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15 May 2026

The stethoscope as a tool of border control: resisting the pathogenicity of immigration detention

by: Nicola Cocco, Valentina Marchese, Federico Nicoli, Giulia Russo, Jacopo Testa, Alice Corsaro, Marco Mazzetti

4 May 2023

Creating Sickness and Death: The Health-Related Harms of Australia’s Refugee Externalisation Policies

by: Samantha O’Donnell, Sara Dehm, Claire Loughnan, Jordana Silverstein

17 February 2023

Using Vulnerability-Centred Health Assessment as a Tool for the Differential (De)Valuing of Human Life: The Case of Italian ‘Illegal Decrees’ for Selective Sea Rescues

by: Chiara Denaro, Francesca Esposito

19 June 2019

Australia’s Duty of Care to Detained Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Nauru and Papua New Guinea

1 October 2018

Healthcare in Israel’s Prison Service

15 December 2016

The ‘Hidden’ Story of Disabled Migrants

29 April 2015

Immigrant Health in la jaula

27 April 2015

Deportation Threat, Realities, and Practices in the United States

20 March 2015

Migrant Women’s Health in Spain: A Snapshot of the Consequences of the Royal Decree-Law of Sanitary Regulation 16/2012

8 October 2014

Changes to Healthcare Provision in Britain’s Detention Estate

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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

The stethoscope as a tool of border control: resisting the pathogenicity of immigration detention

Creating Sickness and Death: The Health-Related Harms of Australia’s Refugee Externalisation Policies

Using Vulnerability-Centred Health Assessment as a Tool for the Differential (De)Valuing of Human Life: The Case of Italian ‘Illegal Decrees’ for Selective Sea Rescues

Australia’s Duty of Care to Detained Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Nauru and Papua New Guinea

Healthcare in Israel’s Prison Service

The ‘Hidden’ Story of Disabled Migrants

Immigrant Health in la jaula

Deportation Threat, Realities, and Practices in the United States

Migrant Women’s Health in Spain: A Snapshot of the Consequences of the Royal Decree-Law of Sanitary Regulation 16/2012

Changes to Healthcare Provision in Britain’s Detention Estate

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

The stethoscope as a tool of border control: resisting the pathogenicity of immigration detention

Creating Sickness and Death: The Health-Related Harms of Australia’s Refugee Externalisation Policies

Using Vulnerability-Centred Health Assessment as a Tool for the Differential (De)Valuing of Human Life: The Case of Italian ‘Illegal Decrees’ for Selective Sea Rescues

Australia’s Duty of Care to Detained Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Nauru and Papua New Guinea

Healthcare in Israel’s Prison Service

The ‘Hidden’ Story of Disabled Migrants

Immigrant Health in la jaula

Deportation Threat, Realities, and Practices in the United States

Migrant Women’s Health in Spain: A Snapshot of the Consequences of the Royal Decree-Law of Sanitary Regulation 16/2012

Changes to Healthcare Provision in Britain’s Detention Estate

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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