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Policing Right-Wing Protest in Sweden’s Suburbs 18 January 2021 A Welcome Reception? Interdiction, Detention and Deportation in the Dutch Caribbean 13 January 2021 Validating Border Violence on the Aegean: Frontex’s Internal Records 18 December 2020 Children on the Move: An Account of Afghan Children Workers in the Bazaar area of Tehran 16 December 2020 Accessing Human Rights in Immigration Detention in Greece 2 December 2020 COVID-19 Exposes the Realities of Europe’s Neglected Essential Workers 13 November 2020 How Will the Results of the 2020 Election Affect the Enforcement of Immigration Laws in the United States of America? 13 November 2020 Border Criminologies in Uncertain Times: A Response to the US Election 14 October 2020 Freedom and Force: Contesting the Figure of the Migrant Slave 30 September 2020 New Pact on Migration: An Exacerbation of Past Failures in Shiny New Packaging 23 September 2020 Reading The Crimmigrant Other from a Distant Corner of Europe 21 September 2020 Book Review: The Crimmigrant Other: Migration and Penal Power 18 September 2020 Book Review: Reframing Migration: Lampedusa, Border Spectacle and Aesthetics of Subversion Load More Top blogs posts this month 1) 29 September 2025 Italy's Borders Immigration Paradox: Rising Numbers, Falling Crime, and the Reality of Exploitation by: Luciano Magaldi Sardella, Matteo Mantuano 2) 8 December 2025 Criminalisation at European Borders and the Role of Artificial Intelligence by: Dr Foteini Kalantzi 3) 10 November 2025 UK's Labour’s Immigration White Paper: Reviewed by: Ananya Kumar-Banerjee 4) 3 December 2025 On the perils of the ‘Danish model’ by: Sigrid Corry 5) 17 September 2025 Deported Without Due Process: How Border Militarization Undermines Constitutional and Human Rights by: Alexandra Wagner
