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19 November 2025

Descriptive statistics from penality on the move. Part 2: Swedish Penal Aid

by: Katrine Antonsen, Kjersti Lohne, Andreea Ioana Alecu

20 January 2021

A ‘Benevolent Border’? Policing Right-Wing Protest in Sweden’s Suburbs

13 July 2020

Detained and Disregarded: How COVID-19 Has Affected Detained and Deportable Migrants in Sweden

15 February 2019

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

10 September 2018

Last Night in Sweden

26 January 2018

Book Discussion Week: Author’s Response

25 January 2018

Enrolment and Exclusion: Juggling with the Paradoxes of the Welfare State

24 January 2018

The Border of Punishment: Notes on Vanessa Barker´s Nordic Nationalism and Penal Order: Walling the Welfare State

23 January 2018

In the Coercive Belly of the Welfare State

13 November 2017

Access to Interviewees or Access in Interviews

10 May 2017

A Temporary Asylum Law and Secret Legal Cases: The Swedish Migration Bureaucracy and its Exceptions

3 April 2017

Deportation in Focus: The Paradox of Claiming to Safeguard Deportees’ Psychosocial Wellbeing

26 January 2017

Women’s Global March on Washington, Reporting from Stockholm

22 June 2016

Research Update: Vanessa Barker

17 February 2015

Suspicious Minds and Unwelcome Researchers: Obstacles Encountered When Researching Forced Return in Sweden

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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

Descriptive statistics from penality on the move. Part 2: Swedish Penal Aid

A ‘Benevolent Border’? Policing Right-Wing Protest in Sweden’s Suburbs

Detained and Disregarded: How COVID-19 Has Affected Detained and Deportable Migrants in Sweden

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

Last Night in Sweden

Book Discussion Week: Author’s Response

Enrolment and Exclusion: Juggling with the Paradoxes of the Welfare State

The Border of Punishment: Notes on Vanessa Barker´s Nordic Nationalism and Penal Order: Walling the Welfare State

In the Coercive Belly of the Welfare State

Access to Interviewees or Access in Interviews

A Temporary Asylum Law and Secret Legal Cases: The Swedish Migration Bureaucracy and its Exceptions

Deportation in Focus: The Paradox of Claiming to Safeguard Deportees’ Psychosocial Wellbeing

Women’s Global March on Washington, Reporting from Stockholm

Research Update: Vanessa Barker

Suspicious Minds and Unwelcome Researchers: Obstacles Encountered When Researching Forced Return in Sweden

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EU ‘Deportation Regulation’: a massive expansion of immigration detention

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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

Descriptive statistics from penality on the move. Part 2: Swedish Penal Aid

A ‘Benevolent Border’? Policing Right-Wing Protest in Sweden’s Suburbs

Detained and Disregarded: How COVID-19 Has Affected Detained and Deportable Migrants in Sweden

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

Last Night in Sweden

Book Discussion Week: Author’s Response

Enrolment and Exclusion: Juggling with the Paradoxes of the Welfare State

The Border of Punishment: Notes on Vanessa Barker´s Nordic Nationalism and Penal Order: Walling the Welfare State

In the Coercive Belly of the Welfare State

Access to Interviewees or Access in Interviews

A Temporary Asylum Law and Secret Legal Cases: The Swedish Migration Bureaucracy and its Exceptions

Deportation in Focus: The Paradox of Claiming to Safeguard Deportees’ Psychosocial Wellbeing

Women’s Global March on Washington, Reporting from Stockholm

Research Update: Vanessa Barker

Suspicious Minds and Unwelcome Researchers: Obstacles Encountered When Researching Forced Return in Sweden

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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