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Mary Bosworth
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Professor of Criminology, @oxfordcrim.bsky.social, co-Director @bordercrim.bsky.social, writes about immigration detention and deportation.

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Mary Francesca Bosworth is Professor of Criminology at the University of Oxford where she founded and co-directs the international research network Border Criminologies. She is the author of a number of books, including Engendering Resistance: Agency and Power in Women’s Prisons (1999), Explaining U.S. Imprisonment (2010), the edited book What is Criminology? (2011), the edited book The Borders of Punishment (2013), Inside Immigration Detention (2014), Bordered Lives (2020) with Khadija von Zinnenburg Carrol and Christoph Balzar, and Supply Chain Justice (2025). From 2009 to 2024 Mary Bosworth was the UK Editor-in-Chief of the journal Theoretical Criminology. .. more

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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 2d
“Not” applicable...

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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 2d
Shorts??? Or are they pantaloons (such a good word but sadly I think
Now applicable here)… well I hope you find some use for it!

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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 2d
What is a “shooting suit”?

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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 2d
Christmas for care leavers - please support
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Oxfordshire Christmas Dinner for Care Leavers 2025
We're back for a third year to create a magical Christmas for our Care-Experienced Community. Let's make this day one of warmth, community, and peace.
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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 3d
annika lindberg on what immigration detention in Denmark is like: www.manchesterhive.com/downloadpdf/...
www.manchesterhive.com

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 4d
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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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 4d
Looks brilliant!

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 4d
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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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…
mappingdeportations.com

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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · 4d
Join our next All Souls Seminar - Hybrid with Zora Hauser. Sign up at: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
Image with calendar date & headshot of speaker

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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 6d
What happens after Europe's NGOs are dismantled?
What happens after Europe's NGOs are dismantled?
What does Europe look like when independent civil society is silenced, sidelined or slowly starved out of existence? This is not dystopian fiction. It is the logical end-point of a trend already visible in Brussels and in several capitals: a deliberate effort to delegitimise, defund and constrain those who defend the public interest.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 6d
This is the Cheney obituary to read. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 7d
@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...

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European Court of Human Rights @echr.coe.int · 7d
📘 Today, the European Convention on Human Rights marks its 75th anniversary.

It is available in more than 40 languages on the Court’s website.
🔗https://www.echr.coe.int/european-convention-on-human-rights

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 8d
✨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 👇

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 8d
Delighted to announce we are advertising our first academic post in the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). The position is Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science and is joint with Politics, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Reuben College 1/n
Job Details
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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 8d
A devastating new blog about the interconnections between climate breakdown and border control. Sometimes I do wish we all worked on cheerier topics...
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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 ⤵️

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 8d
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...

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Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social · 10d
Read our latest legal update on new immigration rules re higher English levels, graduate route changes & more. As ever thanking the shares ow.ly/8ocV50Xl7SY @asaproject-org.bsky.social @refugeeaction.bsky.social @praxisprojects.bsky.social #MigrationIsLife #NoOneIsIllegal #TheseWallsMustFall

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 11d
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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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 13d
Why are journalists so keen to sensationalise this particular deportation. Other than his mistaken release from prison all the rest of it sounds like it's business as normal. That's how deportations work folks...

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 13d
📆 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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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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Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social · 14d
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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suzan ilcan @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social · 14d
New blog on overlapping border regimes, published today in Border Criminologies
“No Laws to Protect You”: Life Between Cyprus’ Overlapping
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 15d
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 ⤵️
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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 19d
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!

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Alex Stevens @profalexstevens.bsky.social · 24d
We need two new full-time lecturers in #criminology here at @sheffielduni.bsky.social. One permanent share.google/RuTNSJWfvkuK... and one 12 month maternity cover share.google/xzf5icskztO9...
Lecturer in Criminology at University of Sheffield
Apply for the Lecturer in Criminology role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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yashamac @yaswmac.bsky.social · 24d
…the uk needs a lot more high quality principled journalism like this offering from mike jempson in the bristol cable…

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At home with refugees - The Bristol Cable
A veteran journalist reflects on the hidden traumas he has witnessed over a quarter of a century of hosting refugees in his Bristol home
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 25d
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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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 25d
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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