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3 November 2022

‘Deviant States’, Deportation and Border Disruption

by: Henrietta McNeill

27 October 2022

Book Review: Corpi Reclusi in Attesa di Espulsione

by: Teresa Degenhardt

21 February 2022

Everyday Violence and Resistance in Europe’s ‘Migration Management’ During the Covid-19 Pandemic

29 November 2021

The Membership Lottery: New Zealand’s COVID-19 Quarantine and the Convergence of Border and Infectious Disease Control

14 September 2021

Membership Without Mobility: The Counterfactual as Fact

17 May 2021

A Tale of Two Countries Sans Its Citizens

10 December 2020

From the Zero Line: Covid and Citizen Mobility

2 December 2020

COVID-19 Exposes the Realities of Europe’s Neglected Essential Workers

20 November 2020

‘No one is looking at us anymore’: Migrant Detention and Covid-19 in Italy

23 July 2020

Covid-19 and Refugees in India: A Tale of Exclusion and Counter-Exclusion

22 July 2020

One Month On: Trump and Public Health Securitisation at the Border

21 July 2020

Immigration Detention in the Age of COVID-19: A View from Canada

15 July 2020

The Entrenchment of the Medical Border in Pandemic Times

13 July 2020

Detained and Disregarded: How COVID-19 Has Affected Detained and Deportable Migrants in Sweden

9 July 2020

The Continued Detention of Migrants in U.S. Detention Centers During the COVID Pandemic

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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

‘Deviant States’, Deportation and Border Disruption

Book Review: Corpi Reclusi in Attesa di Espulsione

Everyday Violence and Resistance in Europe’s ‘Migration Management’ During the Covid-19 Pandemic

The Membership Lottery: New Zealand’s COVID-19 Quarantine and the Convergence of Border and Infectious Disease Control

Membership Without Mobility: The Counterfactual as Fact

A Tale of Two Countries Sans Its Citizens

From the Zero Line: Covid and Citizen Mobility

COVID-19 Exposes the Realities of Europe’s Neglected Essential Workers

‘No one is looking at us anymore’: Migrant Detention and Covid-19 in Italy

Covid-19 and Refugees in India: A Tale of Exclusion and Counter-Exclusion

One Month On: Trump and Public Health Securitisation at the Border

Immigration Detention in the Age of COVID-19: A View from Canada

The Entrenchment of the Medical Border in Pandemic Times

Detained and Disregarded: How COVID-19 Has Affected Detained and Deportable Migrants in Sweden

The Continued Detention of Migrants in U.S. Detention Centers During the COVID Pandemic

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

‘Deviant States’, Deportation and Border Disruption

Book Review: Corpi Reclusi in Attesa di Espulsione

Everyday Violence and Resistance in Europe’s ‘Migration Management’ During the Covid-19 Pandemic

The Membership Lottery: New Zealand’s COVID-19 Quarantine and the Convergence of Border and Infectious Disease Control

Membership Without Mobility: The Counterfactual as Fact

A Tale of Two Countries Sans Its Citizens

From the Zero Line: Covid and Citizen Mobility

COVID-19 Exposes the Realities of Europe’s Neglected Essential Workers

‘No one is looking at us anymore’: Migrant Detention and Covid-19 in Italy

Covid-19 and Refugees in India: A Tale of Exclusion and Counter-Exclusion

One Month On: Trump and Public Health Securitisation at the Border

Immigration Detention in the Age of COVID-19: A View from Canada

The Entrenchment of the Medical Border in Pandemic Times

Detained and Disregarded: How COVID-19 Has Affected Detained and Deportable Migrants in Sweden

The Continued Detention of Migrants in U.S. Detention Centers During the COVID Pandemic

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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