Border Criminologies Blog

Our blog disseminates original research from around the world, first-hand accounts of border control, legal analysis and book reviews. It is part of the Border Criminologies network. The network regularly hosts in-person and online events – sign up to our monthly newsletter to keep up to date.

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26 October 2018

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

22 October 2018

Controlling Migration through De Facto Detention: The Case of the ‘Diciotti’ Italian Ship

19 October 2018

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

8 October 2018

‘This is Not a Place for Children’: The Lives of the Children of Asylum-Seekers in South Tel Aviv

28 September 2018

From Aiding Deportation to Population-Management and Back(?): The Evolving Role of Immigration Detention in Israel

26 September 2018

A Life of Impossible Choices

24 September 2018

Border Control and the Criminalisation of African Asylum Seekers in Israel

23 July 2018

When Border Criminologies Turned 5: Looking back and thinking ahead

18 July 2018

Migration, Human Rights and Fortress Europe: How Far Will European Leaders Go to Protect the EU’s Borders?

27 June 2018

Beyond the Headlines

21 June 2018

Migrants Trapped in the Mexican Vertical Border

15 June 2018

Dispersal Policing as Borderwork in Barcelona

14 June 2018

Border Crossing, Rights Struggles, and Social Transformation

13 June 2018

Transnational Borders and Boundaries: Changing Geographies of Exclusion and Inclusion through Border Regimes

8 June 2018

Book Review: Human Smuggling in the Eastern Mediterranean

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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

3)

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

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

Controlling Migration through De Facto Detention: The Case of the ‘Diciotti’ Italian Ship

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

‘This is Not a Place for Children’: The Lives of the Children of Asylum-Seekers in South Tel Aviv

From Aiding Deportation to Population-Management and Back(?): The Evolving Role of Immigration Detention in Israel

A Life of Impossible Choices

Border Control and the Criminalisation of African Asylum Seekers in Israel

When Border Criminologies Turned 5: Looking back and thinking ahead

Migration, Human Rights and Fortress Europe: How Far Will European Leaders Go to Protect the EU’s Borders?

Beyond the Headlines

Migrants Trapped in the Mexican Vertical Border

Dispersal Policing as Borderwork in Barcelona

Border Crossing, Rights Struggles, and Social Transformation

Transnational Borders and Boundaries: Changing Geographies of Exclusion and Inclusion through Border Regimes

Book Review: Human Smuggling in the Eastern Mediterranean

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

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

Controlling Migration through De Facto Detention: The Case of the ‘Diciotti’ Italian Ship

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

‘This is Not a Place for Children’: The Lives of the Children of Asylum-Seekers in South Tel Aviv

From Aiding Deportation to Population-Management and Back(?): The Evolving Role of Immigration Detention in Israel

A Life of Impossible Choices

Border Control and the Criminalisation of African Asylum Seekers in Israel

When Border Criminologies Turned 5: Looking back and thinking ahead

Migration, Human Rights and Fortress Europe: How Far Will European Leaders Go to Protect the EU’s Borders?

Beyond the Headlines

Migrants Trapped in the Mexican Vertical Border

Dispersal Policing as Borderwork in Barcelona

Border Crossing, Rights Struggles, and Social Transformation

Transnational Borders and Boundaries: Changing Geographies of Exclusion and Inclusion through Border Regimes

Book Review: Human Smuggling in the Eastern Mediterranean

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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