The COVID-19 pandemic has yet again rendered visible the harmful and obsolete nature of migration detention.
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Annika Lindberg is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bern who works on border, detention and deportation regimes.
The COVID-19 pandemic has yet again rendered visible the harmful and obsolete nature of migration detention.