Border Criminologies Blog

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26 February 2016

Book Review: A Public Anthropology of Policing: Law Enforcement and Migrants in the Netherlands

4 February 2016

Finding Professional Satisfaction in Low Status Police Work

7 December 2015

Book Commentary: Punish & Expel: Border Control, Nationalism, and the New Purpose of Prison

10 September 2015

Who Gets In? How States Regulate Acceptable versus Unacceptable Marriages

24 July 2015

Gender and Migration: Reflecting on the Debate

17 April 2015

Gender, Race, and Immigration Detention

15 April 2015

When Doesn’t Racial Profiling Count as Racial Profiling?

14 April 2015

‘Race’ to Borders or Why Brown Death Matters

13 April 2015

The Racism and Immorality of the Operation Gatekeeper Death Trap

9 April 2015

Interior Enforcement and the Racial Construction of the Border

8 April 2015

Border Enforcement as Political Theater

7 April 2015

US Immigration Laws and the Making of Model Minorities and Illegal Aliens

6 April 2015

Race and Border Control: Is There a Relationship?

27 March 2015

‘Victims of Trafficking’ and ‘Foreign Criminals’: Constructing the State as Our (Masculine) Saviour

13 February 2015

Widening Participation, Consolidating Research: Developments on the Blog

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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

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

Book Review: A Public Anthropology of Policing: Law Enforcement and Migrants in the Netherlands

Finding Professional Satisfaction in Low Status Police Work

Book Commentary: Punish & Expel: Border Control, Nationalism, and the New Purpose of Prison

Who Gets In? How States Regulate Acceptable versus Unacceptable Marriages

Gender and Migration: Reflecting on the Debate

Gender, Race, and Immigration Detention

When Doesn’t Racial Profiling Count as Racial Profiling?

‘Race’ to Borders or Why Brown Death Matters

The Racism and Immorality of the Operation Gatekeeper Death Trap

Interior Enforcement and the Racial Construction of the Border

Border Enforcement as Political Theater

US Immigration Laws and the Making of Model Minorities and Illegal Aliens

Race and Border Control: Is There a Relationship?

‘Victims of Trafficking’ and ‘Foreign Criminals’: Constructing the State as Our (Masculine) Saviour

Widening Participation, Consolidating Research: Developments on the Blog

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

Book Review: A Public Anthropology of Policing: Law Enforcement and Migrants in the Netherlands

Finding Professional Satisfaction in Low Status Police Work

Book Commentary: Punish & Expel: Border Control, Nationalism, and the New Purpose of Prison

Who Gets In? How States Regulate Acceptable versus Unacceptable Marriages

Gender and Migration: Reflecting on the Debate

Gender, Race, and Immigration Detention

When Doesn’t Racial Profiling Count as Racial Profiling?

‘Race’ to Borders or Why Brown Death Matters

The Racism and Immorality of the Operation Gatekeeper Death Trap

Interior Enforcement and the Racial Construction of the Border

Border Enforcement as Political Theater

US Immigration Laws and the Making of Model Minorities and Illegal Aliens

Race and Border Control: Is There a Relationship?

‘Victims of Trafficking’ and ‘Foreign Criminals’: Constructing the State as Our (Masculine) Saviour

Widening Participation, Consolidating Research: Developments on the Blog

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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