Issue 469

January / February 2014 - "Why are we locking up migrants?"

From this month's magazine:

• Why are we locking up migrants?

• Tough Guide to the world's immigration detention centres

• Take action on the detention of migrants: links and more information

• Is flying still a possibility?

• Slavery in Mauritania

• Parents fighting for school places is the worst kind of snobbery

Web exclusive:

• Argument: If we make the detention of migrants more humane, does this increase detention?

• Benjamin Zephaniah: it's my duty to help and inspire

• The companies who put foreigners in prison and make money

A selection from the blogs this month:

• Around the world, one border at a time

• Peaceful protesters against the arms fair go to court

• EU must stop selling arms - it's hypocrisy

• Pink guns to stop the rapists? Don't make me laugh

• Davos: Global inequality is about power, not just wealth

• EU takes an important step to stop banks betting on hunger

• Another sad death in a detention centre