The 2015 Law and Society Association Conference
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Post by Sarah Turnbull, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. Follow Sarah on Twitter @SL_Turnbull.

In one of these CRN02 sessions, ‘“We the people of Europe?”: How the Remaking of Borders is Remaking Europe (Part 2), Ines Hasselberg and I co-presented a draft paper in which we’re exploring the carceral trajectories of male foreign-national prisoners in the United Kingdom. Drawing on our respective research projects here at Border Criminologies, the paper considers the lived experiences of confinement across two carceral sites, prison and immigration detention. Our presentation focused on how the intertwined practices of imprisonment and detention coalesce within the UK ‘deportation regime’ and change the character and experience of confinement for convicted men who aren’t British citizens.

The other CRN02 panels focused on key ongoing and emerging areas of scholarship, including: the parallels between mass incarceration and mass deportation in the US context, the use of risk assessments in immigration detention, state techniques of immigration control, and (im)migrant activism and organising.
It was great to see other members of the Border Criminologies network at the conference presenting their work. Vanessa Barker (Stockholm University) provided a critical analysis of how increased border control is changing fundamental aspects of criminal justice systems across Europe, thereby posing problems for our understanding of European penality and the European project more generally. Drawing on research from her new book Punish and Expel: Border Control, Nationalism, and the New Purpose of the Prison (Oxford University Press, 2015), Emma Kaufman (Yale Law School) discussed how the priorities of border control are being transported into US prisons for foreign nationals and thus challenging the traditional purposes of the prison and punishment. Tanya Golash-Boza’s (University of California, Merced) presentation focused on issues of race and deportation based on her research with Jamaican and Dominican deportees. Maria João Guia (University of Coimbra) commented on issues of inclusion and exclusion of migrants in the European Union, particularly in relation to the dichotomy of European citizen/third country national.

For more on specific panel sessions, see Border Criminologies’ Twitter coverage of the LSA via Storify.
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How to cite this blog post (Harvard style):
Turnbull, S. (2015) The 2015 Law and Society Association Conference. Available at: http://bordercriminologies.law.ox.ac.uk/lsa2015-conference/ (Accessed [date]).
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