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4 April 2025

Rescued and Contained: Migrant mothers, smuggling, and the 'hidden hell' of the Tunisia-Libya borderlands

by: Ahlam Chemlali

25 May 2022

Violent Ties: Kinship, Migration, and the Continuity of Reproductive Injustice for Central American Women

3 March 2022

Seeing Asylum in Tales of Lived Experience

8 March 2021

Refugee Women Connect Take Over: International Women’s Day!

8 March 2021

What I would build

10 February 2021

Live and Let Die: The Hostile Environment’s Colonial Logic

29 July 2020

Intersectional Women in the Borderlands

8 March 2019

The Experiences of Women on the Migration Pathway – And the Stories We Tell Ourselves

10 October 2018

Resisting Everyday Border Policies and Practices: Eritrean Asylum Seeking Women in Israel

22 June 2018

Performing Asylum in a Gender Perspective: Women’s Struggles across the European Southern Border

2 May 2018

Women’s Imprisonment and the Experiences of Foreign Nationals

8 March 2018

International Women’s Day: As We March On

16 February 2018

Book Review: Living in Refugee Camps in Berlin

19 July 2017

Foreign and Misunderstood: The Challenges Faced by Migrant and Refugee Women Victims of S/GBV in Malta

17 July 2017

Challenges and Expectations of Safeguarding and Anti-Trafficking Initiatives at the UK Border

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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

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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

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

Rescued and Contained: Migrant mothers, smuggling, and the 'hidden hell' of the Tunisia-Libya borderlands

Violent Ties: Kinship, Migration, and the Continuity of Reproductive Injustice for Central American Women

Seeing Asylum in Tales of Lived Experience

Refugee Women Connect Take Over: International Women’s Day!

What I would build

Live and Let Die: The Hostile Environment’s Colonial Logic

Intersectional Women in the Borderlands

The Experiences of Women on the Migration Pathway – And the Stories We Tell Ourselves

Resisting Everyday Border Policies and Practices: Eritrean Asylum Seeking Women in Israel

Performing Asylum in a Gender Perspective: Women’s Struggles across the European Southern Border

Women’s Imprisonment and the Experiences of Foreign Nationals

International Women’s Day: As We March On

Book Review: Living in Refugee Camps in Berlin

Foreign and Misunderstood: The Challenges Faced by Migrant and Refugee Women Victims of S/GBV in Malta

Challenges and Expectations of Safeguarding and Anti-Trafficking Initiatives at the UK 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

Rescued and Contained: Migrant mothers, smuggling, and the 'hidden hell' of the Tunisia-Libya borderlands

Violent Ties: Kinship, Migration, and the Continuity of Reproductive Injustice for Central American Women

Seeing Asylum in Tales of Lived Experience

Refugee Women Connect Take Over: International Women’s Day!

What I would build

Live and Let Die: The Hostile Environment’s Colonial Logic

Intersectional Women in the Borderlands

The Experiences of Women on the Migration Pathway – And the Stories We Tell Ourselves

Resisting Everyday Border Policies and Practices: Eritrean Asylum Seeking Women in Israel

Performing Asylum in a Gender Perspective: Women’s Struggles across the European Southern Border

Women’s Imprisonment and the Experiences of Foreign Nationals

International Women’s Day: As We March On

Book Review: Living in Refugee Camps in Berlin

Foreign and Misunderstood: The Challenges Faced by Migrant and Refugee Women Victims of S/GBV in Malta

Challenges and Expectations of Safeguarding and Anti-Trafficking Initiatives at the UK 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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