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2 September 2024

Les enfants de la Clarée: why the Facilitators package is incompatible with the Charter of Fundamental Rights

by: Stefano Zirulia

10 May 2023

The Criminalisation of Migrant Solidarity Actors in the British Tabloid Press

by: Sébastien Bachelet, Maria Hagan

14 April 2023

Double Book Review: Migrants and Refugees at UK Borders: Hostility and ‘Unmaking’ the Human and Everyday Border Struggles: Segregation and Solidarity in the UK and Calais

by: Victoria Taylor

25 February 2022

Everyday Violence in Informal Camps: Distributing Materials Using the Queue

23 February 2022

Psychological Disorder, Stress and Suicidal Tendency Among Sudanese Refugees in France

11 October 2021

Criminalisation and Humanitarian Border Policing in the Channel

1 April 2021

Detention of Undocumented Migrants at Sea

12 February 2021

Experimenting, Exporting and Outsourcing the ‘Hostile Environment’: A Study of Immigration Control at the UK-France Frontier

2 February 2021

Deadly Crossings and the Militarisation of Britain’s Borders

1 July 2020

Confined to the Border: Covid-19 and the UK-France Border Controls

18 September 2019

Three Years On, Unaccompanied Minors Still in Legal Limbo

3 September 2019

Britain’s Juxtaposed borders: The Human Consequences

20 June 2018

A Toll Instead of a Barrier: A Case Study of Border Performativity in the French-Spanish Intra-EU Border

10 May 2018

Cut-Price Justice at the French National Asylum Court

16 November 2017

‘Studying up’ and getting access to the deportation apparatus in France

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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

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

Les enfants de la Clarée: why the Facilitators package is incompatible with the Charter of Fundamental Rights

The Criminalisation of Migrant Solidarity Actors in the British Tabloid Press

Double Book Review: Migrants and Refugees at UK Borders: Hostility and ‘Unmaking’ the Human and Everyday Border Struggles: Segregation and Solidarity in the UK and Calais

Everyday Violence in Informal Camps: Distributing Materials Using the Queue

Psychological Disorder, Stress and Suicidal Tendency Among Sudanese Refugees in France

Criminalisation and Humanitarian Border Policing in the Channel

Detention of Undocumented Migrants at Sea

Experimenting, Exporting and Outsourcing the ‘Hostile Environment’: A Study of Immigration Control at the UK-France Frontier

Deadly Crossings and the Militarisation of Britain’s Borders

Confined to the Border: Covid-19 and the UK-France Border Controls

Three Years On, Unaccompanied Minors Still in Legal Limbo

Britain’s Juxtaposed borders: The Human Consequences

A Toll Instead of a Barrier: A Case Study of Border Performativity in the French-Spanish Intra-EU Border

Cut-Price Justice at the French National Asylum Court

‘Studying up’ and getting access to the deportation apparatus in France

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

Les enfants de la Clarée: why the Facilitators package is incompatible with the Charter of Fundamental Rights

The Criminalisation of Migrant Solidarity Actors in the British Tabloid Press

Double Book Review: Migrants and Refugees at UK Borders: Hostility and ‘Unmaking’ the Human and Everyday Border Struggles: Segregation and Solidarity in the UK and Calais

Everyday Violence in Informal Camps: Distributing Materials Using the Queue

Psychological Disorder, Stress and Suicidal Tendency Among Sudanese Refugees in France

Criminalisation and Humanitarian Border Policing in the Channel

Detention of Undocumented Migrants at Sea

Experimenting, Exporting and Outsourcing the ‘Hostile Environment’: A Study of Immigration Control at the UK-France Frontier

Deadly Crossings and the Militarisation of Britain’s Borders

Confined to the Border: Covid-19 and the UK-France Border Controls

Three Years On, Unaccompanied Minors Still in Legal Limbo

Britain’s Juxtaposed borders: The Human Consequences

A Toll Instead of a Barrier: A Case Study of Border Performativity in the French-Spanish Intra-EU Border

Cut-Price Justice at the French National Asylum Court

‘Studying up’ and getting access to the deportation apparatus in France

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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