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8 January 2024

The persisting challenges of the new European Commission's smuggling directive proposal

by: Federico Alagna, Gabriella Sanchez

18 May 2023

Book Review: Policing Mobility Regimes: Frontex and the Production of the European Borderscape

by: Céline Hocquet

28 April 2023

Frontex off Campus! An Interview with Professor Michele Lancione

by: Maurice Stierl

14 March 2023

Asylum? Maybe, But Outside The EU. The Externalization of the Responsibility to Protect

by: Ivana Belén Ruiz-Estramil

28 September 2022

Undoing the Migration Digital Black Box

by: Martina Tazzioli, Lucrezia Canzutti

17 March 2022

Beyond Violent Raids, Sit-In Evictions and Arbitrary Detention in Tripoli (Libya): How Black Refugee Voices Refuse to be Silenced

9 March 2022

The European Union Humanitarian Aid Policy and Migration to Europe: New Challenges, New Commitments

4 February 2022

Double Book Review: Dictators as Gatekeepers for Europe: Outsourcing EU Border Controls to Africa and The Making of Migration: The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe’s Borders

12 January 2022

Deconstructing Border Walls in the EU

22 July 2021

On its 70th Anniversary, the Refugee Convention Faces Unprecedented Threats Across Europe

11 May 2021

Refocusing Containment Measures in the EU: COVID-19 and the Rise of Temporary Bordering

7 May 2021

The Rise of Frontex in the EU’s New Strategy on Assisted Return

2 April 2021

The European Approach to Hotspots in Greek Islands

30 March 2021

The Wall, Hotspots And Detention at Sea: Those Other Sites of Detention

3 March 2021

Libya’s Figures About Detained Migrants and Detention Centres: Reasons for Recent Fluctuations

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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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10 November 2026

Building an archive of deaths in Greek immigration detention centres

by: Andriani Fili, Stergios Magkriotis, Alice Troy-Donovan

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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 persisting challenges of the new European Commission's smuggling directive proposal

Book Review: Policing Mobility Regimes: Frontex and the Production of the European Borderscape

Frontex off Campus! An Interview with Professor Michele Lancione

Asylum? Maybe, But Outside The EU. The Externalization of the Responsibility to Protect

Undoing the Migration Digital Black Box

Beyond Violent Raids, Sit-In Evictions and Arbitrary Detention in Tripoli (Libya): How Black Refugee Voices Refuse to be Silenced

The European Union Humanitarian Aid Policy and Migration to Europe: New Challenges, New Commitments

Double Book Review: Dictators as Gatekeepers for Europe: Outsourcing EU Border Controls to Africa and The Making of Migration: The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe’s Borders

Deconstructing Border Walls in the EU

On its 70th Anniversary, the Refugee Convention Faces Unprecedented Threats Across Europe

Refocusing Containment Measures in the EU: COVID-19 and the Rise of Temporary Bordering

The Rise of Frontex in the EU’s New Strategy on Assisted Return

The European Approach to Hotspots in Greek Islands

The Wall, Hotspots And Detention at Sea: Those Other Sites of Detention

Libya’s Figures About Detained Migrants and Detention Centres: Reasons for Recent Fluctuations

Top blogs posts this month

1)

EU ‘Deportation Regulation’: a massive expansion of immigration detention

2)

Building an archive of deaths in Greek immigration detention centres

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 persisting challenges of the new European Commission's smuggling directive proposal

Book Review: Policing Mobility Regimes: Frontex and the Production of the European Borderscape

Frontex off Campus! An Interview with Professor Michele Lancione

Asylum? Maybe, But Outside The EU. The Externalization of the Responsibility to Protect

Undoing the Migration Digital Black Box

Beyond Violent Raids, Sit-In Evictions and Arbitrary Detention in Tripoli (Libya): How Black Refugee Voices Refuse to be Silenced

The European Union Humanitarian Aid Policy and Migration to Europe: New Challenges, New Commitments

Double Book Review: Dictators as Gatekeepers for Europe: Outsourcing EU Border Controls to Africa and The Making of Migration: The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe’s Borders

Deconstructing Border Walls in the EU

On its 70th Anniversary, the Refugee Convention Faces Unprecedented Threats Across Europe

Refocusing Containment Measures in the EU: COVID-19 and the Rise of Temporary Bordering

The Rise of Frontex in the EU’s New Strategy on Assisted Return

The European Approach to Hotspots in Greek Islands

The Wall, Hotspots And Detention at Sea: Those Other Sites of Detention

Libya’s Figures About Detained Migrants and Detention Centres: Reasons for Recent Fluctuations

Top blogs posts this month

1)

EU ‘Deportation Regulation’: a massive expansion of immigration detention

2)

Building an archive of deaths in Greek immigration detention centres

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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