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13 November 2020

Border Criminologies in Uncertain Times: A Response to the US Election

2 November 2020

Abolition, Reformism, and Summer 2020

11 September 2020

Book Review: Deported to Death: How Drug Violence is Changing Migration on the US-Mexico Border

8 September 2020

The Punishment of Immigrants in Times of Crisis: Evidence from 9/11

22 July 2020

One Month On: Trump and Public Health Securitisation at the Border

22 June 2020

Trump and Crimmigration in the Era of COVID-19

4 June 2020

Crimmigration: A Lens for Public Health Securitisation at the Border?

12 November 2019

Managing Non-Citizens Through the Criminal Justice System: The Mass Prosecution of Migrants Under Operation Streamline

8 November 2019

Book Review: Detain and Deport: The Chaotic U.S. Immigration Enforcement Regime

8 October 2019

The Flores Settlement Agreement and Detention as Deterrence

1 October 2019

‘3 Mexican Countries’: When All Latin American Migrants Become Mexicans

6 September 2019

AMLO’s Political Prisoners: Mexico’s Move to Criminalize Accompaniment and Solidarity with Migrants in Transit

24 July 2019

Florida’s Sanctuary City Ban and the Issue of Required Police-ICE Cooperation

15 April 2019

Transnational Policing, Migration Control, and the Gendered Persecution of Central America’s Youth

8 February 2019

Adopted and Deported, Orphaned and Detained: The Case of Adam Crapser and the 20,000 Deportable Korean Adoptees in the U.S.

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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

Border Criminologies in Uncertain Times: A Response to the US Election

Abolition, Reformism, and Summer 2020

Book Review: Deported to Death: How Drug Violence is Changing Migration on the US-Mexico Border

The Punishment of Immigrants in Times of Crisis: Evidence from 9/11

One Month On: Trump and Public Health Securitisation at the Border

Trump and Crimmigration in the Era of COVID-19

Crimmigration: A Lens for Public Health Securitisation at the Border?

Managing Non-Citizens Through the Criminal Justice System: The Mass Prosecution of Migrants Under Operation Streamline

Book Review: Detain and Deport: The Chaotic U.S. Immigration Enforcement Regime

The Flores Settlement Agreement and Detention as Deterrence

‘3 Mexican Countries’: When All Latin American Migrants Become Mexicans

AMLO’s Political Prisoners: Mexico’s Move to Criminalize Accompaniment and Solidarity with Migrants in Transit

Florida’s Sanctuary City Ban and the Issue of Required Police-ICE Cooperation

Transnational Policing, Migration Control, and the Gendered Persecution of Central America’s Youth

Adopted and Deported, Orphaned and Detained: The Case of Adam Crapser and the 20,000 Deportable Korean Adoptees in the U.S.

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

Border Criminologies in Uncertain Times: A Response to the US Election

Abolition, Reformism, and Summer 2020

Book Review: Deported to Death: How Drug Violence is Changing Migration on the US-Mexico Border

The Punishment of Immigrants in Times of Crisis: Evidence from 9/11

One Month On: Trump and Public Health Securitisation at the Border

Trump and Crimmigration in the Era of COVID-19

Crimmigration: A Lens for Public Health Securitisation at the Border?

Managing Non-Citizens Through the Criminal Justice System: The Mass Prosecution of Migrants Under Operation Streamline

Book Review: Detain and Deport: The Chaotic U.S. Immigration Enforcement Regime

The Flores Settlement Agreement and Detention as Deterrence

‘3 Mexican Countries’: When All Latin American Migrants Become Mexicans

AMLO’s Political Prisoners: Mexico’s Move to Criminalize Accompaniment and Solidarity with Migrants in Transit

Florida’s Sanctuary City Ban and the Issue of Required Police-ICE Cooperation

Transnational Policing, Migration Control, and the Gendered Persecution of Central America’s Youth

Adopted and Deported, Orphaned and Detained: The Case of Adam Crapser and the 20,000 Deportable Korean Adoptees in the U.S.

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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