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Map showing the logarithmic transformation of the total disbursements allocated to individual countries by Norway.

17 November 2025

Descriptive statistics from penality on the move. Part 1: Norwegian Penal Aid

by: Kjersti Lohne, Andreea Ioana Alecu, Katrine Antonsen

8 February 2022

How Detainees Experience and Cope with Time in Immigration Detention Centers

15 February 2019

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

23 January 2019

One of Us or One of Them? Researcher Positionality, Language, And Belonging in All-Foreign Prison

23 June 2016

Research Update: Network Members from the University of Oslo

5 February 2016

Integrate or Return: Staff Friction at Reception Centers

4 February 2016

Finding Professional Satisfaction in Low Status Police Work

3 February 2016

Being Nice, But Not Naive

2 February 2016

Divided Loyalties: Frontex and Police Culture at EU’s External Borders

1 February 2016

Tales of Legitimate Immigration Detention

22 May 2015

The Use of Informants in Immigration Policing

7 February 2014

From The Field: Betrayed by Norway

18 December 2013

The Leverhulme International Network on External Border Control

20 November 2013

The Numbers Game: How Many Women and Children are in Detention in Europe

11 November 2013

Crim/Migration and State Governance: Foreigners in Prison and Detention at Europe’s Northwestern Border

1)

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

Descriptive statistics from penality on the move. Part 1: Norwegian Penal Aid

How Detainees Experience and Cope with Time in Immigration Detention Centers

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

One of Us or One of Them? Researcher Positionality, Language, And Belonging in All-Foreign Prison

Research Update: Network Members from the University of Oslo

Integrate or Return: Staff Friction at Reception Centers

Finding Professional Satisfaction in Low Status Police Work

Being Nice, But Not Naive

Divided Loyalties: Frontex and Police Culture at EU’s External Borders

Tales of Legitimate Immigration Detention

The Use of Informants in Immigration Policing

From The Field: Betrayed by Norway

The Leverhulme International Network on External Border Control

The Numbers Game: How Many Women and Children are in Detention in Europe

Crim/Migration and State Governance: Foreigners in Prison and Detention at Europe’s Northwestern Border

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

Descriptive statistics from penality on the move. Part 1: Norwegian Penal Aid

How Detainees Experience and Cope with Time in Immigration Detention Centers

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

One of Us or One of Them? Researcher Positionality, Language, And Belonging in All-Foreign Prison

Research Update: Network Members from the University of Oslo

Integrate or Return: Staff Friction at Reception Centers

Finding Professional Satisfaction in Low Status Police Work

Being Nice, But Not Naive

Divided Loyalties: Frontex and Police Culture at EU’s External Borders

Tales of Legitimate Immigration Detention

The Use of Informants in Immigration Policing

From The Field: Betrayed by Norway

The Leverhulme International Network on External Border Control

The Numbers Game: How Many Women and Children are in Detention in Europe

Crim/Migration and State Governance: Foreigners in Prison and Detention at Europe’s Northwestern Border

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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