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Hallam Tuck

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Lecturer in Criminology, City St George’s University of London. Border criminology, migration, punishment, incarceration.

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Hallam Tuck @hallamtuck.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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...
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Geopolitics
The Constitution and Contestablity of Borders. Volume 30, Issue 5 of Geopolitics
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
We're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.
Chart showing Detention Population, Among Those Arrested by ICE in the Interior, by Criminal Record. The data goes back to 2019 and is divided into three groups of people who were arrested by ICE: Any prior conviction, pending charges, and no criminal record. The chart shows that until 2025, the single largest group was always people with prior criminal convictions. But starting in the Trump admin, the population of people arrested with no criminal record began skyrocketing. It surpassed people with pending criminal charges in June and is now extremely close to those with prior convictions.
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Theo Kindynis @kindynis.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
This video shows how much support there was for the motion - almost unanimous!
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Theo Kindynis @kindynis.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Yesterday the President (Michele Burman) and Executive Board of the European Society of Criminology brought the society into disrepute by refusing to allow a vote on collaboration with Israeli academic institutions complicit in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Statement by Criminologists for Palestine:
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ESC General Assembly shows overwhelming support for motion; ESC Board denies vote
We, Criminologists for Palestine, are writing to express our profound shock at the decision of the European Society of Criminology (ESC) Executive Board to openly subvert the democratic will of its…
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Our new report (led by @vickytaylor.bsky.social) provides a critical update on the UK government’s continued prosecution and imprisonment of people seeking safety—including refugees, trafficking survivors, and children—simply for arriving by ‘small boat’: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...
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Peter Rees @peternrees.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I just got round to watching Samuel Storey's film on the use of AI technology to prevent and criminalise migration in the Channel. It's super well-researched, well-made and deeply troubling. I highly recommend watching it. migrantsrights.org.uk/projects/hos...
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The UK’s AI Borders: Anduril’s Autonomous Surveillance Towers - Migrants' Rights Network
Anduril Autonomous Surveillance Towers (ASTs) are scanning the Channel for people seeking safety on the South-East Coast of England.
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
on point meme by Abhiram Krishna.
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Hallam Tuck @hallamtuck.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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!
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The step-up in anti-migrant rhetoric from the government is shameful and dangerous. Migrants are our neighbours, friends and family. To suggest that Britain risks becoming “an island of strangers” because of immigration mimics the scaremongering of the far-right.
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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
worth reading as we look forward to ever more 'control'... and speeded up returns blah blah blah
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Remarkable from WaPo poll: Trump sinking fast on immigration among independents. 56% disapprove of handling of issue 62% oppose removing foreign students 52% oppose renditions to El Salvador Only 21% want Abrego Garcia left there Engage, Dems. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1944...
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Trump Is Suddenly Bleeding Independents. A Brutal New Poll Shows Why.
Immigration was his best issue in the polls. But now he's sinking on it. Maybe Americans care about the rule of law after all.
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Craig Gilmore @craiggilmore.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Solar panels, heat pumps, & "about 600 jobs have been created" #CarceralLabour
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
NEW: As the Trump administration ramps up arrests and heavily limits releases on bond, conditions at ICE’s Krome detention facility in Miami have deteriorated into that of a third world prison, with people forced to sleep on concrete floors jammed in like sardines in appalling conditions.
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‘Inhumane:’ Overcrowding strains Krome detention center amid Trump’s immigrant crackdown
Girl to police: “Don’t take my mom.”
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Read @aviddetention.bsky.social's review of @mfbosworth.bsky.social's Supply Chain Justice: "[I]t is people who are the 'product' — people who arrive or stay in the UK and are subject to detention, people who are sorted, managed, moved, and monetised." www.aviddetention.org.uk/article/refl...
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Reflections on
This is a book review, reflection and summary of Mary Bosworth's (Professor of Criminology at Border Criminologies) recently published book,
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
'Balancing the books' on the backs of poor and disabled people was wrong when the Tories did it, and it would be wrong now. It’s a political choice - one that could push 700,000 households into poverty. Our government should instead tax the ballooning wealth of the super-rich.
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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I spoke to the Today Programme this morning about why cuts to disabilty benefits are a political choice - and the wrong one.
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Vicky Taylor @vickytaylor.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The Border Security Bill seeks to further criminalise people seeking safety in the UK Read about the current situation where people are imprisoned for crossing the Channel, & concerns about the new Bill here: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi... @bordercrim.bsky.social @captainsupportuk.bsky.social
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Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) @curbprisons.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
"the mass detention and deportation plans advanced by President-elect Trump rely, in part, on utilizing the beds available in local jails, supplemented by temporary and private facilities, to detain many more immigrants." www.vera.org/news/jailing...
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Jailing for Profit: When Budgets Depend on Locking People Up
Across the country, more than 1,300 counties have expanded existing jails or built new ones over the last 20 years—increasing the nation’s capacity to lock people up in jails by almost 40 percent. One...
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Hallam Tuck @hallamtuck.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
US Crim/imm folks - can anyone point me to a detailed analysis of the Laken Riley Act? E.g. INA 236(c) already mandates detention of those who commit specific offenses. Aside from obvious net widening, how would the mandatory detention provision of the LRA change this?
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Detention Watch Network @detentionwatchnetwork.org · 22/01/2025
Private prisons are rejoicing at the prospect of S5 being signed into law. S5 would target thousands more people into a deadly immigration detention system. Before it reaches Trump’s desk, the House will vote today or Thursday. 🚨TAKE ACTION: actionnetwork.org/letters/no-t...
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NO to S.5 (Laken Riley)
Last week, the House of Representatives passed the Laken Riley Act and the Senate is moving through a series of procedural votes towards passage of the bill, which exploits an awful tragedy to drastic...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
As Congress continues to debate the Laken Riley Act, which Senator Britt inaccurately says makes relatively modest changes to law, ICE itself is telling Congress that the bill would cost over $25 billion and would be "impossible to execute."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Letitia James comes out in opposition to the Laken Riley Act, joining a growing number of law enforcement officials who have raised the alarm about the way the bill undermines due process protections and threatens to divert resources away from more serious offenses. www.amny.com/news/ag-leti...
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AG Letitia James urges Senate to reject Laken Riley Act, citing threats to due process and public safety | amNewYork
State Attorney General Letitia James is calling on U.S. senators to reject S.5, the Laken Riley Act, which seeks to expand federal detention of undocumented
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Border Criminologies, in partnership with the Greek Council for Refugees, has published a report on access to justice for refugees in Greece, based on research conducted by researcher and lawyer Vivi Paschalidou. Read our full report here: buff.ly/3BUOmm4
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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I am hoping to hear more from the methodologists on this (@juliagelatt.bsky.social help) but here’s a thread on why I’m not taking the NYT “more immigration than Ellis Island era” finding as gospel until I know more about its non-traditional data sources.
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Please share: each year Border Crim runs a master's dissertation prize. Our call opened last month and will stay open until March. All info here: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...
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Border Criminologies Masters' Dissertation/Thesis
Border Criminologies seeks to support early career researchers working on citizenship, migration and
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Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
What if the majority of people denied asylum in the United States are: a) Telling the truth, b) In real danger of persecution, and yet c) Still denied asylum on legal technicalities? That's the bombshell finding of a landmark new study. bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/317...
Article title and abstract
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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
been sayin
Virginia. This was the moment when the last hot flashes of the Cold War in Central
America were turning to embers. The wrap-up of wars tend to produce surpluses seeking opportunities for reinvestment. The counterinsurgency tactics applied in the recalcitrant Guatemalan highlands would be urbanized, brought home, now as a new investment in a flagging war on drugs launched by a three-way coalition of white Southern Democrats, Black Northern Democrats, and white Republicans.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The most basic way to check whether immigrants "bring crime" is to ask whether the share of the population that is foreign-born correlates in any way with the crime rate (it doesn't). This is such a simple analytical method that it was used all the way back in 1912! www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2...
TABLE V NUMBER OF CONVICTIONS COMPARED WITH TOTAL AND FOREIGN-BORN POPULATION, I850-I900. The table lists statistics for 6 census periods. A glance at the diagram shows that in i86o, when the rate of increase of the foreign-born population was at its apex, the rate of criminality was at its bottom. Toward I870 the rate of increase of the foreign born dropped, but the rate of increase of the number of convictions made a big jump. From i88o to I890 the rate of increase of the foreign born went up, at the same time the rate of increase of the number of convictions went down. From I890 to I900 the two movements were reversed. In short, an increase of the percentage of the foreign-born population is accompanied by a decrease of criminality, and vice versa.
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Hallam Tuck @hallamtuck.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
@dorinadamsa.bsky.social and I have a chapter in the new border crim handbook. We examine the history of the idea of segregating prisons according to citizenship, and try to make sense of the ways that this kind policy has made the prison into a site of nation-building.
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Dorina Damsa @dorinadamsa.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
New, brilliant, and engaging Handbook on Border Criminology, edited by @mfbosworth.bsky.social, Katja Franko, Maggy Lee, and Rimple Mehta, investigating the nature and impact of intersections between border control and criminal justice.
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Handbook on Border Criminology
‘An excellent, interdisciplinary Handbook produced “in the shadow” of Ukraine and Gaza, this volume places before us the challenges of building critical decolonial knowledge in the field of border cri...
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Vicky Taylor @vickytaylor.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
We are in court this morning for Ibrahima's permission to appeal hearing. Ibrahima Bah is in prison for steering a dinghy across the Channel. He was sentenced to 9.5 years in prison in Feb 24. Follow: @captainsupportuk.bsky.social @freeibrahimabah.bsky.social @humansforrights.bsky.social
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Anyone else been listening to #FileOn4 & absolutely fuming at the the scandal of university funding? Industrial scale exploitation of foreign students, used as cash cows with no regard for their plausible ability to complete the courses. International recruitment agencies raking in the profits...
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Di Volpe @divolpe.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Thank you for the shout out @right-to-remain.bsky.social ! New items on the Keep Campsfield Closed shop, funding the campaign, right in time for christmas: keepcampsfieldclosed.teemill.com So many other fantastic organisations featured in the guide below!
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
New to BlueSky! We are Border Criminologies at the University of Oxford. We bring together academics, practitioners, and those who have experienced border control from around the world, showcasing original research from a range of perspectives. Check out our website: www.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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Border Criminologies | Faculty of Law
Border Criminologies is an international network of researchers, practitioners, and those who
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