IDC’s Strategic Position on Alternatives to Detention

IDC uses ATD as a systems change strategy towards ending immigration detention. This means that in our advocacy, we provide a vision and roadmap towards migration governance approaches that are based on values of human rights, fairness, agency and freedom. This involves bringing about changes in different areas of migration governance through the implementation of community-centred ATD, in order to reduce detention, promote ripple effects, and progressively build systems that don’t rely on detention at all.

This paper was written for civil society organisations, grassroots groups and individuals working in advocacy, community organising, academia, law, research, policy and direct service provision, and particularly for representatives of communities directly impacted by immigration detention, who are interested in working to reduce, and ultimately end immigration detention.