Di Volpe
@dianavolpe.bsky.social
Wiener-Anspach Postdoctoral Fellow @ REPI @ulbruxelles.bsky.social & blog @bordercrim.bsky.social / DPhil @refugeestudies.bsky.social / Italy, asylum, borders, abolition / big fan of wheelie shoes
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Perhaps no other nationality came to represent the so-called ‘small boats crisis’ as much as Albanian migrants. Alice Griggs examines whether parliamentary discourse constructed those migrants as criminals to justify new legislation. Read the blog post ⤵️
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December 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Perhaps no other nationality came to represent the so-called ‘small boats crisis’ as much as Albanian migrants. Alice Griggs examines whether parliamentary discourse constructed those migrants as criminals to justify new legislation. Read the blog post ⤵️
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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📣 The 2025/6 University League is here!
We ranked 147 UK universities against ethics and sustainability criteria. 📈
🔍 Find out how your university scored! 👇
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We ranked 147 UK universities against ethics and sustainability criteria. 📈
🔍 Find out how your university scored! 👇
peopleandplanet.org/university-l...
December 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
📣 The 2025/6 University League is here!
We ranked 147 UK universities against ethics and sustainability criteria. 📈
🔍 Find out how your university scored! 👇
peopleandplanet.org/university-l...
We ranked 147 UK universities against ethics and sustainability criteria. 📈
🔍 Find out how your university scored! 👇
peopleandplanet.org/university-l...
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It would be funny, if it was a joke. But it isn’t a joke. The EU is really meeting this week to consider restricting plant-based food labelling. We urge the EU Agri-Fish Council to think of the consumer — they’re not confused by the labelling and they want easy ways to tackle climate change.
If it says 'vegetarian sausage' on the package, it probably is one
It would be funny, if it was a joke. But it isn’t a joke. The EU is really meeting this week to consider restricting plant-based food labelling. We urge the EU Agri-Fish Council to think of the consumer — they’re not confused by the labelling and they want easy ways to tackle climate change.
euobserver.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
It would be funny, if it was a joke. But it isn’t a joke. The EU is really meeting this week to consider restricting plant-based food labelling. We urge the EU Agri-Fish Council to think of the consumer — they’re not confused by the labelling and they want easy ways to tackle climate change.
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If you can afford it, please consider donating to @asylumwelcome.bsky.social’s fund to run a visiting programme at the newly re-opened local detention centre near Oxford. Campsfield House. They will offer crucial support to the men inside: www.justgiving.com/campaign/cam...
Help support Asylum Welcome’s Campsfield Visiting Service
Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre has reopened, and people are once again being held in fear, isolation and uncertainty. Asylum Welcome is launching a visiting service so that no-one held there is...
www.justgiving.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
If you can afford it, please consider donating to @asylumwelcome.bsky.social’s fund to run a visiting programme at the newly re-opened local detention centre near Oxford. Campsfield House. They will offer crucial support to the men inside: www.justgiving.com/campaign/cam...
I'll admit, the one thing I miss England for is not ever needing the Happy Cow app
December 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I'll admit, the one thing I miss England for is not ever needing the Happy Cow app
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I think this is a great example of what migrant rights organisations need to do: speak for everyone. Campaign for housing and workers rights for all in ways that solve the asylum-specific problems.
Right now public money fuels private profit while people live in poor conditions. It hurts all our communities. Our report sets out a council-run alternative. Email your MP and ask them to speak about it in Parliament: https://bit.ly/4pFEXly
Tell your MP to back community-led housing in 2 minutes!
It's time to give councils what they need to lead asylum housing and invest in social homes. I’ve asked my MP to read Refugee Action’s new report and back it. Add your voice now!
act.refugee-action.org.uk
December 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I think this is a great example of what migrant rights organisations need to do: speak for everyone. Campaign for housing and workers rights for all in ways that solve the asylum-specific problems.
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Hardline migration policies are fuelling people smuggling, report finds
Hardline migration policies are fuelling people smuggling, report finds
As leaders try to break smugglers’ business model, research suggests strategy so far has had opposite effect
Hardline migration policies adopted by governments across the globe have been a boon for people smugglers, fuelling demand and allowing them to raise their prices, according to a report.
The findings, released on Thursday by the Mixed Migration Centre of the Danish Refugee Council, and based on interviews with thousands of migrants and hundreds of smugglers, come as officials prepare to gather next week in Brussels to discuss how best to combat smuggling. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Hardline migration policies are fuelling people smuggling, report finds
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All the 'Danish model' has done is "entrench the forces and narratives driving the far-right. Its most tangible results are the harms inflicted on refugees and asylum seekers."
Read Sigrid Corry's account on why the UK should not follow suit: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
Read Sigrid Corry's account on why the UK should not follow suit: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
December 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
All the 'Danish model' has done is "entrench the forces and narratives driving the far-right. Its most tangible results are the harms inflicted on refugees and asylum seekers."
Read Sigrid Corry's account on why the UK should not follow suit: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
Read Sigrid Corry's account on why the UK should not follow suit: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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On 13 November, Italy and Albania signed 16 new agreements and reaffirmed their migration deal.
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
On 13 November, Italy and Albania signed 16 new agreements and reaffirmed their migration deal.
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Sicuri sicuri che dal giugno 2026 i centri in Albania "funzioneranno", come ha detto Meloni?
Che si sono persi due anni per colpa dei giudici?
E che, quando l'Ue approverà la lista di Paesi sicuri, essa sarà inattaccabile dai giudici, come Meloni pare suggerire?
pagellapolitica.it/articoli/mel...
Che si sono persi due anni per colpa dei giudici?
E che, quando l'Ue approverà la lista di Paesi sicuri, essa sarà inattaccabile dai giudici, come Meloni pare suggerire?
pagellapolitica.it/articoli/mel...
Quanto regge l’ottimismo di Meloni sui centri in Albania
Secondo la presidente del Consiglio, sicuramente saranno operativi da giugno 2026. In realtà, il quadro è molto...
pagellapolitica.it
November 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Sicuri sicuri che dal giugno 2026 i centri in Albania "funzioneranno", come ha detto Meloni?
Che si sono persi due anni per colpa dei giudici?
E che, quando l'Ue approverà la lista di Paesi sicuri, essa sarà inattaccabile dai giudici, come Meloni pare suggerire?
pagellapolitica.it/articoli/mel...
Che si sono persi due anni per colpa dei giudici?
E che, quando l'Ue approverà la lista di Paesi sicuri, essa sarà inattaccabile dai giudici, come Meloni pare suggerire?
pagellapolitica.it/articoli/mel...
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On our way to Oxford today for this screening of Removed (2025) - a panel digging into the realities of detention, resistance & community care.
Hosted by @bordercrim.bsky.social & Oxford @starnational.bsky.social group.
If you’re nearby, please come through.
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
Hosted by @bordercrim.bsky.social & Oxford @starnational.bsky.social group.
If you’re nearby, please come through.
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
Keeping Campsfield Closed: Screening of Removed
Monday 17th November, 6-7:30 PMCentre for Criminology, Faculty of Law, St Cross RoadJoin us next
www.law.ox.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
On our way to Oxford today for this screening of Removed (2025) - a panel digging into the realities of detention, resistance & community care.
Hosted by @bordercrim.bsky.social & Oxford @starnational.bsky.social group.
If you’re nearby, please come through.
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
Hosted by @bordercrim.bsky.social & Oxford @starnational.bsky.social group.
If you’re nearby, please come through.
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
Do come along if you're in Oxford!
📣 Event alert!
Keeping Campsfield Closed:
Join us on Monday 17 at 18:00 on the reopening of Oxford's local immigration removal centre. We will have a screening of Removed (2025) and a discussion with us, @aviddetention.bsky.social and @closecampsfield.bsky.social
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
Keeping Campsfield Closed:
Join us on Monday 17 at 18:00 on the reopening of Oxford's local immigration removal centre. We will have a screening of Removed (2025) and a discussion with us, @aviddetention.bsky.social and @closecampsfield.bsky.social
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
November 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Do come along if you're in Oxford!
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✨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 👇
It was never about 'following the rules', coming 'illegally', or 'skipping the line'. It was always about moving the goalpost further and further away, starting from the most vulnerable
Starmer on Sunday, Home Secretary on Monday, no 10 on Tuesday saying different things about what happens to people here legally. "It would tear our country apart" (Sunday) + prove your right to stay (Monday) + maybe apply some new rules but not others (Tuesday)
October 21, 2025 at 12:13 PM
It was never about 'following the rules', coming 'illegally', or 'skipping the line'. It was always about moving the goalpost further and further away, starting from the most vulnerable
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October 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
💥Want to turn research into resistance?💥
Join Corporate Watch’s 2-day event
Fri 28th and Sat 29th Nov - London
🔍Trace money & influence
🔥Expose corporate profiteers
✊Build powerful campaigns
Free for grassroots activists • Spaces limited!
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Join Corporate Watch’s 2-day event
Fri 28th and Sat 29th Nov - London
🔍Trace money & influence
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The 10th issue of the #ExternalisationBulletin is out now 🚨
It covers:
• Progress on plans for major migration routes
• Frontex projects proposed in Egypt & Morocco
• Potential deportations from EU to Côte d’Ivoire
• & more.
Full issue, compiled by @freylindsay.bsky.social, here:
buff.ly/bWL4McV
It covers:
• Progress on plans for major migration routes
• Frontex projects proposed in Egypt & Morocco
• Potential deportations from EU to Côte d’Ivoire
• & more.
Full issue, compiled by @freylindsay.bsky.social, here:
buff.ly/bWL4McV
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The 10th issue of the #ExternalisationBulletin is out now 🚨
It covers:
• Progress on plans for major migration routes
• Frontex projects proposed in Egypt & Morocco
• Potential deportations from EU to Côte d’Ivoire
• & more.
Full issue, compiled by @freylindsay.bsky.social, here:
buff.ly/bWL4McV
It covers:
• Progress on plans for major migration routes
• Frontex projects proposed in Egypt & Morocco
• Potential deportations from EU to Côte d’Ivoire
• & more.
Full issue, compiled by @freylindsay.bsky.social, here:
buff.ly/bWL4McV
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Spying on students for arms companies. It's despicable.
UK universities need to ask themselves who they really serve and protect - war profiteers and genocide enablers, or their students fighting for peace?
UK universities need to ask themselves who they really serve and protect - war profiteers and genocide enablers, or their students fighting for peace?
UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show
Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Spying on students for arms companies. It's despicable.
UK universities need to ask themselves who they really serve and protect - war profiteers and genocide enablers, or their students fighting for peace?
UK universities need to ask themselves who they really serve and protect - war profiteers and genocide enablers, or their students fighting for peace?
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🙋 Our colleague @dianavolpe.bsky.social providing much needed insight on how Italy outsources its 'dirty work' to Libya as part of a migration agreement, and why recent attacks on rescue ships are unlikely to turn the tide ⤵️
www.rfi.fr/en/internati...
www.rfi.fr/en/internati...
Italy-Libya migration pact under scrutiny as bullets fly
Years of criticism of an EU-backed migration pact between Italy and Libya are coming to a head as migrant rescuers say the Libyan coastguard has begun firing directly at them.
www.rfi.fr
October 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM
🙋 Our colleague @dianavolpe.bsky.social providing much needed insight on how Italy outsources its 'dirty work' to Libya as part of a migration agreement, and why recent attacks on rescue ships are unlikely to turn the tide ⤵️
www.rfi.fr/en/internati...
www.rfi.fr/en/internati...
I shared some of my thoughts on the relationship between the EU, search and rescue NGOs, and the so-called Libyan coast guard in a conversation with Frey here:
Everybody knows the Libyan Coast Guard is involved in the mass abuse/torture/murder of people in Libya. Over the years this hasn't been enough for the EU to break off its partnership. The LCG is now targeting NGOs - apparently that used to be a Commission red line, but we'll see if it still is.
The Libyan Coast Guard fired hundreds of bullets at a rescue ship. The European Commission had suggested direct fire would be a ‘red line’. Now the line has been crossed, they show no signs of ending the partnership with Libya. ✍️ @freylindsay.bsky.social
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
September 18, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I shared some of my thoughts on the relationship between the EU, search and rescue NGOs, and the so-called Libyan coast guard in a conversation with Frey here:
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Good morning from Clare College, Cambridge!
We kick off the first day of our annual #BorderCrim2025 workshop this morning with a fantastic panel from our Border Policing and Emotions thematic group.
Find the whole program here: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
We kick off the first day of our annual #BorderCrim2025 workshop this morning with a fantastic panel from our Border Policing and Emotions thematic group.
Find the whole program here: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
September 18, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Good morning from Clare College, Cambridge!
We kick off the first day of our annual #BorderCrim2025 workshop this morning with a fantastic panel from our Border Policing and Emotions thematic group.
Find the whole program here: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
We kick off the first day of our annual #BorderCrim2025 workshop this morning with a fantastic panel from our Border Policing and Emotions thematic group.
Find the whole program here: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
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Interested in any of these titles? Come and review one for us! Book reviewers receive a free e-copy or print copy in exchange for 750-1,000 words of their insight into the text. Email our book reviews editor nayera.bordercrim[at]gmail.com for more info 📖
August 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Interested in any of these titles? Come and review one for us! Book reviewers receive a free e-copy or print copy in exchange for 750-1,000 words of their insight into the text. Email our book reviews editor nayera.bordercrim[at]gmail.com for more info 📖
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Government plans to halve the ‘move on period’ for Refugees, reducing it to 28 days.
28 days to find a job, get a deposit, and find somewhere to live. Thousands of street homeless refugees by the time winter hits.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
28 days to find a job, get a deposit, and find somewhere to live. Thousands of street homeless refugees by the time winter hits.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Charities warn of rise in rough sleeping among refugees this winter in UK
Ministers urged to rethink plan to halve period asylum seekers given to find housing after decision on their case
www.theguardian.com
August 27, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Government plans to halve the ‘move on period’ for Refugees, reducing it to 28 days.
28 days to find a job, get a deposit, and find somewhere to live. Thousands of street homeless refugees by the time winter hits.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
28 days to find a job, get a deposit, and find somewhere to live. Thousands of street homeless refugees by the time winter hits.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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In just over 11 minutes, Removed reveals the harsh reality of immigration detention for racialised women. This powerful film was created by @aviddetention.bsky.social, Unchained Collective, Francesca Esposito, survivors and grassroots groups.
Watch here ⤵️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=287m...
Watch here ⤵️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=287m...
What Really Happens in UK Immigration Detention? | Removed Exposes the Truth
YouTube video by AVID Detention
www.youtube.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM
In just over 11 minutes, Removed reveals the harsh reality of immigration detention for racialised women. This powerful film was created by @aviddetention.bsky.social, Unchained Collective, Francesca Esposito, survivors and grassroots groups.
Watch here ⤵️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=287m...
Watch here ⤵️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=287m...
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It says a lot about where we're going that the BBC is now running stories in which they ask lifeboat crews whether they will apologise for using their boats to save lives
July 30, 2025 at 8:03 AM
It says a lot about where we're going that the BBC is now running stories in which they ask lifeboat crews whether they will apologise for using their boats to save lives
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For @eualive.bsky.social: EU Migration chief Brunner has begun talking about the 'weaponisation' of migration from Libya to the EU, orchestrated by Russia and Belarus - suggesting he may be considering invoking 'hybrid warfare' to justify harsher (or more openly harsh) methods in the Mediterranean.
Internal Affairs Commissioner seeks new migration deals in Libya
European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner is expected to travel to Libya ...
eualive.net
July 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
For @eualive.bsky.social: EU Migration chief Brunner has begun talking about the 'weaponisation' of migration from Libya to the EU, orchestrated by Russia and Belarus - suggesting he may be considering invoking 'hybrid warfare' to justify harsher (or more openly harsh) methods in the Mediterranean.