Noun
- the act of detaining.
- the state of being detained.
- maintenance of a person in custody or confinement,especially while awaiting a court decision.
- the withholding of what belongs to or is claimed by another.
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- A detaining or being detained.
- a) A custody or confinement, esp. of a suspect awaiting trial
b) (as modifier): a detention order
- A form of punishment in which a pupil is detained after school
Collins Concise Dictionary Plus. William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1989. Glasgow, 342
- (n.) Confinement; restraint; custody.
- (n.) The state of being detained (stopped or hindered); delay from necessity.
- (n.) The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding
Thinkexist.com http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/detention Accessed 15/03/2012
Synonyms: custody, hold
The term used in a sentence:
The number of asylum seeker deaths in detention centres has increased since the new legislation was passed.
“Migration-related detention is the practice of detaining—typically on administrative (as opposed to criminal) grounds—asylum seekers and irregular immigrants until they can be deported, their identities established, or their claims adjudicated. Because many national legal systems do not have clear rules for administrative detention, migration detainees often face legal uncertainties, including lack of access to the outside world, limited possibilities of challenging detention through the courts, and/or absence of limitations on the duration of detention.”
Kalhan, Anil. 2010. “Rethinking Immigration Detention”. Columbia Law Review Sidebar110: 42-58
Showler, Peter. 2010. “Bill C-31: A Big New Refugee Bill but The Same Old Debate”. Maytree conversations. http://maytree.com/blog/2012/02/bill-c-31-a-big-new-refugee-bill-but-the-same-old-debate/
McGrath, Susan. 2012. “Refugee policies should be based on fact, not fiction: Academic research suggests detaining asylum claimants is expensive, harmful to claimants, and does not deter.” Embassy Magazine, March 29, 2012. http://www.embassymag.ca/page/view/refugeepolicy-03-14-2012.
Collins Concise Dictionary Plus. William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1989. Glasgow, 342
Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/detention?s=t Accessed 15/03/2012
Global Detention Project. http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/about/about-the-project.html Accessed 29/03/2012
Thinkexist.com http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/detention Accessed 15/03/2012
Other related words (may be concepts):
- entrenched inequality
- securitization of migration
- state responses