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🔥 These things got us talking at our annual workshop: creatively disrupting hostile border systems; navigating abolition; borderless empires vs bordered reparations.
Watch to find out more! 👇
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@cambridgelaw.bsky.social
Watch to find out more! 👇
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In May 2025, the UK Labour government published a new immigration white paper. Ananya Kumar-Banerjee discusses how it uses the spectre of illegal migrants to obscure the systematic exploitation of those on the move.
Read the full post here ⤵️
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Read the full post here ⤵️
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November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
In May 2025, the UK Labour government published a new immigration white paper. Ananya Kumar-Banerjee discusses how it uses the spectre of illegal migrants to obscure the systematic exploitation of those on the move.
Read the full post here ⤵️
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Read the full post here ⤵️
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Looks brilliant!
If you haven't seen this incredible historical data project yet, make it a priority! Mapping Deportations: Unmasking the History of Racism in U.S. Immigration Enforcement.
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mappingdeportations.com
Mapping Deportations – U.S. Immigration Control since 1790
Mapping deportations invites you to see the history of U.S. immigration enforcement not as a series of disconnected events, but as a pattern. For more than two centuries, U.S. immigration enforcement…
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November 7, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Looks brilliant!
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annika lindberg on what immigration detention in Denmark is like: www.manchesterhive.com/downloadpdf/...
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November 8, 2025 at 11:58 AM
annika lindberg on what immigration detention in Denmark is like: www.manchesterhive.com/downloadpdf/...
The increasing reliance on mobile data extraction in the EU asylum system is putting people at risk. Dr. Sanjeewani challenges the ethical and legal implications of this practice ⤵️
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November 7, 2025 at 10:33 AM
The increasing reliance on mobile data extraction in the EU asylum system is putting people at risk. Dr. Sanjeewani challenges the ethical and legal implications of this practice ⤵️
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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@bordercrim.bsky.social still looking for funding, please do send me any leads/ideas if you have any... I know it looks like the uni would cover us. but sadly it isn't quite that simple...
November 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
@bordercrim.bsky.social still looking for funding, please do send me any leads/ideas if you have any... I know it looks like the uni would cover us. but sadly it isn't quite that simple...
✨What does hope have to do with researching hostile border policies?✨
Dr Nomfundo Ramalekana, Monique Failla, @juliawinkler.bsky.social & Ibrahim Ince share thoughts at our annual workshop @cambridgelaw.bsky.social @andrianifili.bsky.social @mfbosworth.bsky.social @smilivojevic.bsky.social 👇
Dr Nomfundo Ramalekana, Monique Failla, @juliawinkler.bsky.social & Ibrahim Ince share thoughts at our annual workshop @cambridgelaw.bsky.social @andrianifili.bsky.social @mfbosworth.bsky.social @smilivojevic.bsky.social 👇
November 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
✨What does hope have to do with researching hostile border policies?✨
Dr Nomfundo Ramalekana, Monique Failla, @juliawinkler.bsky.social & Ibrahim Ince share thoughts at our annual workshop @cambridgelaw.bsky.social @andrianifili.bsky.social @mfbosworth.bsky.social @smilivojevic.bsky.social 👇
Dr Nomfundo Ramalekana, Monique Failla, @juliawinkler.bsky.social & Ibrahim Ince share thoughts at our annual workshop @cambridgelaw.bsky.social @andrianifili.bsky.social @mfbosworth.bsky.social @smilivojevic.bsky.social 👇
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A devastating new blog about the interconnections between climate breakdown and border control. Sometimes I do wish we all worked on cheerier topics...
Afghan refugees are on the front line of climate hazards in Karachi, Pakistan. And the increasing threat of deportation is making them more vulnerable to those hazards.
Read the new blog post by Nasrat Sayed and Zulfiqar Kunbhar ⤵️
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
Read the new blog post by Nasrat Sayed and Zulfiqar Kunbhar ⤵️
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
November 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
A devastating new blog about the interconnections between climate breakdown and border control. Sometimes I do wish we all worked on cheerier topics...
Afghan refugees are on the front line of climate hazards in Karachi, Pakistan. And the increasing threat of deportation is making them more vulnerable to those hazards.
Read the new blog post by Nasrat Sayed and Zulfiqar Kunbhar ⤵️
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
Read the new blog post by Nasrat Sayed and Zulfiqar Kunbhar ⤵️
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
November 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Afghan refugees are on the front line of climate hazards in Karachi, Pakistan. And the increasing threat of deportation is making them more vulnerable to those hazards.
Read the new blog post by Nasrat Sayed and Zulfiqar Kunbhar ⤵️
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
Read the new blog post by Nasrat Sayed and Zulfiqar Kunbhar ⤵️
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
Frontex in Focus explores the impunity surrounding top-down violence at global borders, with particular attention to the experiences of asylum seekers waiting at EU frontiers. Read the book review 📚⤵️
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October 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Frontex in Focus explores the impunity surrounding top-down violence at global borders, with particular attention to the experiences of asylum seekers waiting at EU frontiers. Read the book review 📚⤵️
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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New blog on overlapping border regimes, published today in Border Criminologies
“No Laws to Protect You”: Life Between Cyprus’ Overlapping
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October 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
New blog on overlapping border regimes, published today in Border Criminologies
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We have long-warned of the harms of large-scale accommodation sites.
The Government knows that they are cruel, unsafe and unsuitable.
This plan is chasing headlines. It puts closing hotels before people.
This move will undoubtedly cause harm and distress to people seeking safety here.
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The Government knows that they are cruel, unsafe and unsuitable.
This plan is chasing headlines. It puts closing hotels before people.
This move will undoubtedly cause harm and distress to people seeking safety here.
2/2
October 28, 2025 at 8:57 AM
We have long-warned of the harms of large-scale accommodation sites.
The Government knows that they are cruel, unsafe and unsuitable.
This plan is chasing headlines. It puts closing hotels before people.
This move will undoubtedly cause harm and distress to people seeking safety here.
2/2
The Government knows that they are cruel, unsafe and unsuitable.
This plan is chasing headlines. It puts closing hotels before people.
This move will undoubtedly cause harm and distress to people seeking safety here.
2/2
📆 Event on 12 Nov! Dr Matilde Rosina will examine migration deterrence policies, with a focus on the introduction of the “crime of migration”.
Do deterrence policies work? And what are their unintended consequences? For more info and to sign up ⤵️
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Do deterrence policies work? And what are their unintended consequences? For more info and to sign up ⤵️
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
Deterrence and the criminalisation of irregular
Abstract In Europe and beyond, deterrence-based policies are increasingly used as a response to
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October 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
📆 Event on 12 Nov! Dr Matilde Rosina will examine migration deterrence policies, with a focus on the introduction of the “crime of migration”.
Do deterrence policies work? And what are their unintended consequences? For more info and to sign up ⤵️
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
Do deterrence policies work? And what are their unintended consequences? For more info and to sign up ⤵️
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
Ambiguity surrounding borders and their governance is a challenge for migrants on the island of Cyprus – the place with the highest per capita asylum applications in the EU in 2023.
Read the new blog post by Seçil Dağtaş, Aicha Lariani and Suzan Ilcan ⤵️
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
Read the new blog post by Seçil Dağtaş, Aicha Lariani and Suzan Ilcan ⤵️
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
October 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Ambiguity surrounding borders and their governance is a challenge for migrants on the island of Cyprus – the place with the highest per capita asylum applications in the EU in 2023.
Read the new blog post by Seçil Dağtaş, Aicha Lariani and Suzan Ilcan ⤵️
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
Read the new blog post by Seçil Dağtaş, Aicha Lariani and Suzan Ilcan ⤵️
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
Over a million Rohingya refugees live in a legal vacuum in Bangladesh. This situation is not simply a humanitarian failure: it is a legal breach. Read the new blog post by Sakhawat Sajjat Sejan and Abu Bakker Siddiq ⤵️
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blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
October 24, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Over a million Rohingya refugees live in a legal vacuum in Bangladesh. This situation is not simply a humanitarian failure: it is a legal breach. Read the new blog post by Sakhawat Sajjat Sejan and Abu Bakker Siddiq ⤵️
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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So excited to have received my copy of @andrianifili.bsky.social’s fabulous new book: think I have got mine before she has received hers. It’s a very sobering read of course. But brilliant!
October 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
So excited to have received my copy of @andrianifili.bsky.social’s fabulous new book: think I have got mine before she has received hers. It’s a very sobering read of course. But brilliant!
Legal advocates are encouraging Thailand to change its interpretation of Section 268 of its Penal Code to protect refugees who use falsified documents to flee dangerous circumstances.
Read the new blog post from Jatuporn Cheewasrirungruang: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
Read the new blog post from Jatuporn Cheewasrirungruang: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
October 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Legal advocates are encouraging Thailand to change its interpretation of Section 268 of its Penal Code to protect refugees who use falsified documents to flee dangerous circumstances.
Read the new blog post from Jatuporn Cheewasrirungruang: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
Read the new blog post from Jatuporn Cheewasrirungruang: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
📆 Join us for an online seminar next Thursday! @svaroschi.bsky.social will present a new co-authored report with the International Detention Coalition: 'From Surveillance to Empowerment: Advancing the Responsible Use of Tech in Alternatives to Detention'.
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October 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
📆 Join us for an online seminar next Thursday! @svaroschi.bsky.social will present a new co-authored report with the International Detention Coalition: 'From Surveillance to Empowerment: Advancing the Responsible Use of Tech in Alternatives to Detention'.
Sign up 👇
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*Highly recommended* - Deirdre Conlon and Nancy Hiemstra have created a vital stack of evidence of the financial and business behind rapidly expanding #detention facilities. Coming to a 'managed migration' system near you: food offered at minimum calorific intake to increase outsourcer profit.
Food, medical care, in-facility stores. There's 💰 to be gained from the business of immigration detention.
Find out more in the launch of Conlon and Hiemstra's new book, plus discussion with Prof Ruben Andersson, on 21 October, 5-6pm BST. Register here ⬇️
www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...
Find out more in the launch of Conlon and Hiemstra's new book, plus discussion with Prof Ruben Andersson, on 21 October, 5-6pm BST. Register here ⬇️
www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...
October 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
*Highly recommended* - Deirdre Conlon and Nancy Hiemstra have created a vital stack of evidence of the financial and business behind rapidly expanding #detention facilities. Coming to a 'managed migration' system near you: food offered at minimum calorific intake to increase outsourcer profit.
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Join us online on 30th October: I'm very much looking forward to presenting the report on technology and alternatives to detention I recently worked on, hosted by the Technology & Digital Futures thematic group of @bordercrim.bsky.social
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Technology & Digital Futures feat. Antonella Napolitano
Please use this form to sign up for the Border Criminologies Technology & Digital Futures seminar with Antonella Napolitano on Thursday 30th October from 15:00–16:15 GMT.
Antonella will present a ne...
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October 16, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Join us online on 30th October: I'm very much looking forward to presenting the report on technology and alternatives to detention I recently worked on, hosted by the Technology & Digital Futures thematic group of @bordercrim.bsky.social
Sign up here:
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Sign up here:
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A full house tonight for Dr Samuel Singler’s book launch @oxfordcrim.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social. Very pleased to have seen this from doctoral thesis to publication.The book, Outsourcing Crimmigration Control, is open access at:
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October 16, 2025 at 10:07 PM
A full house tonight for Dr Samuel Singler’s book launch @oxfordcrim.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social. Very pleased to have seen this from doctoral thesis to publication.The book, Outsourcing Crimmigration Control, is open access at:
repository.essex.ac.uk/41343/1/isbn...
repository.essex.ac.uk/41343/1/isbn...
The assumption that we live in a time of multiple migration crises has had a significant impact on how international migration is understood and addressed. That's why having clear definitions is so important.
Read the new blog post ⤵️
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Read the new blog post ⤵️
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October 17, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The assumption that we live in a time of multiple migration crises has had a significant impact on how international migration is understood and addressed. That's why having clear definitions is so important.
Read the new blog post ⤵️
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
Read the new blog post ⤵️
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
Join us next Tuesday to hear the authors discuss their brand new book! 📆👇
Food, medical care, in-facility stores. There's 💰 to be gained from the business of immigration detention.
Find out more in the launch of Conlon and Hiemstra's new book, plus discussion with Prof Ruben Andersson, on 21 October, 5-6pm BST. Register here ⬇️
www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...
Find out more in the launch of Conlon and Hiemstra's new book, plus discussion with Prof Ruben Andersson, on 21 October, 5-6pm BST. Register here ⬇️
www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...
October 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Join us next Tuesday to hear the authors discuss their brand new book! 📆👇
Happening tomorrow! ⤵️
📆 Join us on the 16th for the launch of Samuel Singler's new book, Outsourcing Crimmigration Control: Digital Borders, the IOM, and Biometric Statehood. Sign up to join online or in person 👇
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Book launch – Outsourcing Crimmigration Control
Abstract Samuel Singler will introduce his new book, Outsourcing Crimmigration Control. The book
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October 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Happening tomorrow! ⤵️
In their annual review, @medicaljustice.org.uk highlight how failures in clinical safeguards continued to put vulnerable people at unacceptable levels of risk and failed to prevent harm in immigration detention during 2024. Read the post by Ariel Plotkin ⤵️
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October 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
In their annual review, @medicaljustice.org.uk highlight how failures in clinical safeguards continued to put vulnerable people at unacceptable levels of risk and failed to prevent harm in immigration detention during 2024. Read the post by Ariel Plotkin ⤵️
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
Germany and Greece are quietly redefining EU asylum norms, by using national derogations to limit certain people's access to asylum. Read the new blog post from student researcher Ridam Gangwar ⤵️
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
October 10, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Germany and Greece are quietly redefining EU asylum norms, by using national derogations to limit certain people's access to asylum. Read the new blog post from student researcher Ridam Gangwar ⤵️
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...