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6 September 2019

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

24 June 2019

The Limits of Solidarity: Refugee Dislocations and Assistance

15 April 2019

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

10 December 2018

Asylum Processing and Waitlists at the US-Mexico Border

5 December 2018

From the Field: Desperate Spaces of Survival: Clandestine Migration on the Arizona-Sonora Border

26 October 2018

Book Review: Contraband Corridor: Making a Living at the Mexico-Guatemala Border

19 October 2018

Book Review: Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

27 June 2018

Beyond the Headlines

21 June 2018

Migrants Trapped in the Mexican Vertical Border

22 November 2017

Volunteers Work to Reduce the Number of Fatalities along the US-Mexico Border

21 July 2017

Land Marks: Scenes from a Borderscape

25 January 2017

Where do we go from here? A Personal Chronicle of the US Election

7 November 2016

Documenting the Disappearances of Deportation

21 October 2016

Book Review: The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail

6 May 2015

Welcome Home? Deportation to El Salvador

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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

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

The Limits of Solidarity: Refugee Dislocations and Assistance

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

Asylum Processing and Waitlists at the US-Mexico Border

From the Field: Desperate Spaces of Survival: Clandestine Migration on the Arizona-Sonora Border

Book Review: Contraband Corridor: Making a Living at the Mexico-Guatemala Border

Book Review: Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Beyond the Headlines

Migrants Trapped in the Mexican Vertical Border

Volunteers Work to Reduce the Number of Fatalities along the US-Mexico Border

Land Marks: Scenes from a Borderscape

Where do we go from here? A Personal Chronicle of the US Election

Documenting the Disappearances of Deportation

Book Review: The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail

Welcome Home? Deportation to El Salvador

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

With the support of

Border Criminologies Blog

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

The Limits of Solidarity: Refugee Dislocations and Assistance

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

Asylum Processing and Waitlists at the US-Mexico Border

From the Field: Desperate Spaces of Survival: Clandestine Migration on the Arizona-Sonora Border

Book Review: Contraband Corridor: Making a Living at the Mexico-Guatemala Border

Book Review: Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Beyond the Headlines

Migrants Trapped in the Mexican Vertical Border

Volunteers Work to Reduce the Number of Fatalities along the US-Mexico Border

Land Marks: Scenes from a Borderscape

Where do we go from here? A Personal Chronicle of the US Election

Documenting the Disappearances of Deportation

Book Review: The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail

Welcome Home? Deportation to El Salvador

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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