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3 March 2023

No Place Like (The) Home(Office): Unaccompanied Children And Legal Parentage

by: Shona Minson

20 December 2022

Diplomatic Ties, Financial Incentives and a Narrowing of International Legal Obligations: A Reading of the UK High Court’s Decision on the ‘Rwanda Policy’

by: Nicola Palmer

23 November 2022

Reflecting on Deaths in the Channel: One Year On

by: Ali Ghaderi, Victoria Taylor

12 October 2022

Quasi-Detention: The Expansion of Dehumanising Border Spaces

by: Sophie Cartwright

26 May 2022

Reconsidering Asylum: Is it for those who need protection?

10 May 2022

‘Traded Like Commodities and Transferred Abroad for Processing’: Legal and Political Claims Against the UK-Rwanda Deal

4 May 2022

Aliens Behind Bars: The Punishment and Human Rights of Foreign National Prisoners in England & Wales

2 May 2022

The Tried and Failed Business of Exporting Asylum

28 April 2022

Why Rwanda? Border Control and Transnational Penal Power in an Unequal World

19 April 2022

Modelling UK Reception on Greece’s Failed Reception System

15 April 2022

The Border is a Colonial Wound: The Rwanda Deal and State Trafficking in People

14 April 2022

With The Rwanda Deportation Plan British Asylum Policy Moves Firmly On To The Terrain Of The Far Right

8 March 2022

Intensifying Everyday Cruelties in the UK Asylum System: An Analysis Based on Sudanese People’s Experience

9 December 2021

Don’t Pass Go: Brexit, Covid-19 and the Rising Numbers of Romanians Stopped at the UK’s Borders

16 November 2021

Responding to Human Trafficking: Challenges Faced by Frontline Practitioners in England

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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

No Place Like (The) Home(Office): Unaccompanied Children And Legal Parentage

Diplomatic Ties, Financial Incentives and a Narrowing of International Legal Obligations: A Reading of the UK High Court’s Decision on the ‘Rwanda Policy’

Reflecting on Deaths in the Channel: One Year On

Quasi-Detention: The Expansion of Dehumanising Border Spaces

Reconsidering Asylum: Is it for those who need protection?

‘Traded Like Commodities and Transferred Abroad for Processing’: Legal and Political Claims Against the UK-Rwanda Deal

Aliens Behind Bars: The Punishment and Human Rights of Foreign National Prisoners in England & Wales

The Tried and Failed Business of Exporting Asylum

Why Rwanda? Border Control and Transnational Penal Power in an Unequal World

Modelling UK Reception on Greece’s Failed Reception System

The Border is a Colonial Wound: The Rwanda Deal and State Trafficking in People

With The Rwanda Deportation Plan British Asylum Policy Moves Firmly On To The Terrain Of The Far Right

Intensifying Everyday Cruelties in the UK Asylum System: An Analysis Based on Sudanese People’s Experience

Don’t Pass Go: Brexit, Covid-19 and the Rising Numbers of Romanians Stopped at the UK’s Borders

Responding to Human Trafficking: Challenges Faced by Frontline Practitioners in England

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

No Place Like (The) Home(Office): Unaccompanied Children And Legal Parentage

Diplomatic Ties, Financial Incentives and a Narrowing of International Legal Obligations: A Reading of the UK High Court’s Decision on the ‘Rwanda Policy’

Reflecting on Deaths in the Channel: One Year On

Quasi-Detention: The Expansion of Dehumanising Border Spaces

Reconsidering Asylum: Is it for those who need protection?

‘Traded Like Commodities and Transferred Abroad for Processing’: Legal and Political Claims Against the UK-Rwanda Deal

Aliens Behind Bars: The Punishment and Human Rights of Foreign National Prisoners in England & Wales

The Tried and Failed Business of Exporting Asylum

Why Rwanda? Border Control and Transnational Penal Power in an Unequal World

Modelling UK Reception on Greece’s Failed Reception System

The Border is a Colonial Wound: The Rwanda Deal and State Trafficking in People

With The Rwanda Deportation Plan British Asylum Policy Moves Firmly On To The Terrain Of The Far Right

Intensifying Everyday Cruelties in the UK Asylum System: An Analysis Based on Sudanese People’s Experience

Don’t Pass Go: Brexit, Covid-19 and the Rising Numbers of Romanians Stopped at the UK’s Borders

Responding to Human Trafficking: Challenges Faced by Frontline Practitioners in England

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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