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18 February 2015

Helping Ourselves to Deal with the Pain of Others: Secondary Traumatization Syndrome and Vicarious Traumatization

16 February 2015

Thinking and Talking about Research Methodologies: Why Should we Bother?

9 February 2015

Measuring the Quality of Life in Immigration Detention

1 December 2014

The UK’s Parliamentary Inquiry into Immigration Detention

3 September 2014

Research Notes: Asylum Seeking and the Global City

16 July 2014

Research Notes: The EU's Response to Irregular Migration and the Problem of Criminalisation

27 June 2014

Announcing the new SSRN Legal Research Paper Series: Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship

26 May 2014

The Doors are Open to Us: On Parliamentary Inquiries and the Plight of Europe’s Migrants

5 May 2014

The Migrants Files: A Quantitative Approach to Migration Policy

28 April 2014

New Free Online Anthologies Related to Migration, Human Rights

4 April 2014

Everyday Life in Immigration Detention

2 April 2014

What Does a Woman Need to Know Before her Asylum Interview?

20 March 2014

Teaching Matters: Thinking about the Pedagogy of Borders

28 February 2014

Wrongly Convicted Asylum Seekers: Whose Responsibility?

12 February 2014

Stateless Terrorists: Citizenship in an Age of Risk

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20 October 2026

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

by: Galatea Scotti, Chiara Catelli

2)

11 September 2026

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

by: Rachid Benharrousse

3)

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

5)

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

Helping Ourselves to Deal with the Pain of Others: Secondary Traumatization Syndrome and Vicarious Traumatization

Thinking and Talking about Research Methodologies: Why Should we Bother?

Measuring the Quality of Life in Immigration Detention

The UK’s Parliamentary Inquiry into Immigration Detention

Research Notes: Asylum Seeking and the Global City

Research Notes: The EU's Response to Irregular Migration and the Problem of Criminalisation

Announcing the new SSRN Legal Research Paper Series: Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship

The Doors are Open to Us: On Parliamentary Inquiries and the Plight of Europe’s Migrants

The Migrants Files: A Quantitative Approach to Migration Policy

New Free Online Anthologies Related to Migration, Human Rights

Everyday Life in Immigration Detention

What Does a Woman Need to Know Before her Asylum Interview?

Teaching Matters: Thinking about the Pedagogy of Borders

Wrongly Convicted Asylum Seekers: Whose Responsibility?

Stateless Terrorists: Citizenship in an Age of Risk

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

With the support of

Border Criminologies Blog

Helping Ourselves to Deal with the Pain of Others: Secondary Traumatization Syndrome and Vicarious Traumatization

Thinking and Talking about Research Methodologies: Why Should we Bother?

Measuring the Quality of Life in Immigration Detention

The UK’s Parliamentary Inquiry into Immigration Detention

Research Notes: Asylum Seeking and the Global City

Research Notes: The EU's Response to Irregular Migration and the Problem of Criminalisation

Announcing the new SSRN Legal Research Paper Series: Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship

The Doors are Open to Us: On Parliamentary Inquiries and the Plight of Europe’s Migrants

The Migrants Files: A Quantitative Approach to Migration Policy

New Free Online Anthologies Related to Migration, Human Rights

Everyday Life in Immigration Detention

What Does a Woman Need to Know Before her Asylum Interview?

Teaching Matters: Thinking about the Pedagogy of Borders

Wrongly Convicted Asylum Seekers: Whose Responsibility?

Stateless Terrorists: Citizenship in an Age of Risk

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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