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Stuck between borders: The power of bureaucratic ambiguity

by: Rameen Naseem

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‘Approved Pending Revisions’ – Reflections on State Categories and Bordering Through Bureaucracy 

by: Steph Hanlon

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Unpacking transparency: researching migration and border governance through Freedom of Information Requests

by: Amalia Campos-Delgado

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Empathizing with the Unsympathetic? A Methodological Reflection 

by: Irene I. Vega

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Navigating Suspicion: Access, Trust, and the Ethics of Studying Border Bureaucracies 

by: Maartje van der Woude

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Methodological Reflections on Studying Border Policing

by: Maartje van der Woude, Eva van Gemert

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A Stake in the Hold: Reflections on Partnership during Fieldwork at Operation Sophia’s Stakeholder Meeting 

by: Eva van Gemert

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Image Credit: Suzan Ilcan

Emotional Borders: People on the move during Syria’s civil conflict

by: Suzan Ilcan

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Agents of Affect: The Emotional Interactions Between Immigrants and Immigration Agents 

by: Jozef Robles

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Top blogs posts this month

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

by: Galatea Scotti, Chiara Catelli

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Lharba at the border: Escape, rumours, and the making of the 2026 Ceuta crossings

by: Rachid Benharrousse

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Building an archive of deaths in Greek immigration detention centres

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

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Out of sight, out of mind? How a colonial past shapes the Italy-Libya migration partnership

by: Diana Volpe

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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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