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20 November 2020

‘No one is looking at us anymore’: Migrant Detention and Covid-19 in Italy

8 October 2020

Interview with Lucia Gennari

6 October 2020

Interview with Zakaria Mohamed Ali

18 September 2020

Book Review: Reframing Migration: Lampedusa, Border Spectacle and Aesthetics of Subversion

6 July 2020

Humanitarian Smugglers? The EU Facilitation Directive and the Criminalisation of Civil Society

23 June 2020

Social Control and a European ‘Demos’ between Covid-19 and Racism

10 June 2020

Rethinking Immigration Detention During and After Covid-19: Insights from Italy

25 April 2019

Warehousing Asylum Seekers: Salvini’s Attempt to Dismantle the Italian Reception System

15 February 2019

Beyond Deportation: Researching the Control of Outward Mobility Using a Space of Flows Logic

22 October 2018

Controlling Migration through De Facto Detention: The Case of the ‘Diciotti’ Italian Ship

11 September 2018

Outsourcing European Border Control: Recent Trends in Departures, Deaths and Search and Rescue Activities in the Central Mediterranean

11 July 2018

Where Are We Going? Italy (And Europe) at the Crossroads between Xenophobia and Hospitality

22 June 2018

Performing Asylum in a Gender Perspective: Women’s Struggles across the European Southern Border

18 June 2018

Monitoring Immigration Detention at the Borders of Europe

29 May 2018

Dispersing their Lives: Refugees Kept On the Move between Italy and Germany

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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

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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

‘No one is looking at us anymore’: Migrant Detention and Covid-19 in Italy

Interview with Lucia Gennari

Interview with Zakaria Mohamed Ali

Book Review: Reframing Migration: Lampedusa, Border Spectacle and Aesthetics of Subversion

Humanitarian Smugglers? The EU Facilitation Directive and the Criminalisation of Civil Society

Social Control and a European ‘Demos’ between Covid-19 and Racism

Rethinking Immigration Detention During and After Covid-19: Insights from Italy

Warehousing Asylum Seekers: Salvini’s Attempt to Dismantle the Italian Reception System

Beyond Deportation: Researching the Control of Outward Mobility Using a Space of Flows Logic

Controlling Migration through De Facto Detention: The Case of the ‘Diciotti’ Italian Ship

Outsourcing European Border Control: Recent Trends in Departures, Deaths and Search and Rescue Activities in the Central Mediterranean

Where Are We Going? Italy (And Europe) at the Crossroads between Xenophobia and Hospitality

Performing Asylum in a Gender Perspective: Women’s Struggles across the European Southern Border

Monitoring Immigration Detention at the Borders of Europe

Dispersing their Lives: Refugees Kept On the Move between Italy and Germany

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

‘No one is looking at us anymore’: Migrant Detention and Covid-19 in Italy

Interview with Lucia Gennari

Interview with Zakaria Mohamed Ali

Book Review: Reframing Migration: Lampedusa, Border Spectacle and Aesthetics of Subversion

Humanitarian Smugglers? The EU Facilitation Directive and the Criminalisation of Civil Society

Social Control and a European ‘Demos’ between Covid-19 and Racism

Rethinking Immigration Detention During and After Covid-19: Insights from Italy

Warehousing Asylum Seekers: Salvini’s Attempt to Dismantle the Italian Reception System

Beyond Deportation: Researching the Control of Outward Mobility Using a Space of Flows Logic

Controlling Migration through De Facto Detention: The Case of the ‘Diciotti’ Italian Ship

Outsourcing European Border Control: Recent Trends in Departures, Deaths and Search and Rescue Activities in the Central Mediterranean

Where Are We Going? Italy (And Europe) at the Crossroads between Xenophobia and Hospitality

Performing Asylum in a Gender Perspective: Women’s Struggles across the European Southern Border

Monitoring Immigration Detention at the Borders of Europe

Dispersing their Lives: Refugees Kept On the Move between Italy and Germany

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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