ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how the global market for immigration detention operates through and with the support of the international human rights regime. It explains that the detention rights movement facilitates and at times is a central part of the development of new markets aimed at providing a humane standard of detention care. The chapter builds on recent scholarship that shows how international human rights policy and practice are imbricated in the expansion of detention. It begins by setting detention reforms within the context of neoliberalism, and provides a brief overview of the human rights frameworks that have acquired global precedence around immigration detention. The chapter explains how new forms of 'ethical capitalism' sustain detention, moving on to examine the politics of academic expertise in enacting neoliberal agendas and consolidating detention rights frameworks. The institutionalisation and industrialisation of immigration detention reforms is best set within the wider socio-economic trends of neoliberal structural adjustments.
