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22 May 2018

Migrant Digitalities and the Politics of Dispersal: An Introduction

8 May 2018

How Do Borders ‘Cross’ Roma?

1 March 2018

Guilt through Punishment: Border Spectacles, State Violence and Public Attitudes towards Refugees and Displaced People

5 February 2018

Europe’s Waiting Room for Refugees: Negotiating Borders and Performing Resilience in Serbia

26 January 2018

Book Discussion Week: Author’s Response

25 January 2018

Enrolment and Exclusion: Juggling with the Paradoxes of the Welfare State

24 January 2018

The Border of Punishment: Notes on Vanessa Barker´s Nordic Nationalism and Penal Order: Walling the Welfare State

23 January 2018

In the Coercive Belly of the Welfare State

15 December 2017

Italy Strikes Back Again: A Push-back's Firsthand Account

14 December 2017

Studying conflict and media: Designing a sociological research project on contested territories

22 November 2017

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

17 November 2017

Facing (as) the unexpected access to guarded fields: encounters with the Spanish Guardia Civil at a border crossing in Melilla

13 October 2017

Book Review: The European Commission and the Transformation of EU Borders

12 October 2017

Accountability at the U.S.-Mexico Border: How Far Do Rights Extend?

8 May 2017

Economic Migrants and Asylum Seekers in Ten Fingers: Some Reflections on Eurodac and Border Control

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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

Migrant Digitalities and the Politics of Dispersal: An Introduction

How Do Borders ‘Cross’ Roma?

Guilt through Punishment: Border Spectacles, State Violence and Public Attitudes towards Refugees and Displaced People

Europe’s Waiting Room for Refugees: Negotiating Borders and Performing Resilience in Serbia

Book Discussion Week: Author’s Response

Enrolment and Exclusion: Juggling with the Paradoxes of the Welfare State

The Border of Punishment: Notes on Vanessa Barker´s Nordic Nationalism and Penal Order: Walling the Welfare State

In the Coercive Belly of the Welfare State

Italy Strikes Back Again: A Push-back's Firsthand Account

Studying conflict and media: Designing a sociological research project on contested territories

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

Facing (as) the unexpected access to guarded fields: encounters with the Spanish Guardia Civil at a border crossing in Melilla

Book Review: The European Commission and the Transformation of EU Borders

Accountability at the U.S.-Mexico Border: How Far Do Rights Extend?

Economic Migrants and Asylum Seekers in Ten Fingers: Some Reflections on Eurodac and Border Control

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

Migrant Digitalities and the Politics of Dispersal: An Introduction

How Do Borders ‘Cross’ Roma?

Guilt through Punishment: Border Spectacles, State Violence and Public Attitudes towards Refugees and Displaced People

Europe’s Waiting Room for Refugees: Negotiating Borders and Performing Resilience in Serbia

Book Discussion Week: Author’s Response

Enrolment and Exclusion: Juggling with the Paradoxes of the Welfare State

The Border of Punishment: Notes on Vanessa Barker´s Nordic Nationalism and Penal Order: Walling the Welfare State

In the Coercive Belly of the Welfare State

Italy Strikes Back Again: A Push-back's Firsthand Account

Studying conflict and media: Designing a sociological research project on contested territories

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

Facing (as) the unexpected access to guarded fields: encounters with the Spanish Guardia Civil at a border crossing in Melilla

Book Review: The European Commission and the Transformation of EU Borders

Accountability at the U.S.-Mexico Border: How Far Do Rights Extend?

Economic Migrants and Asylum Seekers in Ten Fingers: Some Reflections on Eurodac and Border Control

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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