uncovering-truth-british-empire-caroline-elkins-mau-mau

1968 commonwealth immigration act

https://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/notes-history-detention-centre/

Ministers see 1971 racism in 1971 Immigration Law as defensible

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/jan/01/uk.race

The Hardial Singh Case

https://caselaw.statelessness.eu/caselaw/united-kingdom-r-v-governor-durham-prison-ex-p-singh

1980s

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/articles/internationalmigrationarecenthistory/2015-01-15

1986 new visa restrictions

The Earl William Floating Detention Centre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_UK_immigration_control

11th March 1994 & 4th June

https://corporatewatch.org/the-uk-border-regime-a-brief-history-of-resistance-to-immigration-detention/

2001 Yarl's Wood IRC opens

https://corporatewatch.org/the-uk-border-regime-a-brief-history-of-resistance-to-immigration-detention/

THE 2002 YARL’S WOOD REVOLT

https://corporatewatch.org/the-uk-border-regime-a-brief-history-of-resistance-to-immigration-detention/

The 2006 Harmondsworth revolt

https://corporatewatch.org/the-uk-border-regime-a-brief-history-of-resistance-to-immigration-detention/

Deaths in IRCs and Prisons

https://www.inquest.org.uk/deaths-of-immigration-detainees

Hostile environment

https://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/notes-history-detention-centre/

2014 immigration Act

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/27/children-detention-uk-illegal-migration-bill-asylum

IMPACT OF COVID ON NUMBERS IN IRCS

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-december-2022/how-many-people-are-detained-or-returned#:~:text=Figure%202%20shows%20that%20the,765%20at%2031%20December%202022.

SELF HARM IN IRCS

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/27/self-harm-incident-nearly-every-day-in-uk-immigration-detention-data-shows

Protestors arrested 2022

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/05/detainees-at-harmondsworth-removal-centre-stage-protest-during-power-cut

Rwanda policy unlawful

https://detentionaction.org.uk/2024/01/09/supreme-court-rules-uk-rwanda-removals-agreement-to-be-unlawful/