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SOS Humanity @sos-humanity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
While the Justice Fleet keeps fighting for people's freedom to move, the Italian government keeps detaining and fining civil search and rescue ships, like Sea Punks. But the courts tend to agree with us: we defend the law, even if that means refusing illegitimate orders from Italian authorities. 1/2
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The new ‘migrant-smuggler’ term makes way for reduced sentences, or even acquittal, for migrants who took the helm under duress or performed occasional tasks. But it leaves a punitive framework intact. Read today’s blog post by Stefano Zirulia ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨 CfP: Contested access: methods, scrutiny, and solidarity at the border 🚨 Our annual workshop's theme will be focusing on creative research methodologies, access strategies, and solidarity in an era of unprecedented narrowing of possibilities. Read more below 👇 www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
Border Criminologies Annual Workshop 2027: Contested Access: Methods, Scrutiny and Solidarity at the Border. 10-11 May 2027, Salle spaak, Institut d'études européennes
Centre de Recherche et études en politique internationale (REPI),
 Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. 

Underneath, a photo of a sticker that says 'no one is illegal' on the wall in front of a detention centre.
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Attacks, impunity and dangerous conduct of identified and unidentified actors reveal an increasingly lawless environment at sea, with people crossing facing extreme violence. Read today’s blog post by @sos-humanity.bsky.social ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A new thematic series critically examines the entanglements between healthcare provision and state violence in detention centres in Greece and Italy. Read today’s blog post by @andrianifili.bsky.social and Francesca Esposito ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Women seeking asylum experienced specific structural harms as mothers – but many also said their parental role provided a source of strength. Read today’s blog post by @amycortvriend.bsky.social and Vardan Petrosian ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“what happens when the oversight mechanism becomes absorbed into the institutional landscape it is meant to scrutinise?… The [EC] of Human Rights has repeatedly found #Greece in violation of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights for inhuman & degrading treatment in detention”
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The Supporting Survival toolkit blends research and practice to support survivors, students and practitioners - it’s a crucial antidote to the stigma and silencing of torture. Read today’s blog post by @vcanning.bsky.social ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Limited access and resources, as well structural limitations, all weaken safeguards against abuse. Read today's blog post by @andrianifili.bsky.social on how the Greek detention system deflects scrutiny ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Spain, Morocco and smugglers played their part. But 78,000 people were ready to cross into Ceuta because the conditions for ‘escape’ had been met long ago. Read today's blog post by @benharrousse.bsky.social ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
Quote: “Understanding what really happened at the Ceuta border means looking at how people actually talk about leaving, rather than at what officials say about them afterward [...] A less registered term is lharba (Arabic for ‘escape’), which names a condition one can be in for years [...] Using the word lharba puts you inside the same community of the stuck.”
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The last UK prime minister promised new digital immigration checks – but digital systems already exist, and they’re impacting migrants’ ability to exercise their rights. Read today's blog post by Marie Godin and @deryaozkul.bsky.social ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Pamphlets played a significant role in the sentencing of the Prairieland Detention Centre protestors – punished with 30-100 years in prison. It’s a telling case of the power of radical social expression. Read today's blog post by @erinrouton.bsky.social ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Over 30 countries now receive non-national deportees from the US, as a more direct form of punishment against migrant populations intensifies. Read today's blog post by Carina Trabalón and Amalia Campos-Delgado ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"It adds insult to injury that the forces responsible for the same extractive economy that creates exploitative migration arrangements now also gain further wealth and power from attacking people on the move." Interesting deep dive from RI 👇 reactionary.international/cases/first-...
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First They Came For the Migrants
A Research Consortium on the Illicit Network Undermining Democracy Across the World
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Di Volpe @divolpe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Publication alert! My first article is out in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (open access!) In the article, I put current Italy-Libya cooperation on migration control and its legitimation within the Italian sphere in historical context through Stoler's concept of colonial aphasia.
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Out of sight, out of mind: Italy-Libya and its colonial past and present
Contemporary cooperation between Italy and Libya on migration control is often analysed in a vacuum, framed as a pragmatic response to human trafficking and irregular migration. This article argues...
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Our thematic groups have had a rich year, with new research projects, institutions, events, and workshops aimed at generating productive knowledge exchange. Read more on our annual report here ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Throughout the year we showcased a diverse and creative range of work on our blog, and organised many events, including workshops, seminars, and book launches. Find out more on our annual report here ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This year, we have demonstrated a deep commitment to public engagement, bridging academic research with advocacy, media, and policy influence. Read about this and more on our annual report here ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Our team are taking a break from publishing this month. Many thanks to all our contributors and readers – we look forward to returning in September! Check out our annual report to see what we've been up to this year ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
It's that time of year again, see the amazing stuff going at @bordercrim.bsky.social in our annual report... scroll down to link to the full report: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Annual Report 2025-2026
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Oxford Criminology @oxfordcrim.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
For those of interested in border control see what our colleagues @bordercrim.bsky.social have been up to this year…
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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Very excited to have come home to this by my lovely @oxfordcrim.bsky.social colleague Alethia. A great new addition to the English langauge lit on immigration detention — all about detention in Mexico, based on years of research. We will formally launch it @bordercrim.bsky.social after the summer
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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I missed this post last week because was on holiday — given what is happening in Spain right now seems a good time to check it out
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
We've had a busy year! Find out what we've been up to in our annual report. 📚👇 Thank you to all our members, collaborators, supporters and followers, for continuing to show up for each other and bringing in renewed strength and commitment to critical scholarship. blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Militarigration constitutes a stage of securitisation of migration, specific to the eastern EU border, effectively merging border security and national defence. Read the blog post by Witold Klaus and Magdalena Kmak here ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
You can read more of Nicola's work on the UK/Rwanda asylum agreement on our blog! tinyurl.com/nikkipalmer
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Negotiating a ‘fair price’ for migration partnerships
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Nicola Palmer @nicolapalmer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The UK/Rwanda asylum agreement & the judicial review that found it unlawful relied on a deep racialisation of Rwanda, while leaving open the potential for regressive safe third country agreements. My paper is out with the LRIL @bordercrim.bsky.social @pashukanist.bsky.social @uctlaw.bsky.social
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Distributing mobility: regressive asylum agreements and racialised difference
Abstract. In AAA (Syria) and others, the United Kingdom Supreme Court found the migration agreement, under which the UK could forcibly transfer asylum-seek
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Spain's regularisation was made possible by the joyful and creative mobilisation of migrant women. By foregrounding care, they helped secure legal status for the most vulnerable. Read today's blog post by Lauren Couraut ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Sunjay Gookooluk’s testimony reveals grave institutional violence in Rome's Ponte Galeria detention centre – demonstrating that closing the facility is a compelling legal and human rights imperative. Ludovica Grassi reviews his new book ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Last month, we were joined by a wide and talented panel to launch the new book, 'Detention and Deportation in Europe: Analyses, Contestations, and Radical Visions in the Aftermath of COVID-19'. Watch the discussion ⤵️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xyE...
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Detention and Deportation in Europe: Analyses, Contestations and Radical Visions After Covid-19
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Over 25 young people have been forcibly removed to France as part of the UK's 'one in one out', despite flawed age assessments. Research from @jrsuk.bsky.social and @humansforrights.bsky.social show the scheme is putting children at risk. Read today's blog post ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The Conversation Continues: Day 2 at CINETS 2026 The morning opened with the keynote session Violence, Resistance, and the Limits of Law in Crimmigration Regimes, featuring Gil Rothschild Elyassi, Jasmin Lilian Diab and Tendai John Mutambu.
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
CINETS 2026 opened at the Wereldmuseum Leiden yesterday, hosted by the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance, and Society, Leiden Law School, @leidenlaw.bsky.social, Leiden University @unileiden.bsky.social and @bordercrim.bsky.social Border Criminologies, running from 5 to 7 July.
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
A week in limbo showed this author a form of border control that operates through ambiguity, opacity, and self-policing. Read today's blog post by Rameen Naseem ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
A report has commended Derwentside detention centre for its ‘good’ outcomes – but no matter how much carceral spaces are ‘improved’ via reform, they still produce harm. Read today's blog post by Renzo Szkwarok ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
Card with the quote: "Though there may be instances of good, careful work done by staff as this report opens with, this examination reveals deeper, structural complexities and problems with the present immigration system that unevenly harm detained women. No amount of reform will eradicate harm from this privatised, punitive system of control."
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Two men who fled extreme danger in Afghanistan and Sudan have been handed prison sentences for 'endangering life at sea’, a cruel new offence that punishes the very people it claims to protect. Read the piece by @vickytaylor.bsky.social for @opendemocracy.net www.opendemocracy.net/a-cruel-new-...
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A cruel new law is scapegoating refugees for UK’s harmful border policies
In court, I saw two refugees jailed for ‘endangering life at sea’ – a new offence that punishes those it claims to protect
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Marginalised communities living on India's riverine borderlands have been disproportionately impacted by a mass deletion of ‘doubtful’ voters – leaving some vulnerable to deportation. Read our latest blog post by Panchali Ray ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Antonella Napolitano @svaroschi.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
One of the biggest feature in developing research is the opportunity to speak to people affected AND have them inform potential alternatives to the status quo. For a recent report, I spoke with 160 people from every region. Some principles and experiences: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Rethinking tech in alternatives to detention: 10 principles
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Nicola Palmer @nicolapalmer.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Thanks to @janethanderson.bsky.social, @svdberg.bsky.social & John Bosco Siboyintore for the opportunity to talk about all things relating to #Rwanda, border control & universal jurisdiction. @uctlaw.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social @benjaminthorne.bsky.social
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Episode 160 – Universal Jurisdiction and Rwanda with John Bosco Siboyintore and Nicola Palmer
As universal jurisdiction gains momentum worldwide, we spoke with John Bosco Siboyintore and Nicola Palmer about its potential to close the accountability gap left by the 1994 Genocide Against the …
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Antonella Napolitano @svaroschi.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Thanks to @bordercrim.bsky.social for hosting this 2-part analysis. Part 1 of the report with a focus on tech as alternate form of detention is here: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Alternatives to detention: How tech ‘solutions’ expand
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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Always one of the loveliest things we do @bordercrim.bsky.social. it's great to see all the energetic young scholars out there and I'm very appreciative to our committee who take the time read and decide between the dissertations we receive.
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Congratulations to the winners of this year's masters dissertation prize! 🎉 Giovanna da Custódia won with a thesis on the use of AI-powered surveillance tech in US immigration, and Simone Schwab was runner up with a thesis on criminalised boat drivers in Samos. www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Recent invocation of a post-partition expulsion law reveals the hollowness of procedural protections in India’s citizenship regime. Read today's blog post by Vibha Swaminatha ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
When does care become control? ⛓️‍💥 Can we imagine more just modes of care? It was a pleasure to meet last month & hear about ever-valuable work across the network! Thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social and @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social for the support & everyone who came & shared insights & experiences.
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Between territories and hostile systems, survivors and crew on a rescue boat imagine radical alternatives through care. Read the latest blog post by Melissa Pawson ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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SOS MEDITERRANEE @sosmediterranee.org · 08/06/2026
🚨Shipwreck off #Malta: 11 bodies recovered. It's not a tragic accident but the foreseeable consequences of political choices: 👉The withdrawal of state-led search and rescue efforts. 👉The outsourcing of border control. 👉The criminalization of solidarity. timesofmalta.com/article/ship...
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Shipwreck off Malta: 53 people rescued, 11 bodies recovered
'Every life lost is one too many': Home Affairs Minister Glenn Bedingfield
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
A woman’s body found at sea is part of a decade of evidence of structural exposure to death, maintained by state policies in the Central Med. From @msdionis.bsky.social @sosmediterranee.org today ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Powerful stories from participants with experience of immigration detention in police custody this week with @aviddetention.bsky.social. People selected items to tell their stories– A clock: "I lost so much time." Wool: "I couldn't find the end of the thread." A dog: "they treated us like dogs."
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
📆 This Tuesday! Join the launch of Detention & Deportation in Europe. Spanning carceral border regimes & interspersed with poetic reflections, the book is a radical critique of detention and deportation systems. @drtdegenhardt.bsky.social @bupjournals.bsky.social www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
People’s rights get compromised when systems prioritise cost-saving and efficiency – the WFP-Palantir data breach is the latest example of that. But co-created tech can help migrants flourish instead. Read part 2 of tech in ATD by @svaroschi.bsky.social ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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