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6 July 2021

Immigration Enforcement, Sanctuary Policies and Domestic Violence

26 March 2021

Book Review: Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump

1 February 2017

Border Criminology in the Trump Era – Words Matter Now, More than Ever Before

19 October 2016

Shining a Spotlight on the 'Invisible': Why Detention Demands Creative Campaigning

17 February 2016

Bonfire of the ‘Illegalities’? China’s New Immigration Law and Regulating ‘Illegal Work’

1 February 2016

Tales of Legitimate Immigration Detention

25 June 2015

Remote Adjudication in Immigration

27 May 2015

The Devastating Impacts of Forced Return: One Couple’s Story

22 May 2015

The Use of Informants in Immigration Policing

21 May 2015

Denying Migrants the 'Right to Rent': Enlisting Landlords in Immigration Surveillance

20 May 2015

The Boundaries of Belonging and the Immigration Policy Patchwork

19 May 2015

Not Making it in the Netherlands: Excluding Irregular Immigrants to the Max

5 May 2015

‘From One Police State to Another’: Stories of Deportation from the United States to El Salvador

30 April 2015

‘A Recession-Proof Industry’: Reagan’s Immigration Crisis and the Birth of the Neoliberal Security State

29 April 2015

Immigrant Health in la jaula

1)

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

4)

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

Immigration Enforcement, Sanctuary Policies and Domestic Violence

Book Review: Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump

Border Criminology in the Trump Era – Words Matter Now, More than Ever Before

Shining a Spotlight on the 'Invisible': Why Detention Demands Creative Campaigning

Bonfire of the ‘Illegalities’? China’s New Immigration Law and Regulating ‘Illegal Work’

Tales of Legitimate Immigration Detention

Remote Adjudication in Immigration

The Devastating Impacts of Forced Return: One Couple’s Story

The Use of Informants in Immigration Policing

Denying Migrants the 'Right to Rent': Enlisting Landlords in Immigration Surveillance

The Boundaries of Belonging and the Immigration Policy Patchwork

Not Making it in the Netherlands: Excluding Irregular Immigrants to the Max

‘From One Police State to Another’: Stories of Deportation from the United States to El Salvador

‘A Recession-Proof Industry’: Reagan’s Immigration Crisis and the Birth of the Neoliberal Security State

Immigrant Health in la jaula

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

Immigration Enforcement, Sanctuary Policies and Domestic Violence

Book Review: Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump

Border Criminology in the Trump Era – Words Matter Now, More than Ever Before

Shining a Spotlight on the 'Invisible': Why Detention Demands Creative Campaigning

Bonfire of the ‘Illegalities’? China’s New Immigration Law and Regulating ‘Illegal Work’

Tales of Legitimate Immigration Detention

Remote Adjudication in Immigration

The Devastating Impacts of Forced Return: One Couple’s Story

The Use of Informants in Immigration Policing

Denying Migrants the 'Right to Rent': Enlisting Landlords in Immigration Surveillance

The Boundaries of Belonging and the Immigration Policy Patchwork

Not Making it in the Netherlands: Excluding Irregular Immigrants to the Max

‘From One Police State to Another’: Stories of Deportation from the United States to El Salvador

‘A Recession-Proof Industry’: Reagan’s Immigration Crisis and the Birth of the Neoliberal Security State

Immigrant Health in la jaula

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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