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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 Load More Top blogs posts this month 1) 29 September 2025 Italy's Borders Immigration Paradox: Rising Numbers, Falling Crime, and the Reality of Exploitation by: Luciano Magaldi Sardella, Matteo Mantuano 2) 8 December 2025 Criminalisation at European Borders and the Role of Artificial Intelligence by: Dr Foteini Kalantzi 3) 3 December 2025 On the perils of the ‘Danish model’ by: Sigrid Corry 4) 10 November 2025 UK's Labour’s Immigration White Paper: Reviewed by: Ananya Kumar-Banerjee 5) 17 September 2025 Deported Without Due Process: How Border Militarization Undermines Constitutional and Human Rights by: Alexandra Wagner
