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Nik Ostrand
@nikostrand.bsky.social
Postdoc @demigkrems.bsky.social‬, research fellow @arena_uio and @scmrjems, assoc editor JEMS. Researching externalisation in migration governance, non/knowledge production, deportation, state violence, frontex. Lover of cats, coffee and bikes
So great to see our @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social SI finally out on The Constitution and Contestablity of Borders with the ever amazing @hallamtuck.bsky.social and @dorinadamsa.bsky.social 🥳.
Check out our new introduction and the fantastic papers
www.tandfonline.com/toc/fgeo20/3...
Geopolitics
The Constitution and Contestablity of Borders. Volume 30, Issue 5 of Geopolitics
www.tandfonline.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Our special issue on the constitution and contestability of borders is out now in Geopolitics!

@nikostrand.bsky.social @dorinadamsa.bsky.social

Read here: Geopolitics: Vol 30, No 5 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fgeo20/3...
Geopolitics
The Constitution and Contestablity of Borders. Volume 30, Issue 5 of Geopolitics
www.tandfonline.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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DEMIG Online Talk: Join @nikostrand.bsky.social as she explores how deportation in Europe is shaped by both knowledge and ignorance. Learn about the overlooked harms of routine procedures and the role of "not knowing" in justifying state actions.
📅 24 June, 2-3pm‬
www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...
June 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Really looking forward to this talk based on my recent paper with the amazing @dorinadamsa.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
DEMIG Online Talk: Join @nikostrand.bsky.social as she explores how deportation in Europe is shaped by both knowledge and ignorance. Learn about the overlooked harms of routine procedures and the role of "not knowing" in justifying state actions.
📅 24 June, 2-3pm‬
www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/universit...
June 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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In the final @bordercrim.bsky.social post on methodology and immigration detention, Francesca Esposito describes the collaborative work with @aviddetention.bsky.social, the unchained collective, and many others in creating wonderful animated film 'Removed': blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
Creating counternarratives on immigration detention: from individual academic research to community-engaged participatory processes
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk
May 30, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Excited to have a new OA paper out with the amazing @dorinadamsa.bsky.social on the fluidity of non/knowledge production, drawing on our empirical work on deportation from EUrope. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@demigkrems.bsky.social @scmrjems.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social
May 30, 2025 at 7:55 AM
And a special thanks to our amazing co-editor @hallamtuck.bsky.social, as well as Wiebe Ruijtenberg, Katja Franko and the two anonymous reviewers who all thoughtfully engaged with the analytical perspectives explored in this paper and for their valuable feedback 🙏
I am very proud to have edited this paper by my dear friends @dorinadamsa.bsky.social @nikostrand.bsky.social, which is part of our soon-to-be published special issue!
[Members' News] New publication by @dorinadamsa.bsky.social & @nikostrand.bsky.social on the epistemologies & methodologies of non/knowledge production in deportation from Europe, focusing on its fluid, i.e., co-constitutive, relational & contextual dimensions: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
May 23, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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We're hiring! 📢
Are you passionate about social media, content creation, and communications—with a strong interest in migration and border control? You might be the perfect fit for our Research & Communications Officer role at Border Criminologies.
Spread the word: www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-and...
April 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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In this article, @smartitaz.bsky.social & I discuss how some decolonial approaches to borders & migration conceptualise colonial legacies by reducing the complex ways in which the colonial past informs racialised bordering mechanisms in the present.
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Mare nero? Undoing the decolonial redux, multiplying (post)colonial legacies and struggles
Critique concerning Migration Studies’ Eurocentrism and its oblivion of race and colonialism has gained traction, prompting considerable soul-searching in the field as well as calls to decolonise M...
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April 24, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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The Senate has voted 64-35 to pass the Laken Riley Act, which will enable Trump’s ICE to put migrants in detention without due process & empower states to block visa programs & federal immigration policy.

12 Democrats voted with Republicans.
January 20, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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January 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Submit your abstracts by 14th Feb for ‘Race, Refuge & Repair’ @uctlaw.bsky.social with @bordercrim.bsky.social @refugeestudies.bsky.social & KCL Law

with E. Tendayi Achiume, @madlingozi.bsky.social @mfbosworth.bsky.social & Siphamandla Zondi

Call for papers here

law.uct.ac.za/sites/defaul...
January 20, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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📢 Exciting opportunity! Join us & @biddetention.bsky.social on our comms and Detention Landscapes projects (Law 01). Build skills in research communications, social media, and managing a global human rights database. Open to law & social science students. Learn more:
UNIQ+ projects | University of Oxford
Projects available for entry in 2025As part of your UNIQ+ Research Internship, you will be working on a project under the supervision of academic staff from our community of world-leading researchers.
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January 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Join Prof. Mary Bosworth as she introduces her new book—the first study of immigration detainee escorting in the UK. Discover how this system operates like a supply chain, its punitive effects, and its implications for border control.

More info: https://buff.ly/4fUKrn3
January 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM