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5 September 2025

The hidden harms of the NRM: How the UK’s anti-slavery system harms the children it claims to protect

by: Lucia Messent

10 February 2017

Book Review: Human Trafficking: Contexts and Connections to Conventional Crime

20 January 2017

Book Review: Modern Slavery: The Margins of Freedom

5 December 2016

Human Trafficking: The Rise (and Fall?) of the Strasbourg Case Law

12 September 2016

The Story of ‘Missing Children’: Unaccompanied Minors in the Prevailing Refugee Crisis

9 September 2016

Book Review: Responding to Human Trafficking: Sex Gender and Culture in the Law

26 July 2016

Lost or Gained in Translation? The Use of Interpreters during Qualitative, Semi-Structured Interviews

14 September 2015

Female Traffickers and Criminal Justice Responses

19 June 2015

Gender, Migration, ‘Trafficking’ and the Troublesome Relationship between Agency and Force

18 June 2015

Book Review: Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States

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

3 December 2014

Unaccompanied Minors in Greece: Passing on the Responsibility

8 May 2014

But What about Trafficking?

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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

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 hidden harms of the NRM: How the UK’s anti-slavery system harms the children it claims to protect

Book Review: Human Trafficking: Contexts and Connections to Conventional Crime

Book Review: Modern Slavery: The Margins of Freedom

Human Trafficking: The Rise (and Fall?) of the Strasbourg Case Law

The Story of ‘Missing Children’: Unaccompanied Minors in the Prevailing Refugee Crisis

Book Review: Responding to Human Trafficking: Sex Gender and Culture in the Law

Lost or Gained in Translation? The Use of Interpreters during Qualitative, Semi-Structured Interviews

Female Traffickers and Criminal Justice Responses

Gender, Migration, ‘Trafficking’ and the Troublesome Relationship between Agency and Force

Book Review: Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States

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

Widening Participation, Consolidating Research: Developments on the Blog

Unaccompanied Minors in Greece: Passing on the Responsibility

But What about Trafficking?

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 hidden harms of the NRM: How the UK’s anti-slavery system harms the children it claims to protect

Book Review: Human Trafficking: Contexts and Connections to Conventional Crime

Book Review: Modern Slavery: The Margins of Freedom

Human Trafficking: The Rise (and Fall?) of the Strasbourg Case Law

The Story of ‘Missing Children’: Unaccompanied Minors in the Prevailing Refugee Crisis

Book Review: Responding to Human Trafficking: Sex Gender and Culture in the Law

Lost or Gained in Translation? The Use of Interpreters during Qualitative, Semi-Structured Interviews

Female Traffickers and Criminal Justice Responses

Gender, Migration, ‘Trafficking’ and the Troublesome Relationship between Agency and Force

Book Review: Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States

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

Widening Participation, Consolidating Research: Developments on the Blog

Unaccompanied Minors in Greece: Passing on the Responsibility

But What about Trafficking?

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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