#it’s about like. inhumane treatment of prisoners in the past and the imposition of the protestant work ethic on people working

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just saw someone call horrorstör by grady hendrix “cozy horror” i’m sorry but in what world. you have to be so removed from the reality of what working retail is like to be like hehe cozy horror because it takes place in haunted ikea :) also like. was it so super cozy when that girl gets possessed and starts choking on her own snot lol like some of the shit he describes in this book is so vile so please explain to me what part of the book is cozy

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“While geographical restrictions on the residence of migrants subject to migration controls and asylum determination proceedings are not per se unlawful, the reality on the Greek islands is that thousands of migrants and asylum seekers are being trapped automatically and indefinitely, in hugely substandard conditions, in the pursuit of returns to Turkey that would be unlawful. This is manifestly unacceptable” - A Blueprint for despair: Human rights impact of the EU-Turkey deal. Amnesty International. February 2017.

“Serbia still does not have an adequate legal framework providing sufficient procedural guarantees against refoulement in forced return procedures, which gives rise to credible fears that the authorities are engaged in practice which violates international law. It is clear that newly introduced practice established suitable ground for collective expulsions. For that reason, it is necessary to introduce a border monitoring mechanism which will include representatives of civil society, as was, inter alia, recommended by the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) in its latest concluding observations on the second periodic report of Serbia” - Country Report: Serbia 2016 Update. Asylum Information Database. 31 December 2016.

“The asylum procedure is a single procedure where all claims for international protection are considered. The procedure consists of two instances. The first instance is an administrative procedure carried out by the Immigration and Asylum Office. The second instance is a judicial review procedure carried out by regional Administrative and Labour Courts, which are not specialised in asylum. There is inadmissibility and an accelerated procedure in addition to the normal procedure” - Country Report: Hungary 2016 Update. Asylum Information Database. 31 December 2016.

“The most serious concerns raised by UNHCR and many national and international human rights and refugee assisting organisations are with regard to the often used practice of indiscriminate push backs by authorities. 31 groups of asylum seekers reported throughout the past two years that the Bulgarian border police, together with the mixed patrols deployed along the land border with Turkey, pushed them back into the Turkish territory not only from the border line, but also from inland border areas and in numerous cases, with Frontex guards witnessing the event” - Country Report: Bulgaria 2016 Update. Asylum Information Database. 31 December 2016.

“The Border Enforcement Order directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to expand ‘expedited removal’ to the maximum extent possible. The order would apply expedited removal throughout the country, including the northern border with Canada, to individuals who entered the United States without documents and cannot prove that they have been continuously present for the previous two years. Since Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has consistently failed to refer asylum seekers for a credible fear screening, potential refugees are returned, without consideration of their claims, in violation of the fundamental obligation of non-refoulement contained in Article 33 of the Convention, also a protection mandatory under US law” - The Impact of President Trump’s Executive Orders on Asylum Seekers. Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program. 8 February 2017.

“Temporary Protected Status (TPS) is the statutory embodiment of safe haven for those migrants who may not meet the legal definition of refugee but are nonetheless fleeing - or reluctant to return to - potentially dangerous situations. TPS is blanket relief that may be granted under the following conditions: there is ongoing armed conflict posing serious threat to personal safety; a foreign state requests TPS because it temporarily cannot handle the return of nationals due to environmental disaster; or there are extraordinary and temporary conditions in a foreign state that prevent migrants from returning, provided that granting TPS is consistent with US national interests” - Temporary Protected Status: Current Immigration Policy and Issues. Carla N. Argueta. Congressional Research Service.  17 January 2017.

“The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) insisted on continued detention during proceedings after families received a favourable decision following screening interviews. Between June 2014 and February 2015, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) denied release to nearly all detained families in its initial custody determination, even those who had passed their screening interviews. When families sought reviews of decisions to continue detention before immigration judges, ICE attorneys opposed release, arguing that a ‘no bond’ or ‘high bond’ policy was necessary to ‘significantly reduce the unlawful mass migration of Guatemalans, Hondurans and Salvadorans’. Notwithstanding ICE’s position, when families were able to secure counsel and proceed to a full bond hearing in court, the judges often ordered that bond be set at a level enabling families to achieve release. ICE’s policy of detaining for deterrence achieved one of its intended results - imposition of lengthy delays for families, even after they had established viable asylum claims” - Obstacles to Reforming Family Detention in the United States. Dora Schriro. Global Detention Project. January 2017.

“Tens of thousands of removable aliens have been released into communities across the country, solely because their home countries refuse to accept their repatriation.  Many of these aliens are criminals who have served time in our federal, state, and local jails.  The presence of such individuals in the US, and the practices of foreign nations that refuse the repatriation of their nationals, are contrary to the national interest. Although federal immigration law provides a framework for federal-state partnerships in enforcing our immigration laws to ensure the removal of aliens who have no right to be in the US, the federal government has failed to discharge this basic sovereign responsibility.  We cannot faithfully execute the immigration laws of the US if we exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement.  The purpose of this order is to direct executive departments and agencies to employ all lawful means to enforce the immigration laws of the US” - Executive Order: Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States. 25 January 2017.

“The Secretary of State shall suspend the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) for 120 days.  During the 120-day period, the Secretary of State, in conjunction with the Secretary of Homeland Security and in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, shall review the USRAP application and adjudication process to determine what additional procedures should be taken to ensure that those approved for refugee admission do not pose a threat to the security and welfare of the United States, and shall implement such additional procedures” - Executive Order: Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States. 27 January 2017.

“This report demonstrates that the social and economic status of millions of US citizens would be substantially jeopardised by a massive deportation program.  Deportation of undocumented residents in mixed status households would decrease household income by about 50 percent. In addition, if just one-third of the US born children remained in the US after their parents were deported, the total financial burden of raising the children would be $118 billion. Mass deportation would also result in high default rates for the 2.4 million mortgages held by households with undocumented immigrants and, as a result, would undermine the US housing market. In addition, according to one study, the nation’s GDP would be reduced by an estimated $4.7 trillion over 10 years” - Mass Deportations Would Impoverish US Families and Create Immense Social Costs. Robert Warren and Donald Kerrwin. Center for Migration Studies. 31 January 2017.

“Although Ireland detains only a small number of people each year, human rights watchdogs have repeatedly criticised the country for using prisons and police (Garda Síochána) stations for immigration detention purposes. In a report on its visit to Ireland in September 2014, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) reiterated its argument - which it had made in previous reports to Ireland - that ‘a prison is by definition not a suitable place in which to detain someone who is neither suspected nor convicted of a criminal offence’. In its response to the CPT report, the Irish government stated that it planned to open a dedication immigration detention centre at Dublin Airport by 2016, a date it later pushed back during questioning at the Dáil (Assembly of Ireland). The Global Detention Project was unable to confirm the status of this facility” - Ireland Immigration Detention Profile.  Global Detention Project. January 2017.

“In the past few years, three UN human rights treaty monitoring bodies - the Human Rights Committee, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, and the Committee against Torture - have voiced concern that Latvian law fails to make detention a measure of last resort and for the shortest time possible. Other controversial measures include an initial ten day detention period without court authorisation, the detention of children older than 14, offering alternatives to detention only for humanitarian considerations, and the lack of provisions preventing repeat detention” - Latvia Immigration Detention Profile. Global Detention Project. January 2017.

“Despite these regularization exercises, both documented and undocumented migrant workers and asylum seekers remain at risk of arrest, detention, and deportation, as advocacy groups like the Mekong Migration Network have documented. Migration policies in Thailand often lead to confusion and migrant workers live under the constant threat of deportation” - Thailand Immigration Detention Profile. Global Detention Project. January 2017.

“Almost all of the activists whose murders are described in this report had reported that they were in danger and had already asked for protection. Of particular note are the defenders who have been granted emergency protection by The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). Since 2006, Honduras has been ordered by the IACHR to implement emergency protection in 49 cases. Shockingly, 13 of the beneficiaries have been assassinated and 99 per cent do not believe their security is guaranteed. A recent civil society report argues that the biggest obstacle is the government’s ‘lack of political will to comply’” - Honduras: The deadliest country in the world for environmental activists. Global Witness. January 2017.

“While this consultation is required, the 1980 Refugee Act gives the federal government ultimate authority over both whether to admit refugees and where they should be resettled. In the wake of the 2015 terror attacks in Paris, which were carried out by EU citizens who may have returned to Europe from the Middle East via refugee flows, more than thirty U.S. governors protested against the resettlement of any Syrian refugees in their states. Legal experts say that while states cannot directly block federal government decisions on where to place refugees, they can complicate the process by directing state agencies to refuse to cooperate with resettlement agencies, as the governors of Texas and Louisiana did.” How does the US refugee system work? Claire Felter and James McBride. Council on Foreign Relations. 6 February 2017.

“The main grounds on which Member States adopt pre-removal detention measures is the ‘risk of absconding’. However, the Return Directive provides a vague formulation of these grounds, leaving a considerable margin of interpretation to the Member States when defining objective criteria. The jurisprudence submitted by the national judges and academics point to the continuing difficulty that national legislators have in providing an objective definition of the “risk of absconding” and the difficulty of the national judiciary in filling the gaps in the legislative definitions, or in correcting administrative practices” - The Judicial Implementation of Chapter IV of the Return Directive Pre-Removal Detention Madalina Moraru and Géraldine Renaudiere. REDIAL.

“ICE, and the New York City-area facilities with which it contracts, routinely: deny vital medical treatment, such as dialysis and blood transfusions, to people with serious health conditions; subject sick people in need of surgery to unconscionable delays; ignore repeated complaints and requests for care from people with serious symptoms; and refuse basic items such as glasses and dentures to people with medical conditions such as diabetes” - Detained and Denied: Healthcare Access in Immigration Detention. New York Lawyers for the Public Interest. 15 February 2017.

“Although deterrence policies continue to flourish and take on new forms, there are signs indicating that ‘normal policymaking’ will not suffice for much longer. Not only has the deterrence paradigm been attacked for its negative humanitarian impact, but it has come under pressure from several other sides, to the point that its legal foundations, political stability, and likelihood of long-term effectiveness are all in doubt” - The End of the Deterrence Paradigm? Future Directions for Global Refugee Policy. Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen and Nikolas F. Tan. Center for Migration Studies. February 2017.

“Zimbabwe’s long condemned prisons have often been described as death zones because of the poor infrastructure and services in them. Disease and hunger have been the order of the day as government struggles to provide nutritious food to inmates due to recurrent financial challenges” - Country Policy and Information Note- Zimbabwe: Prison conditions. UK Home Office. 6 February 2017.

“Although there is a willingness at governmental level to provide protection, at a local level the police are not always willing, even if able, to provide effective protection to those members of the Sikh and Hindu communities who experience serious harm or harassment amounting to persecution” - Country Policy and Information Note - Afghanistan: Hindus and Sikhs. UK Home Office. 7 February 2017.

“Separately, the penal code maintains prison as a punishment for a variety of nonviolent speech offenses. Five days before adopting the new press code, parliament added to the penal code provisions, imposing prison on those who cross Morocco's long-standing "red lines" – "causing harm" to Islam, the monarchy, the person of the king and the royal family, and Morocco's "territorial integrity" (a reference to its claim to Western Sahara)” - World Report 2017- Morocco and Western Sahara. Human Rights Watch. 12 January 2017.

“When laws are clear and precise, people can also foresee the consequences of breaking the law. However, the State of Emergency Declaration and its implementation directive use imprecise terms such as ‘national security’ and ‘sovereignty’ to, for example, prohibit communications with international non-governmental organizations and foreign government bodies” - Ethiopia: Draconian State of Emergency Measures. Amnesty International. 10 February 2017.

“Reintegration into the community is in some cases extremely difficult, particularly for those who have no family support. Uganda does not have a state-supported post-deportation monitoring or integration programme, and RLP is the only organisation providing legal and psychosocial assistance to deportees. The immediate needs that deportees present include a place to stay, money for their daily sustenance, and medical assistance for those injured during removal and for those with pre-existing medical conditions” - A Grim return: Post-deportation risks in Uganda. Charity Ahumuza Onyoin. 9 February 2017.

“The traumatic experiences associated with child detention and family separation have been widely shown to be detrimental to mental health. 93 Such experiences may inhibit children’s capacity to properly adjust to Canadian society, trust public authority figures, and become productive members in their communities. Compromising children’s mental health through detention and family separation risks setting them up for potential pathologies and social dysfunction, which may have to be remedied through educational support, social welfare and health-care coverage” - Invisible Citizens: Canadian Children in Immigration Detention. University of Toronto Faculty of Law. 2017.

“Pushing the border out’ describes the process by which states employ a range of measures to keep asylum seekers from reaching national borders. States have expanded visa requirements and begun to fine airlines that allow passengers to travel without proper documentation, thereby preventing asylum seekers from reaching their territory. States have issued often dubious lists of ‘safe’ origin countries, declaring them incapable of producing refugees and thus avoiding the need to process the asylum claims of any nationals from listed countries” - Constrained by its Roots: How the Origins of the Global Asylum System Limit Contemporary Protection. Randall Hansen. Migration Policy Institute. January 2017.

“The EU as a whole failed to show leadership and solidarity in the face of the largest global displacement crisis since World War II. Much of the debate about policy responses focused on concerns about the impact on security and cultural identity and growing support for populist parties with xenophobic platforms. EU policies focused primarily on preventing arrivals and outsourcing responsibility for asylum seekers and refugees to other regions. World Report 2017: European Union: Events of 2016. Human Rights Watch. 2017.

“Among detainees held for protracted periods, HRM representatives identify some who have established families in Israel with partners from various countries. After their detention, many of these people find that there is no legal possibility for them to take their partner and children with them when they are removed from Israel. Accordingly, they are forced to choose between abandoning their family or remaining in detention for a protracted period in the hope that they may be able to secure status for their family in their own country of origin or that of their partner” - Forgotten in Prison: The Prolonged Detention of Migrants. Hotline for Refugees and Migrants Israel. 25 December 2016.

“Still in 2016, recognition rates vary significantly from one EU Member State to another. Sweden reported an overall protection rate of 77.4%, whereas neighbouring Finland had a rate of 35.2% and Hungary had a striking rate of 8.5%” - Asylum Statistics 2016: Sharper Inequalities and Persisting Asylum Lottery.  Asylum Information Database. 17 January 2017.

“The structural shortcomings of the CEAS and violations of asylum seekers’ human rights both result - first and foremost - from Member States’ non-compliance with their obligations under the EU asylum acquis and the EU Charter. Lack of effective monitoring and preventive assessment of Member States’ capacity, preparedness and performance in the field of asylum constitutes an important gap in the CEAS” - Agent of Protection? Shaping the EU Asylum Agency. European Council on Refugees and Exiles. 20 January 2017.

“Officers exercising effective control are fully bound by the principle of non-refoulement. If migrants request international protection they must be referred to the designated asylum authority, as required by Article 6 of the Asylum Procedures Directive. Otherwise, responsibility for refoulement is triggered. The obligation can also be triggered if the migrant does not apply for asylum and is denied entry in spite of indications that he or she is in need of international protection.” Scope of the principle of non-refoulement in contemporary border management: Evolving areas of law. European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights. December 2016.

“When assessing the risk, it is important to take into account the fluctuating character of many contemporary situations of armed conflict and violence. Changing levels of violence or control over territories and populations are common in situations of armed conflict and violence. For example, even if the level of violence at the time of decision-making is relatively low, over time the situation of armed conflict and violence may change, increasing the degree of risk establishing a well-founded fear” - Guidelines on International Protection No. 12: Claims for refugee status related to situations of armed conflict and violence under Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention and/or 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees and the regional refugee definitions. 2 December 2016.

“Refugee women in Greece have typically spent extended lengths of time in camp environments that are unsuitable for women – in particular survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, pregnant women, mothers and those with disabilities or health problems. During this time, very few can access information or advice, and even fewer are able to speak the languages required to seek help or change their circumstances” - Hidden Struggles: Filling Information Gaps Regarding Adversities Faced by Refugee Women in Europe. Refugee Rights Data Project. January 2017.

“The report sheds light on the features of the struggle of defenders who got involved in the public sphere at the start of the revolution. Others had experiences related to other important political events in Egypt, such as the Kefaya movement, the events of 6 April 2008 in the Greater Mahalla, and the murder of Khaled Saeed. The common factor between the defenders featured in this report is that they witnessed the corruption of the ruling regime, which had an impact later on their decisions to get involved in the public sphere” - In Their Own Words: Features of the Struggle of Women Human Rights Defenders in Egypt. 24 January 2017.

“The report sheds light on the features of the struggle of defenders who got involved in the public sphere at the start of the revolution. Others had experiences related to other important political events in Egypt, such as the Kefaya movement, the events of 6 April 2008 in the Greater Mahalla, and the murder of Khaled Saeed. The common factor between the defenders featured in this report is that they witnessed the corruption of the ruling regime, which had an impact later on their decisions to get involved in the public sphere” - Trump Executive Order on Refugees and Travel Ban: A Brief Review. Sarah Pierce and Doris Meissner. Migration Policy Institute. February 2017.

“Many witnesses and victims also described being taunted while they were being beaten, raped or rounded up, such as being told ‘you are Bangladeshis and you should go back’ or ‘What can your Allah do for you? See what we can do?’ The violence since 9 October follows a long-standing pattern of violations and abuses; systematic and systemic discrimination” - Interviews with Rohingyas fleeing from Myanmar since 9 October 2016 - Flash Report. UNHCR. 3 February 2017.

“The experts emphasised that the Government’s latest moves against civil society were especially alarming in view of the overall situation for human rights defenders in the country.‘The situation for human rights defenders has been dramatically deteriorating for more than a year and a half,’ they noted. ‘Those who have not yet left the country fear for their life and are under relentless intimidation, threat of arbitrary detention, torture and enforced disappearance’” -  Burundi: UN experts raise alarm at growing repression of NGOs and human rights defenders. UN Human Rights Council. 6 February 2017.

“There is no international treaty on the human rights of persons placed in immigration detention. Yet, such detention does not take place in a legal vacuum. National (and regional) laws, policies, and practices that ignore, bypass or violate recognized norms and standards of protection against arbitrary detention and lead to abuse in detention are subject to international (and regional) scrutiny and monitoring” - When Is Immigration Detention Lawful? The Monitoring Practices of UN Human Rights Mechanisms: Global Detention Project Working Paper No. 21. Mariette Grange and Izabella Majcher. Global Detention Project. February 2017.

“In a recent study, the Overseas Development Institute concluded that while the overall number of people arriving in Europe by sea through ‘overt’ routes decreased, tighter border controls have rerouted refugees and migrants towards alternative ‘covert’ routes” - The Eritrean Exodus: what happened in 2016? Bram Frouws. Regional Mixed Migration Secretariat. 9 February 2017.