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2 June 2023

The Subaltern Can Speak: Forced Migrants in Kenya’s Kalobeyei Settlement

by: Felicity Okoth

26 May 2023

The Coloniality of Encampment and Deportation as a Mode of Mobility Governance

by: Clayton Boeyink, Nina Sahraoui, Elsa Tyszler

13 April 2023

Give Refugees Access to the Agreements that Govern Them

by: Maja Janmyr, M Sanjeeb Hossain, Lewis Turner

4 April 2023

They Told Me to Leave the Flat. They Didn't Tell Me Why

by: Suzanne Fossan, Andrea Noseda

25 February 2022

Everyday Violence in Informal Camps: Distributing Materials Using the Queue

27 November 2020

Book Review: The Jungle: Calais’s Camps and Migrants

12 June 2020

Human Rights Violations of Refugee Populations in Lebanon Amidst the Covid-19 Outbreak

15 October 2018

Mental Health in Displacement – A Widespread Yet Largely Overlooked Crisis

16 February 2018

Book Review: Living in Refugee Camps in Berlin

5 February 2018

Europe’s Waiting Room for Refugees: Negotiating Borders and Performing Resilience in Serbia

3 October 2017

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

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

19 July 2017

Foreign and Misunderstood: The Challenges Faced by Migrant and Refugee Women Victims of S/GBV in Malta

14 July 2017

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

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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

The Subaltern Can Speak: Forced Migrants in Kenya’s Kalobeyei Settlement

The Coloniality of Encampment and Deportation as a Mode of Mobility Governance

Give Refugees Access to the Agreements that Govern Them

They Told Me to Leave the Flat. They Didn't Tell Me Why

Everyday Violence in Informal Camps: Distributing Materials Using the Queue

Book Review: The Jungle: Calais’s Camps and Migrants

Human Rights Violations of Refugee Populations in Lebanon Amidst the Covid-19 Outbreak

Mental Health in Displacement – A Widespread Yet Largely Overlooked Crisis

Book Review: Living in Refugee Camps in Berlin

Europe’s Waiting Room for Refugees: Negotiating Borders and Performing Resilience in Serbia

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

The Circuits of Financial-Humanitarianism in the Greek Migration Laboratory

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

Foreign and Misunderstood: The Challenges Faced by Migrant and Refugee Women Victims of S/GBV in Malta

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

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

The Subaltern Can Speak: Forced Migrants in Kenya’s Kalobeyei Settlement

The Coloniality of Encampment and Deportation as a Mode of Mobility Governance

Give Refugees Access to the Agreements that Govern Them

They Told Me to Leave the Flat. They Didn't Tell Me Why

Everyday Violence in Informal Camps: Distributing Materials Using the Queue

Book Review: The Jungle: Calais’s Camps and Migrants

Human Rights Violations of Refugee Populations in Lebanon Amidst the Covid-19 Outbreak

Mental Health in Displacement – A Widespread Yet Largely Overlooked Crisis

Book Review: Living in Refugee Camps in Berlin

Europe’s Waiting Room for Refugees: Negotiating Borders and Performing Resilience in Serbia

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

The Circuits of Financial-Humanitarianism in the Greek Migration Laboratory

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

Foreign and Misunderstood: The Challenges Faced by Migrant and Refugee Women Victims of S/GBV in Malta

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

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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