The No Place For Children campaign, to be launched next week, will join national efforts from the Children's Commissioner for England and the Children's Society to end the practice for good.
Until detention of asylum-seeking children is ended, the New Statesman will call for better independent oversight of the system, accurate records of all children in immigration detention, welfare assessments for all children and communication with parents in their own language.
The campaign will include articles from Sir Al Aynsley-Green, Children's Commissioner for England, testimonies from asylum-seeking children and short films to be put on the magazine's website.
It is backed by the Children's Society, the children's commissioner, Bail for Immigration Detainees and Women for Refugee Women.
A spokeswoman for the Children's Society said: "We can't tolerate the detention of children for immigration purposes."
It is thought around 2,000 children are detained in immigration detention centres every year.
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