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3 October 2017

Dangerous Borderlands: Human Rights for Displaced People on the French-Italian Border

14 July 2017

Médecins Sans Frontières: ‘Calais has become a cage in a jungle’

26 June 2017

Unprotected, Unguided, Uncertain: Experiences of Minors in Dunkirk

28 April 2017

From Solidar Passeurs to Smugglers: Dismantling Solidarity Through Criminal Convictions

18 July 2016

British Border Control on the French North Coast

24 February 2016

Juxtaposed Border Controls and Penal Power on the French North Coast

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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

Dangerous Borderlands: Human Rights for Displaced People on the French-Italian Border

Médecins Sans Frontières: ‘Calais has become a cage in a jungle’

Unprotected, Unguided, Uncertain: Experiences of Minors in Dunkirk

From Solidar Passeurs to Smugglers: Dismantling Solidarity Through Criminal Convictions

British Border Control on the French North Coast

Juxtaposed Border Controls and Penal Power on the French North Coast

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

Dangerous Borderlands: Human Rights for Displaced People on the French-Italian Border

Médecins Sans Frontières: ‘Calais has become a cage in a jungle’

Unprotected, Unguided, Uncertain: Experiences of Minors in Dunkirk

From Solidar Passeurs to Smugglers: Dismantling Solidarity Through Criminal Convictions

British Border Control on the French North Coast

Juxtaposed Border Controls and Penal Power on the French North Coast

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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