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detention centres; Greece; refugeesUnauthorised populationUndefinedUndocumentedUNHCRUnited KingdomUniversitiesUSAVenezuelaVictimsVideoViolenceVisasVisual artsVisual representationVolunteeringVulnerabilityWallsWarWest AfricaWindrushWomenWomen's marchWorkshopXenophobiaYouthZemiology More filters Less filters 10 March 2023 Deportation Documents in Spain: Multiple (Social and Legal) Meanings for a Migrant in Transit by: Iker Barbero 9 March 2023 Detention for Irregular Entry and Deportation Practices in Spain before European Integration, 1956-1980 by: Ariela House 11 July 2022 Tragedia en Melilla: Asfixiados Por La Lógica Securitaria De Las Fronteras by: Javier Sepúlveda-Rubio, Elisa García-España 4 July 2022 Letting Cross, Letting Die: “Dark Friday” In Melilla by: Elisa Floristán Millán, Cléo Marmié 1 June 2022 Violence and Bordering on the Margins of the State: A View from South Africa and the Southern Border of Spain 15 March 2022 Death at Sea: Dismantling the Spanish Search and Rescue System 28 October 2021 Foreign Unaccompanied Minors in Street Situation: From “Dangerous Children” to Children in Danger 26 October 2021 Migration Diplomacy in Ceuta: How a 45-Year-Old Conflict Can Hamper EU Border Management 7 October 2021 ‘Regreso’: A Film Reframes the Border Spectacle on Unaccompanied Moroccan Minors at the Moroccan-Spanish Border 19 October 2020 On Border Deaths Management and Ungrievability 21 June 2019 Book Review: Governing Irregular Migration: Bordering Culture, Labour and Security in Spain 20 June 2018 A Toll Instead of a Barrier: A Case Study of Border Performativity in the French-Spanish Intra-EU Border 17 November 2017 Facing (as) the unexpected access to guarded fields: encounters with the Spanish Guardia Civil at a border crossing in Melilla 29 June 2015 How Many Migrants Died Trying to Enter Europe? 8 May 2015 Experiences of Foreign-National Female Prisoners in Spain 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