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27 October 2014

The Promise of Human Rights? The Inter-American Court’s Advisory Opinion on the Rights of Migrant Children

8 September 2014

Illegal, Clandestine, Irregular: On Ways of Labelling People

24 July 2014

Tactics and Counter-tactics in Europe’s Border Control Landscape

16 July 2014

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

2 July 2014

No Place to Hide? The Ethics and Analytics of Tracking Mobility Using Mobile Phone Data

4 June 2014

A Change of State

26 May 2014

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

14 May 2014

Living at the Border: Refugee and Migrant Stories from Italy

12 May 2014

‘The Securitization of Migration and Refugee Women’: Qualitative Research with Somali Women in Malta

8 May 2014

But What about Trafficking?

5 May 2014

The Migrants Files: A Quantitative Approach to Migration Policy

23 April 2014

Dancing in a Dangerous Time: Canada’s Treatment of Foreign Strippers

7 April 2014

Alternatives to Detention: The MADE REAL Project

10 March 2014

“It is not what I do, but what we do for others”: Smugglers on Human Smuggling

3 March 2014

The Politics of Life at Sea: A Note on Sources

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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

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

The Promise of Human Rights? The Inter-American Court’s Advisory Opinion on the Rights of Migrant Children

Illegal, Clandestine, Irregular: On Ways of Labelling People

Tactics and Counter-tactics in Europe’s Border Control Landscape

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

No Place to Hide? The Ethics and Analytics of Tracking Mobility Using Mobile Phone Data

A Change of State

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

Living at the Border: Refugee and Migrant Stories from Italy

‘The Securitization of Migration and Refugee Women’: Qualitative Research with Somali Women in Malta

But What about Trafficking?

The Migrants Files: A Quantitative Approach to Migration Policy

Dancing in a Dangerous Time: Canada’s Treatment of Foreign Strippers

Alternatives to Detention: The MADE REAL Project

“It is not what I do, but what we do for others”: Smugglers on Human Smuggling

The Politics of Life at Sea: A Note on Sources

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

The Promise of Human Rights? The Inter-American Court’s Advisory Opinion on the Rights of Migrant Children

Illegal, Clandestine, Irregular: On Ways of Labelling People

Tactics and Counter-tactics in Europe’s Border Control Landscape

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

No Place to Hide? The Ethics and Analytics of Tracking Mobility Using Mobile Phone Data

A Change of State

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

Living at the Border: Refugee and Migrant Stories from Italy

‘The Securitization of Migration and Refugee Women’: Qualitative Research with Somali Women in Malta

But What about Trafficking?

The Migrants Files: A Quantitative Approach to Migration Policy

Dancing in a Dangerous Time: Canada’s Treatment of Foreign Strippers

Alternatives to Detention: The MADE REAL Project

“It is not what I do, but what we do for others”: Smugglers on Human Smuggling

The Politics of Life at Sea: A Note on Sources

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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