Just a few hours left to apply to our masters' dissertation prize for 2026! The winner and runner up will receive £200 and £100 in books from @routledgebooks.bsky.social and have their work featured on the Border Criminologies blog. Deadline midnight tonight 📚👇
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Graphic card with text: "As the state has turned to the communicative capacity of penal power because it has lost the ability to cohere political order and define the benefits of citizenship through other means. To understand the Detention Reengineering Initiative, we must understand how our authoritarian present is a product of failed attempts to manage political crises through crimmigration in the past."
As ICE vastly expands its detention portfolio, analytical responses must consider the history of failed crimmigration, so as to reorient towards a different future. Read the latest blog post by @hallamtuck.bsky.social 👇
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📣 Call for Papers: Coloniality of the modern state
Submit by 15 May to present at the Brussels workshop in November.
This CfP asks: Can the modern state function as an instrument of decolonization? Or can the master’s tools ever dismantle the master’s house? 👇
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📆 Join us in London next Tuesday! Prof. Devyani Prabhat will be launching her new book, Migrating Borders and Citizenship in Law, which examines case law, legislation and press accounts around several key events that changed the legal landscape on migration control 👇
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We’ve signed an open letter to the Home Secretary with a clear message:
Cutting protection for refugees will cause real harm. ❌
For people who have fled unimaginable violence and torture, this constant uncertainty is “terrifying, retraumatising, and can undermine progress towards recovery.”
Reviews should address the book's contribution to the field, what those interested in border criminologies may gain from the book, or how it appealed to you and impacted your work. Share with a friend or colleague who you think might be interested! 📚
5. The Borders of America: Migration, Control, and Resistance Across Latin America and the Caribbean, Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Nicholas De Genova, Gustavo Dias, Eduardo Domenech
3. Sanctuary Making: Immigrant Families Reshaping Geographies of Deportability, Carolina Valdivia
4. The Borders of Responsibility: Migration Control in the Mediterranean Sea, Kiri Olivia Santer
1. Detention and Deportation in Europe: Analyses, Contestations, and Radical Visions in the Aftermath of COVID-19, Francesca Esposito, Teresa Degenhardt and Annika Lindberg
2. Responses to Sea Migration and the Rule of Law, Katia Bianchini
Blue and orange graphic with 5 book covers – Call for reviews: Detention and Deportation in Europe; Responses to Sea Migration and the Rule of Law; Sanctuary Making; The Borders of Responsibility; The Borders of America
📚 We're looking for book reviews! Send us your take on one of these new titles (750-1000 words) and you'll receive a free print or e-copy. Get in touch with Nayera nayera.bordercrim[at]gmail.com for more info. Full book list and details in following posts 👇
In Venezuela’s communes, moralising narratives of emigration as ‘betrayal’ are reproduced, aiding government border-making. Read the latest blog post ⤵️
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Just 5 days left to apply to our masters' dissertation prize for 2026! The winner and runner up will receive £200 and £100 in books from @routledgebooks.bsky.social and have their work featured on the Border Criminologies blog. More info 📚👇
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...
Section 46 of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill in the UK grants the Secretary of State the power to impose a range of counter-terror-style ‘conditions’ on those with limited leave to remain. ⤵️
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"The lack of procedural safeguards and the wide-ranging nature of these new powers raise significant concerns regarding the rights of all non-nationals in the UK." See today's blog post @bordercrim.bsky.social on new government powers against non-nationals: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
Really important research about #AccessToJustice with implications wider than just for immigration hearings.
The need for representation and the still unknown impact of virtual hearings on justice outcomes are universal issues.
"Legal representation at a hearing makes a big difference to the chance of success – our 2013 report found that the applicant with legal representation had a 500% greater chance of a successful outcome. But legal advice was often not available: a 2025 survey by BID found that just 38% of respondents had legal representation. And in many cases, even if legal advice is available, it is not of a sufficient standard to meet the needs of the client."
As public scrutiny over the UK’s courts declines, the third report of the Bail Observation Project marks some key changes to immigration bail hearings. With data from @biddetention.bsky.social ⤵️
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Recent changes to refugee status in the UK avoided parliamentary scrutiny, facing refugees with 20 years of recurring costs and bureaucracy to maintain their rights. Read the latest blog post by Kabir Joshi of @wilsonsolicitors.bsky.social ⤵️
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North/South migration diplomacy laid bare as the UK & Rwanda dispute in The Hague. My latest @bordercrim.bsky.social
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@mollyquell.bsky.social @lizziedearden.bsky.social @fionaadamson.bsky.social @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social @hhesterm.bsky.social
Amid the £100m Rwanda-UK dispute at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, migration management partnerships are emerging as a key site of North/ South diplomacy. Read the new post by @nicolapalmer.bsky.social ⤵️
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An extremely moving piece today @bordercrim.bsky.social on the ethical challenges of writing with and about refugees and sea crossings blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
🎓 Calling all masters' graduates from 2025! There's less than a month left to apply for the Border Criminologies masters' dissertation prize. Submit your thesis and a 300 word abstract by 20 April and be in with a chance to win up to £200 worth of Routledge books 📚👇
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A new report by Travis Van Isacker @borderforensics.bsky.social found that deaths in the Channel rose after a major UK-France deal to 'stop the boats' ⤵️
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A new report from Travis Van Isacker and Michel Stanislas at @borderforensics.bsky.social shows that UK govt 'stop the boats' policy has led to an increase in deaths.
The Independent reports on it today: bit.ly/41wdqJ6
backdrop of a boat at sea, seen from above. “Unlike research in other contexts, the consequences of information-sharing in maritime refugee studies are not hypothetical. They are immediate, potentially fatal, and unequally distributed. They can include direct physical harm, imprisonment, extortion or death to themselves, family members or the community. Researchers bear minimal risk; refugees bear all of it.”
Scholars working with maritime refugees must sometimes practice strategic silence in order to also practice care. Read the latest blog post by Gerhard Hoffstaedter and Michael Gordon @anthropolitics.bsky.social ⤵️
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Sneak peek into a film created to accompany @mfbosworth.bsky.social's research on immigration detention as supply chains 👇
📆 Brussels friends! Join us on Wednesday to hear @mfbosworth.bsky.social speak about the nature and scale of violence in the ‘immigration detainee escorting system’, drawing on research for her book Supply Chain Justice 📦⤵️
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Many thanks to everyone who attended this recent event! It was a brilliant evening with thought-provoking contributions and questions @vickytaylor.bsky.social @hallamtuck.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social
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