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5 October 2020

Interview with Evgenia Iliadou

1 October 2020

What’s in Sexuality? The Right to Privacy of LGBTI+ Asylum Seekers

30 September 2020

New Pact on Migration: An Exacerbation of Past Failures in Shiny New Packaging

6 July 2020

Humanitarian Smugglers? The EU Facilitation Directive and the Criminalisation of Civil Society

14 October 2019

At Europe’s Edge: Migration and Crisis in the Mediterranean

4 July 2019

Book Review: Frontex and Human Rights: Responsibility in 'Multi-Actor Situations' under the ECHR and EU Public Liability Law

11 June 2019

Schengen Visa Implementation and Transnational Policymaking

4 April 2019

The Humanitarian Battlefield in the Mediterranean Sea: Moving Beyond Rescuing and Letting Die

18 July 2018

Migration, Human Rights and Fortress Europe: How Far Will European Leaders Go to Protect the EU’s Borders?

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)

13 April 2018

Moria Refugee Camp: Restriction of Movement and Living Conditions

12 April 2018

Asylum Seekers in Samos: An Unreasonable Reality

11 April 2018

The Taranto Hotspot: Unveiling the Developments of EU Migration Management Policies

10 April 2018

Detention and Selection: An Overview of the Italian Hotspot System

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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

Interview with Evgenia Iliadou

What’s in Sexuality? The Right to Privacy of LGBTI+ Asylum Seekers

New Pact on Migration: An Exacerbation of Past Failures in Shiny New Packaging

Humanitarian Smugglers? The EU Facilitation Directive and the Criminalisation of Civil Society

At Europe’s Edge: Migration and Crisis in the Mediterranean

Book Review: Frontex and Human Rights: Responsibility in 'Multi-Actor Situations' under the ECHR and EU Public Liability Law

Schengen Visa Implementation and Transnational Policymaking

The Humanitarian Battlefield in the Mediterranean Sea: Moving Beyond Rescuing and Letting Die

Migration, Human Rights and Fortress Europe: How Far Will European Leaders Go to Protect the EU’s Borders?

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)

Moria Refugee Camp: Restriction of Movement and Living Conditions

Asylum Seekers in Samos: An Unreasonable Reality

The Taranto Hotspot: Unveiling the Developments of EU Migration Management Policies

Detention and Selection: An Overview of the Italian Hotspot System

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

Interview with Evgenia Iliadou

What’s in Sexuality? The Right to Privacy of LGBTI+ Asylum Seekers

New Pact on Migration: An Exacerbation of Past Failures in Shiny New Packaging

Humanitarian Smugglers? The EU Facilitation Directive and the Criminalisation of Civil Society

At Europe’s Edge: Migration and Crisis in the Mediterranean

Book Review: Frontex and Human Rights: Responsibility in 'Multi-Actor Situations' under the ECHR and EU Public Liability Law

Schengen Visa Implementation and Transnational Policymaking

The Humanitarian Battlefield in the Mediterranean Sea: Moving Beyond Rescuing and Letting Die

Migration, Human Rights and Fortress Europe: How Far Will European Leaders Go to Protect the EU’s Borders?

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)

Moria Refugee Camp: Restriction of Movement and Living Conditions

Asylum Seekers in Samos: An Unreasonable Reality

The Taranto Hotspot: Unveiling the Developments of EU Migration Management Policies

Detention and Selection: An Overview of the Italian Hotspot System

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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