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21 November 2014

“Our Boats, Our People, Our Knowledge”

19 November 2014

Asylum Seeking, Identity Tracking Techniques, and the Paradox of Web Truths

1 October 2014

Blogging Personal Narratives of Deportation: Interview with Life After Deportation

3 September 2014

Research Notes: Asylum Seeking and the Global City

24 July 2014

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

11 July 2014

R (Detention Action) v SSHD: A (Partial) Victory Against Detained Fast Track

8 July 2014

Canadian Court Rules that Denying Asylum Seekers’ Access to Public Health Care is “Cruel and Unusual Treatment” and Discriminatory

9 June 2014

Comparing the Detention of Asylum Seekers in the UK and the US

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

2 April 2014

What Does a Woman Need to Know Before her Asylum Interview?

14 March 2014

Border Security and the Neoliberal 'Dungeon': A Canadian Case

3 March 2014

The Politics of Life at Sea: A Note on Sources

28 February 2014

Wrongly Convicted Asylum Seekers: Whose Responsibility?

26 February 2014

A Place of Greater Safety: The Prosecution of Refugees for Passport Offences

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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

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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

“Our Boats, Our People, Our Knowledge”

Asylum Seeking, Identity Tracking Techniques, and the Paradox of Web Truths

Blogging Personal Narratives of Deportation: Interview with Life After Deportation

Research Notes: Asylum Seeking and the Global City

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

R (Detention Action) v SSHD: A (Partial) Victory Against Detained Fast Track

Canadian Court Rules that Denying Asylum Seekers’ Access to Public Health Care is “Cruel and Unusual Treatment” and Discriminatory

Comparing the Detention of Asylum Seekers in the UK and the US

Living at the Border: Refugee and Migrant Stories from Italy

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

What Does a Woman Need to Know Before her Asylum Interview?

Border Security and the Neoliberal 'Dungeon': A Canadian Case

The Politics of Life at Sea: A Note on Sources

Wrongly Convicted Asylum Seekers: Whose Responsibility?

A Place of Greater Safety: The Prosecution of Refugees for Passport Offences

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

With the support of

Border Criminologies Blog

“Our Boats, Our People, Our Knowledge”

Asylum Seeking, Identity Tracking Techniques, and the Paradox of Web Truths

Blogging Personal Narratives of Deportation: Interview with Life After Deportation

Research Notes: Asylum Seeking and the Global City

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

R (Detention Action) v SSHD: A (Partial) Victory Against Detained Fast Track

Canadian Court Rules that Denying Asylum Seekers’ Access to Public Health Care is “Cruel and Unusual Treatment” and Discriminatory

Comparing the Detention of Asylum Seekers in the UK and the US

Living at the Border: Refugee and Migrant Stories from Italy

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

What Does a Woman Need to Know Before her Asylum Interview?

Border Security and the Neoliberal 'Dungeon': A Canadian Case

The Politics of Life at Sea: A Note on Sources

Wrongly Convicted Asylum Seekers: Whose Responsibility?

A Place of Greater Safety: The Prosecution of Refugees for Passport Offences

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

With the support of

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