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Nik Ostrand @nikostrand.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

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...

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Geopolitics

The Constitution and Contestablity of Borders. Volume 30, Issue 5 of Geopolitics

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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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Department for Migration and Globalisation @demigkrems.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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...

An airplane navigating through a stormy sky, surrounded by heavy rain and dark clouds. | Photo credits: marsea / Adobe Stock

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Nik Ostrand @nikostrand.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Really looking forward to this talk based on my recent paper with the amazing @dorinadamsa.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

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...

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Creating counternarratives on immigration detention: from individual academic research to community-engaged participatory processes

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Nik Ostrand @nikostrand.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

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

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Nik Ostrand @nikostrand.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

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 🙏

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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...

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maurice stierl @mauricestierl.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

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. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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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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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

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.

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Vicki Squire @vickisquire.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

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Nicola Palmer @nicolapalmer.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

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...

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

📢 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:

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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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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

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: buff.ly/4fUKrn3

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