Prolonged Immigration Detention That Violates Human Rights  in Japan Immigration Detention Facilities:  An Institutional Approach

Sari Anggaini; Kurniawaty Iskandar

doi:10.30641/ham.2022.13.347-368

Prolonged Immigration Detention That Violates Human Rights in Japan Immigration Detention Facilities: An Institutional Approach

Sari Anggaini, Kurniawaty Iskandar

Abstract

Recently, some cases of human rights violations in immigration detention centers across Japan have attracted worldwide attention. Those inhumanely considered cases necessitated the United Nations expressing an opinion through the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. This study found that ingrained ideologies of homogeneity in Japanese society give rise to immigration policies that tend to hinder the integration of immigrants into Japanese society. This research looks at three main areas: first, how the ideology of homogeneity led to prolonged immigration detention in Japan; second, whether immigration detention in Japan violates international human rights law; and, finally, the guarantee of human rights protection for detainees in Japan. a qualitative research method using a literature review to describe how ethnic homogeneity causes prolonged immigration detention in Japan that is against international law through an institutional frame.

Keywords

deportation; detention; ethnic homogeneity; human rights; institutional approach

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.30641/ham.2022.13.347-368