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Border Criminologies
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Border Criminologies draws together researchers working in #criminology on #bordercontrol. Retweets/links to media or other websites do not imply endorsements.

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Drawing on global migration stories, Sophia Balakian discovers in her new book how kinship is stratified by deservingness by border controls. See Researcher Rosa Sarakatsanou’s overview of the book: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
December 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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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...
“They’ve taken the best years of my life”, Aziz told me. He would not stop speaking out until all the camps were closed, he said. Those looking to Denmark for easy answers should instead find a cautionary tale. Sigrid Corry, on the parils of the 'danish model'
December 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Michael Vastine argues for the importance of the reinstatement of the “National Qualified Representative Program,” which offers legal representation to vulnerable migrants with mental health challenges, after it being cut by Trump's DOGE program.

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December 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Isabel Jess reviews The Shape of Belonging, where Özlem Ögtem-Young delves deeply into the complex nature of belonging among young unaccompanied migrants in the UK, drawing on interviews and interdisciplinary theories. Read the review here: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
November 28, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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"Both attorneys and smugglers do not merely respond to inequality, they help reproduce it." Marielys Padua Soto reflects on the effect of different actors working across the global migration regime, and how they sustain it.

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November 24, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Known for being a welfare state, Denmark has been increasingly using ‘penal power to regulate non-citizens’. This has created significant spillover effects on the country’s development aid for international migration. See the analysis: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Authors Kjersti Lohne, Andreea Ioana Alecu and Katrine Antonsen point out how "Swedish criminal justice policy reflects a shift towards a more punitive stance—a marked departure from the country's historical emphasis on rehabilitation and welfare."

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November 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Authors @kjerstilohne.bsky.social, Andreea Ioana Alecu, and Katrine Antonsen "map the intersections of humanitarian reason and penal governance in detail, focusing on forms of penality leaving Norway, Sweden and Denmark through development aid."

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November 17, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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📣 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

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poster detailing the information over a pink background: Join us next Monday, 17th November, to watch a short film about immigration detention, learn about the Coalition to Keep Campsfield Closed and find out how to get involved in opposing the reopening of a detention centre in Oxfordshire! Removed (2025) is a short film about gendered violence, resistance and solidarity in immigration detention made collaboratively by academics, activists and people with lived experience of detention. The screening will be followed by a conversation on immigration detention and the local Coalition to Keep Campsfield Closed that will include academic and activist perspectives, with speakers from Border Criminologies, the Association of Visitors to Immigration Detainees (AVID) and the Coalition to Keep Campsfield Closed. This event is jointly organized by STAR (Student Action for Refugees), Cuntry Living Zine at the University of Oxford and Border Criminologies.
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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In Supply Chain Justice: The Logistics of British Border Control, Professor Bosworth shows how the collaboration between border control and private sector generates profit and how it is normalised. Holly Bird offers a comprehensive overview of this book: lnkd.in/enqx4mzA
November 14, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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In May 2025, the UK Labour government published a new immigration white paper. Ananya Kumar-Banerjee discusses how it uses the spectre of illegal migrants to obscure the systematic exploitation of those on the move.

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November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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The increasing reliance on mobile data extraction in the EU asylum system is putting people at risk. Dr. Sanjeewani challenges the ethical and legal implications of this practice ⤵️

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November 7, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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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 👇
November 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Afghan refugees are on the front line of climate hazards in Karachi, Pakistan. And the increasing threat of deportation is making them more vulnerable to those hazards.

Read the new blog post by Nasrat Sayed and Zulfiqar Kunbhar ⤵️

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November 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Frontex in Focus explores the impunity surrounding top-down violence at global borders, with particular attention to the experiences of asylum seekers waiting at EU frontiers. Read the book review 📚⤵️

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October 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Ambiguity surrounding borders and their governance is a challenge for migrants on the island of Cyprus – the place with the highest per capita asylum applications in the EU in 2023.

Read the new blog post by Seçil Dağtaş, Aicha Lariani and Suzan Ilcan ⤵️
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October 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Over a million Rohingya refugees live in a legal vacuum in Bangladesh. This situation is not simply a humanitarian failure: it is a legal breach. Read the new blog post by Sakhawat Sajjat Sejan and Abu Bakker Siddiq ⤵️

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October 24, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Legal advocates are encouraging Thailand to change its interpretation of Section 268 of its Penal Code to protect refugees who use falsified documents to flee dangerous circumstances.

Read the new blog post from Jatuporn Cheewasrirungruang: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
October 20, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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📆 Join us for an online seminar next Thursday! @svaroschi.bsky.social will present a new co-authored report with the International Detention Coalition: 'From Surveillance to Empowerment: Advancing the Responsible Use of Tech in Alternatives to Detention'.

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October 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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The assumption that we live in a time of multiple migration crises has had a significant impact on how international migration is understood and addressed. That's why having clear definitions is so important.

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October 17, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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In their annual review, @medicaljustice.org.uk highlight how failures in clinical safeguards continued to put vulnerable people at unacceptable levels of risk and failed to prevent harm in immigration detention during 2024. Read the post by Ariel Plotkin ⤵️

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October 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Germany and Greece are quietly redefining EU asylum norms, by using national derogations to limit certain people's access to asylum. Read the new blog post from student researcher Ridam Gangwar ⤵️

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October 10, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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🔥 These things got us talking at our annual workshop: creatively disrupting hostile border systems; navigating abolition; borderless empires vs bordered reparations.

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October 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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In India and the US, protection for asylum seekers seems to rest on political discretion, not legal obligation. Read the new blog post on translating Indian journeys to the US ⤵️

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October 6, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Stateless children sometimes challenge the human rights violations that result from statelessness in court. In this new blog post, dissertation prize runner up Rachel Pop sheds light on her research on how certain elements of litigation may affect case outcome ⤵️

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October 3, 2025 at 8:15 AM