Governments around the world are increasingly using detention as a migration management tool, with refugees, asylum seekers and migrants detained for prolonged periods.
However, there are humane and cost effective mechanisms that prevent unnecessary and damaging detention and that ensure detention is only ever used as a last resort.
The International Detention Coalition, IDC, has identified good practices from around the world and compiled them in a handbook, while also introducing a new framework CAP, the Community Assessment and Placement model.
A new framework
The Community Assesment and Placement framework combines mechanisms to prevent unnecessary detention with strategies for effective and humane case resolution in the community. CAP ensures governments have a clear understanding of the diversity within the population of asylum seekers and irregular migrants in order to make informed decisions on placement, support and management.
The CAP framework reduces the financial and human cost of immigration detention and avoids wrongful and unnecessary detention. It maximises management and case resolution in the community.
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