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22 March 2021

Weaponising Geography on the Greek-Turkish Border

13 January 2021

Validating Border Violence on the Aegean: Frontex’s Internal Records

16 December 2020

Accessing Human Rights in Immigration Detention in Greece

28 October 2020

Under-Researched, Transnational, Silent: Disappearances in Transit to Europe

5 October 2020

Interview with Evgenia Iliadou

9 September 2020

Confine to Protect: Greek Hotspots and the Hygienic-Sanitary Borders of Covid-19

6 July 2020

Humanitarian Smugglers? The EU Facilitation Directive and the Criminalisation of Civil Society

22 November 2019

Detention in Kos and Monitoring Practices

20 November 2019

Ending Up in Detention on the Island of Kos: The ‘Undesirable’ Foreigners

19 November 2019

Monitoring Immigration Detention at the Borders of Europe

29 October 2019

From the Field: Approaching Detention from Different Perspectives

15 February 2019

Beyond Deportation: Researching the Control of Outward Mobility Using a Space of Flows Logic

24 January 2019

Voices in Immigration Detention Centres in Greece: Different Actors and Possibilities for Change

15 October 2018

Mental Health in Displacement – A Widespread Yet Largely Overlooked Crisis

18 June 2018

Monitoring Immigration Detention at the Borders of Europe

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20 October 2026

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

by: Galatea Scotti, Chiara Catelli

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11 September 2026

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

by: Rachid Benharrousse

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6 October 2026

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

by: Diana Volpe

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16 October 2026

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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23 October 2026

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

by: Galatea Scotti, Chiara Catelli

Border Criminologies Blog

Weaponising Geography on the Greek-Turkish Border

Validating Border Violence on the Aegean: Frontex’s Internal Records

Accessing Human Rights in Immigration Detention in Greece

Under-Researched, Transnational, Silent: Disappearances in Transit to Europe

Interview with Evgenia Iliadou

Confine to Protect: Greek Hotspots and the Hygienic-Sanitary Borders of Covid-19

Humanitarian Smugglers? The EU Facilitation Directive and the Criminalisation of Civil Society

Detention in Kos and Monitoring Practices

Ending Up in Detention on the Island of Kos: The ‘Undesirable’ Foreigners

Monitoring Immigration Detention at the Borders of Europe

From the Field: Approaching Detention from Different Perspectives

Beyond Deportation: Researching the Control of Outward Mobility Using a Space of Flows Logic

Voices in Immigration Detention Centres in Greece: Different Actors and Possibilities for Change

Mental Health in Displacement – A Widespread Yet Largely Overlooked Crisis

Monitoring Immigration Detention at the Borders of Europe

Top blogs posts this month

1)

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

2)

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

3)

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

4)

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

5)

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

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Border Criminologies Blog

Weaponising Geography on the Greek-Turkish Border

Validating Border Violence on the Aegean: Frontex’s Internal Records

Accessing Human Rights in Immigration Detention in Greece

Under-Researched, Transnational, Silent: Disappearances in Transit to Europe

Interview with Evgenia Iliadou

Confine to Protect: Greek Hotspots and the Hygienic-Sanitary Borders of Covid-19

Humanitarian Smugglers? The EU Facilitation Directive and the Criminalisation of Civil Society

Detention in Kos and Monitoring Practices

Ending Up in Detention on the Island of Kos: The ‘Undesirable’ Foreigners

Monitoring Immigration Detention at the Borders of Europe

From the Field: Approaching Detention from Different Perspectives

Beyond Deportation: Researching the Control of Outward Mobility Using a Space of Flows Logic

Voices in Immigration Detention Centres in Greece: Different Actors and Possibilities for Change

Mental Health in Displacement – A Widespread Yet Largely Overlooked Crisis

Monitoring Immigration Detention at the Borders of Europe

Top blogs posts this month

1)

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

2)

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

3)

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

4)

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

5)

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

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