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8 December 2017

Egypt: The Escape Portal

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7 December 2017

Complying with what? Problematising the notion of non-compliance in the UK immigration detention

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5 December 2017

The Search for Agency and Hope in the Face of Forced Removal

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4 December 2017

Maintaining Distance, Producing Indifference: Interactions between Staff and Detainees in Swiss Prisons Used for Immigration Detention

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1 December 2017

Working in Immigration Detention in Italy: Navigating the Tensions Between Security and Humanity, Repression and Compassion, Inside and Outside

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28 November 2017

What's in A Name? Exploring the Role of Law and Bureaucracy in The Everyday Construction of Holot, an 'Open Detention Facility' for 'Infiltrators' in Israel

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27 November 2017

Exploring the Everyday of Immigration Detention

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9 November 2017

Access to a Hot Field: A Self-Reflexive Account of Research in the Moria Camp, Lesvos

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8 November 2017

Let the Right One In – On Migration Authorities’ Resistance to Research

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1 November 2017

‘From the Field’: Thoughts on BBC Panorama and Brook House IRC

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16 October 2017

Secondary Trauma and Research

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15 September 2017

From the Field: Locking and Unlocking Detention

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6 September 2017

Traumatic Openings: BBC Panorama at Brook House IRC

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5 July 2017

Guilty of Travelling: When Immigration Detention is Worse than Prison

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3 July 2017

A Critical Look at the Italian Immigration and Asylum Policy: Building ‘Walls of Laws’

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