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An Air France aeroplane on the tarmac at Rome Fiumicino airport, with workers in bright orange suits underneath

Deprivation of care: Right to health in Italy’s deportations by air

by: Carolina Di Luciano

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Passport control at Montreal airport – people queue at scanners in a busy warehouse setting while security guards look on from the edges

Digital passing as an alternative to identity fraud: forging for survival

by: Beata Paragi

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Train tracks through a countryside along the Balkan route. Green shrubs border the tracks

A different Odyssey: Refuge, home and the search for self

by: Kinan Noah

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Protestors walk in the streets in Berlin following the attack on the pride march just days before. Some walk with bikes, many wear bright colours and hold banners reading 'Protect queer lives' and 'Our grief is not your hate campaign'

Co-opting the threat: Racist discourse and calls for denaturalisation after Berlin Pride attack

by: Luise Freitag, Selmar Krug

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Illustration. A child, in black and white, sits in a grey space with black bars vertically behind. Inside the child's chest are figures of people in white. Blue clouds sit around their head and green stairs lead outwards from their body. At the top of the right-hand stairs are little white birds on an orange square. At the top of the left stairs, another orange square and a person tending to little green plants.

EU ‘Deportation Regulation’: ‘Alternatives to detention’ and the expanded toolbox for control, surveillance and coercion

by: Galatea Scotti, Chiara Catelli

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Illustration. Orange background with grey clouds. Hands hold up a circular mirror or frame, and inside is a grey cell with a child sitting against the wall with their knees up.

EU ‘Deportation Regulation’: a massive expansion of immigration detention

by: Galatea Scotti, Chiara Catelli

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A person sits on a hill overlooking the detention centre in Gjader, Albania: a huge white sprawl of containers and buildings, contrasted against the green of the landscape around.

University entanglement with carceral border institutions: Medical Education, dual loyalty and complicity in Italy-Albania detention centres

by: Nicola Cocco, Kristina Millona, Patrizia Borsellino, Vittorio Agnoletto, Antonello D’Elia, Lara Tavoschi, Francesca Cimino, Fabio Perocco, Francesca Esposito, Chiara Montaldo, Camilla Ponti

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A black and white image of a road at the border of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Two phone numbers are written on the road in white chalk – contact numbers for the Balkan route

Architecture of containment: How the EU Pact entrenches harms in Bosnia detention centre

by: Georgia Wells

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A banner strung between two trees, in front of a block of flats reads in Italian: "Tutta fuori! Chiudere Tutti i CPR. Iberare Tutta" / “Everyone out. Close all CPRs. Free them all”

Medical care as a tool of border control: health-centred struggles against border carcerality in Italy

by: Nicola Cocco, Camilla Ponti, Francesca Esposito

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A setting sun over the wide open sea, shot from on board a rescue boat – the orange side of the boat visible on the right-hand side

Out of sight, out of mind? How a colonial past shapes the Italy-Libya migration partnership

by: Diana Volpe

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A man and a woman dressed in black stand solemnly by dozens of rows of wooden coffins laid out in a sports hall

Implications of new 'migrant-scafisti' term for criminalised boat drivers before Italian Constitutional Court

by: Stefano Zirulia

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Two small white fishing boats full of people are at sea. A rhib/ dinghy boat with people in rescue gear and life jackets is positioned close to one of the white boats. Another, smaller grey boat is positioned nearby. A close up shot in frame gives a pixellated image of the men on the grey boat – one appears to be holding a weapon

Violence in the Central Mediterranean: EU-backed impunity and lawlessness

by: Sofia Bifulco , Marie Michel

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A brick wall with institutional-looking buildings behind it. On the wall is written 'No CPR' (Italian for 'no detention')

Health, care and control: Entanglements of healthcare provision in immigration detention

by: Andriani Fili, Francesca Esposito

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A woman in a high vis jacket is pictured from below standing next to a tall green fence. She holds a sign upside down that reads '#set her free'

Motherhood and intersectionality: Social harms under the UK asylum system

by: Amy Cortvriend, Vardan Petrosian

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Supporting survival cards and leaflet laid out on a table

Supporting Survival: Developing a toolkit for supporting refugee survivors of torture and torturous violence

by: Vicky Canning

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Top blogs posts this month

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EU ‘Deportation Regulation’: a massive expansion of immigration detention

by: Galatea Scotti, Chiara Catelli

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Lharba at the border: Escape, rumours, and the making of the 2026 Ceuta crossings

by: Rachid Benharrousse

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Out of sight, out of mind? How a colonial past shapes the Italy-Libya migration partnership

by: Diana Volpe

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University entanglement with carceral border institutions: Medical Education, dual loyalty and complicity in Italy-Albania detention centres

by: Nicola Cocco, Kristina Millona, Patrizia Borsellino, Vittorio Agnoletto, Antonello D’Elia, Lara Tavoschi, Francesca Cimino, Fabio Perocco, Francesca Esposito, Chiara Montaldo, Camilla Ponti

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EU ‘Deportation Regulation’: ‘Alternatives to detention’ and the expanded toolbox for control, surveillance and coercion

by: Galatea Scotti, Chiara Catelli

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