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...

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...

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...

Annual Report 2025-2026

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For those of interested in border control see what our colleagues @bordercrim.bsky.social have been up to this year…

Mary Bosworth@mfbosworth.bsky.social · 2w ago

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...

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

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

Border Criminologies@bordercrim.bsky.social · 3w ago

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...

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...

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...

You can read more of Nicola's work on the UK/Rwanda asylum agreement on our blog! tinyurl.com/nikkipalmer

Negotiating a ‘fair price’ for migration partnerships

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Nicola Palmer@nicolapalmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

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

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

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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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...

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...

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...

Detention and Deportation in Europe: Analyses, Contestations and Radical Visions After Covid-19

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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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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-...

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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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...

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...

Rethinking tech in alternatives to detention: 10 principles

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Border Criminologies@bordercrim.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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...

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

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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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...

Alternatives to detention: How tech ‘solutions’ expand

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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.

Border Criminologies@bordercrim.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

🚨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...

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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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...