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12 November 2014

Migrant Death at the Clashing Rocks: The Tragedy of the Torun

10 November 2014

When it Comes to US Punishment, Noncitizens May be the New Face of Legal Inequality

5 November 2014

From the Field: Back and Forth in a Special Hospital

31 October 2014

From the Field: Transitioning ‘Out’ of Fieldwork and into the ‘Data’

29 October 2014

The Deportation Mess: A Bureaucratic Muddling of State Fantasies

27 October 2014

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

22 October 2014

The Right to Cross Borders: Illegalizing Mobility Inside Europe through Large-scale Policing Operations

17 October 2014

New Podcast: Inside Immigration Detention with Mary Bosworth

10 October 2014

Detention, Deportation, and the Family

22 September 2014

Views from Detention

8 September 2014

Illegal, Clandestine, Irregular: On Ways of Labelling People

3 September 2014

Research Notes: Asylum Seeking and the Global City

5 August 2014

Inside Immigration Detention Centres

31 July 2014

Research Notes: Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control

16 July 2014

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

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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)

10 November 2026

Building an archive of deaths in Greek immigration detention centres

by: Andriani Fili, Stergios Magkriotis, Alice Troy-Donovan

4)

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

Border Criminologies Blog

Migrant Death at the Clashing Rocks: The Tragedy of the Torun

When it Comes to US Punishment, Noncitizens May be the New Face of Legal Inequality

From the Field: Back and Forth in a Special Hospital

From the Field: Transitioning ‘Out’ of Fieldwork and into the ‘Data’

The Deportation Mess: A Bureaucratic Muddling of State Fantasies

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

The Right to Cross Borders: Illegalizing Mobility Inside Europe through Large-scale Policing Operations

New Podcast: Inside Immigration Detention with Mary Bosworth

Detention, Deportation, and the Family

Views from Detention

Illegal, Clandestine, Irregular: On Ways of Labelling People

Research Notes: Asylum Seeking and the Global City

Inside Immigration Detention Centres

Research Notes: Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control

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

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)

Building an archive of deaths in Greek immigration detention centres

4)

Out of sight, out of mind? How a colonial past shapes the Italy-Libya migration partnership

5)

University entanglement with carceral border institutions: Medical Education, dual loyalty and complicity in Italy-Albania detention centres

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Border Criminologies Blog

Migrant Death at the Clashing Rocks: The Tragedy of the Torun

When it Comes to US Punishment, Noncitizens May be the New Face of Legal Inequality

From the Field: Back and Forth in a Special Hospital

From the Field: Transitioning ‘Out’ of Fieldwork and into the ‘Data’

The Deportation Mess: A Bureaucratic Muddling of State Fantasies

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

The Right to Cross Borders: Illegalizing Mobility Inside Europe through Large-scale Policing Operations

New Podcast: Inside Immigration Detention with Mary Bosworth

Detention, Deportation, and the Family

Views from Detention

Illegal, Clandestine, Irregular: On Ways of Labelling People

Research Notes: Asylum Seeking and the Global City

Inside Immigration Detention Centres

Research Notes: Race, Gender and the Body in British Immigration Control

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

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)

Building an archive of deaths in Greek immigration detention centres

4)

Out of sight, out of mind? How a colonial past shapes the Italy-Libya migration partnership

5)

University entanglement with carceral border institutions: Medical Education, dual loyalty and complicity in Italy-Albania detention centres

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