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26 May 2023

The Coloniality of Encampment and Deportation as a Mode of Mobility Governance

by: Clayton Boeyink, Nina Sahraoui, Elsa Tyszler

6 April 2021

Haitian Immigration and the International Racial System

1 October 2019

‘3 Mexican Countries’: When All Latin American Migrants Become Mexicans

19 October 2018

Book Review: Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

10 March 2017

Book Review: Mobile Selves: Race, Migration and Belonging in Peru and the U.S

18 January 2017

Race in the Shadow of Law: State Violence in Contemporary Europe

4 November 2016

Policing the Boundaries of Belonging

3 November 2016

Culturalising Crime? Racialisation through Criminal Litigation

1 November 2016

Crimmigration Law Enforcement: The Intersection of Race and Gender in Border Policing

31 October 2016

Fleeing the Cycle of Gender-Based Violence in Central America: Female Asylum Seekers from Honduras

28 October 2016

Staff, Race, and Power in Detention

26 October 2016

Raced and Gendered Logics of Immigration Law Enforcement

24 October 2016

Race, Migration and Criminal Justice

19 September 2016

Enforcing the Boundaries of Belonging: Race, Criminal Justice and Migration Control

5 April 2016

Excluding Racialized Bodies: Migrants and Refugees

1)

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

4)

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 Coloniality of Encampment and Deportation as a Mode of Mobility Governance

Haitian Immigration and the International Racial System

‘3 Mexican Countries’: When All Latin American Migrants Become Mexicans

Book Review: Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Book Review: Mobile Selves: Race, Migration and Belonging in Peru and the U.S

Race in the Shadow of Law: State Violence in Contemporary Europe

Policing the Boundaries of Belonging

Culturalising Crime? Racialisation through Criminal Litigation

Crimmigration Law Enforcement: The Intersection of Race and Gender in Border Policing

Fleeing the Cycle of Gender-Based Violence in Central America: Female Asylum Seekers from Honduras

Staff, Race, and Power in Detention

Raced and Gendered Logics of Immigration Law Enforcement

Race, Migration and Criminal Justice

Enforcing the Boundaries of Belonging: Race, Criminal Justice and Migration Control

Excluding Racialized Bodies: Migrants and Refugees

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 Coloniality of Encampment and Deportation as a Mode of Mobility Governance

Haitian Immigration and the International Racial System

‘3 Mexican Countries’: When All Latin American Migrants Become Mexicans

Book Review: Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Book Review: Mobile Selves: Race, Migration and Belonging in Peru and the U.S

Race in the Shadow of Law: State Violence in Contemporary Europe

Policing the Boundaries of Belonging

Culturalising Crime? Racialisation through Criminal Litigation

Crimmigration Law Enforcement: The Intersection of Race and Gender in Border Policing

Fleeing the Cycle of Gender-Based Violence in Central America: Female Asylum Seekers from Honduras

Staff, Race, and Power in Detention

Raced and Gendered Logics of Immigration Law Enforcement

Race, Migration and Criminal Justice

Enforcing the Boundaries of Belonging: Race, Criminal Justice and Migration Control

Excluding Racialized Bodies: Migrants and Refugees

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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