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3 September 2019

Britain’s Juxtaposed borders: The Human Consequences

2 July 2019

Solidarity Crimes

9 April 2019

Guilty Before Trial: The Image of the Criminal Migrant

8 February 2019

Adopted and Deported, Orphaned and Detained: The Case of Adam Crapser and the 20,000 Deportable Korean Adoptees in the U.S.

26 July 2018

Twenty Most Read Blog Posts 2013-2018

6 June 2018

Refugee Crisis: Three Perspectives on the Makings of a Crisis

29 May 2018

Dispersing their Lives: Refugees Kept On the Move between Italy and Germany

19 April 2018

Pushing Migrants Back to Libya, Persecuting Rescue NGOs: The End of the Humanitarian Turn (Part II)

18 April 2018

Pushing Migrants Back to Libya, Persecuting Rescue NGOs: The End of the Humanitarian Turn (Part I)

20 March 2018

The European Refugee Crisis: Crisis for Whom?

16 February 2018

Book Review: Living in Refugee Camps in Berlin

24 November 2017

Book Review: U.S. Media and Migration-Refugee Oral Histories

27 October 2017

Mind The Gap! A Closer Look at the Inconsistencies in the EU-Turkey Statement Progress Reports

25 September 2017

The Circuits of Financial-Humanitarianism in the Greek Migration Laboratory

13 September 2017

Symbolic Violence in Germany: Defining a Nation through Exclusion and Expulsion

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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

Britain’s Juxtaposed borders: The Human Consequences

Solidarity Crimes

Guilty Before Trial: The Image of the Criminal Migrant

Adopted and Deported, Orphaned and Detained: The Case of Adam Crapser and the 20,000 Deportable Korean Adoptees in the U.S.

Twenty Most Read Blog Posts 2013-2018

Refugee Crisis: Three Perspectives on the Makings of a Crisis

Dispersing their Lives: Refugees Kept On the Move between Italy and Germany

Pushing Migrants Back to Libya, Persecuting Rescue NGOs: The End of the Humanitarian Turn (Part II)

Pushing Migrants Back to Libya, Persecuting Rescue NGOs: The End of the Humanitarian Turn (Part I)

The European Refugee Crisis: Crisis for Whom?

Book Review: Living in Refugee Camps in Berlin

Book Review: U.S. Media and Migration-Refugee Oral Histories

Mind The Gap! A Closer Look at the Inconsistencies in the EU-Turkey Statement Progress Reports

The Circuits of Financial-Humanitarianism in the Greek Migration Laboratory

Symbolic Violence in Germany: Defining a Nation through Exclusion and Expulsion

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

Britain’s Juxtaposed borders: The Human Consequences

Solidarity Crimes

Guilty Before Trial: The Image of the Criminal Migrant

Adopted and Deported, Orphaned and Detained: The Case of Adam Crapser and the 20,000 Deportable Korean Adoptees in the U.S.

Twenty Most Read Blog Posts 2013-2018

Refugee Crisis: Three Perspectives on the Makings of a Crisis

Dispersing their Lives: Refugees Kept On the Move between Italy and Germany

Pushing Migrants Back to Libya, Persecuting Rescue NGOs: The End of the Humanitarian Turn (Part II)

Pushing Migrants Back to Libya, Persecuting Rescue NGOs: The End of the Humanitarian Turn (Part I)

The European Refugee Crisis: Crisis for Whom?

Book Review: Living in Refugee Camps in Berlin

Book Review: U.S. Media and Migration-Refugee Oral Histories

Mind The Gap! A Closer Look at the Inconsistencies in the EU-Turkey Statement Progress Reports

The Circuits of Financial-Humanitarianism in the Greek Migration Laboratory

Symbolic Violence in Germany: Defining a Nation through Exclusion and Expulsion

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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