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7 March 2022

Mental Health and the Politics of Exhaustion in the UK Asylum Process

4 March 2022

From Civic to Autonomous Solidarity: How Grassroots Initiatives in Brussels Reorganised Accommodation for Migrants in Transit During the Covid-19 Pandemic

3 March 2022

‘Hypervulnerability’ Through Adapted Asylum Procedures During Covid-19 In Belgium

25 February 2022

Everyday Violence in Informal Camps: Distributing Materials Using the Queue

21 February 2022

Everyday Violence and Resistance in Europe’s ‘Migration Management’ During the Covid-19 Pandemic

12 January 2022

Deconstructing Border Walls in the EU

17 December 2021

Challenging the Borders of Difference and Inequality: The Power of Place, Processes, and People

29 November 2021

The Membership Lottery: New Zealand’s COVID-19 Quarantine and the Convergence of Border and Infectious Disease Control

2 November 2021

Breaking (Into) Fortress Europe: Are Bottom-Up Migration Policies Still Possible?

26 October 2021

Migration Diplomacy in Ceuta: How a 45-Year-Old Conflict Can Hamper EU Border Management

11 October 2021

Criminalisation and Humanitarian Border Policing in the Channel

7 October 2021

Mati Diop’s Atlantics: Towards a Border Hauntology?

7 October 2021

‘Regreso’: A Film Reframes the Border Spectacle on Unaccompanied Moroccan Minors at the Moroccan-Spanish Border

14 September 2021

Membership Without Mobility: The Counterfactual as Fact

7 September 2021

Border Externalization to West Africa: Three Logics of Border Security Technologies

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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

Mental Health and the Politics of Exhaustion in the UK Asylum Process

From Civic to Autonomous Solidarity: How Grassroots Initiatives in Brussels Reorganised Accommodation for Migrants in Transit During the Covid-19 Pandemic

‘Hypervulnerability’ Through Adapted Asylum Procedures During Covid-19 In Belgium

Everyday Violence in Informal Camps: Distributing Materials Using the Queue

Everyday Violence and Resistance in Europe’s ‘Migration Management’ During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Deconstructing Border Walls in the EU

Challenging the Borders of Difference and Inequality: The Power of Place, Processes, and People

The Membership Lottery: New Zealand’s COVID-19 Quarantine and the Convergence of Border and Infectious Disease Control

Breaking (Into) Fortress Europe: Are Bottom-Up Migration Policies Still Possible?

Migration Diplomacy in Ceuta: How a 45-Year-Old Conflict Can Hamper EU Border Management

Criminalisation and Humanitarian Border Policing in the Channel

Mati Diop’s Atlantics: Towards a Border Hauntology?

‘Regreso’: A Film Reframes the Border Spectacle on Unaccompanied Moroccan Minors at the Moroccan-Spanish Border

Membership Without Mobility: The Counterfactual as Fact

Border Externalization to West Africa: Three Logics of Border Security Technologies

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

Mental Health and the Politics of Exhaustion in the UK Asylum Process

From Civic to Autonomous Solidarity: How Grassroots Initiatives in Brussels Reorganised Accommodation for Migrants in Transit During the Covid-19 Pandemic

‘Hypervulnerability’ Through Adapted Asylum Procedures During Covid-19 In Belgium

Everyday Violence in Informal Camps: Distributing Materials Using the Queue

Everyday Violence and Resistance in Europe’s ‘Migration Management’ During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Deconstructing Border Walls in the EU

Challenging the Borders of Difference and Inequality: The Power of Place, Processes, and People

The Membership Lottery: New Zealand’s COVID-19 Quarantine and the Convergence of Border and Infectious Disease Control

Breaking (Into) Fortress Europe: Are Bottom-Up Migration Policies Still Possible?

Migration Diplomacy in Ceuta: How a 45-Year-Old Conflict Can Hamper EU Border Management

Criminalisation and Humanitarian Border Policing in the Channel

Mati Diop’s Atlantics: Towards a Border Hauntology?

‘Regreso’: A Film Reframes the Border Spectacle on Unaccompanied Moroccan Minors at the Moroccan-Spanish Border

Membership Without Mobility: The Counterfactual as Fact

Border Externalization to West Africa: Three Logics of Border Security Technologies

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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