Further Reference for Exhibition 2024
1899 - 1902
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
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
2001 Yarl's Wood IRC opens
THE 2002 YARL’S WOOD REVOLT
The 2006 Harmondsworth revolt
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
IMPACT OF COVID ON NUMBERS IN IRCS
SELF HARM IN IRCS
Protestors arrested 2022
Rwanda policy unlawful