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 · last mo.

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...

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.

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...

ICE insists that it needs to spend $1B detaining people inside Delaney Hall to protect Americans from "murderers, rapists, and pedophiles." People inside and protestors outside say the facility is inhumane, exploitive, and unnecessary. What does the data say? 🧵

In Europe (and globally), technology tools have been extensively deployed in the different areas of migration governance but they are bound to expand. What's next? Alternatives To Detention. Glad to be back on @bordercrim.bsky.social to talk about an underresearched area of migration governance.

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

A new report reveals how ATD programmes are often simply another form of detention – and how tech can be used to promote rights instead. From @svaroschi.bsky.social today ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

🚨 I am so pleased that my contribution on the regularisation of undocumented migrants in Spain has been published by Border Criminologies! Check it out ⬇️ @bordercrim.bsky.social #regularisationmigration #Spain

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

Up to half a million migrants can apply for permits after Spain passed a landmark amendment. But it's not the first regularisation move – and critics say the policy doesn't go far enough. Read the new blog post by @ainoacabada.bsky.social ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

📆 Join us on 9 June for 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...

The University of Nottingham is cutting over 600 academic jobs. This includes 1 in 3 #geography lecturers. "The lecturers *are* the University, and without them it's nothing" - Geography student (BBC interview): www.instagram.com/reels/DYprAN...

BBC Nottingham on Instagram: "The action would "effectively block the university from handing out graduation certificates". Students have joined lecturers on the picket line at a protest over job los...

6,038 likes, 179 comments - bbceastmidlands on May 22, 2026: "The action would "effectively block the university from handing out graduation certificates". Students have joined lecturers on the picke...

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📢 Job Alert! 📢 Do you work on critical approaches to militarism, war, and technology? Do you have expereince teaching introductory and advanced courses in international relations? Then come and work with us at the University of Amsterdam. #AcademicSky werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

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The underlying rationale of the Code of Practice is gender essentialism. Its right there in 13.178 - The COP assumes that sex is observable and that can be assessed on basis of external perception. As such, it freezes people's expression to their biology.

The demand on doctors to declare a person 'fit' for immigration detention in Italy reveals a clinical paradox at the heart of the border regime. Read the latest blog post, on resisting the pathogenicity of immigration detention ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Only two days left to submit an abstract!

Di Volpe@divolpe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

CfP is out for our workshop in November. Deadline for submissions is in mid May. Hope to see you there! repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/cfp-colon... @sciencepoulb.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social

🔴 SHOTS FIRED Our Sea-Watch 5 is being shot at by the EU-funded so-called Libyan coastguard. Our crew just finished rescuing 90 people, but Libyan militias are still following us. They expressed the intent to abduct us to Libya!

Good morning from St Antony’s College, Oxford! 👋 We’ll be kicking off our Bordered Care workshop with a panel on The violence of care: detention, oversight and gendered border regimes. Stay tuned for updates! Programme 👉 www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

📣 Summer intern ad: Interested in critical research on borders, counter-mapping or counter-archiving? #DetentionLandscapes are looking for an intern (**unpaid) with strong writing/ editing/ research skills and ability to work independently. More info 👉 detentionlandscapes.uwazi.io/en/

📆 Join us next Tuesday in Oxford! Visiting Professor Surabhi Chopra will discuss her research on administrative detention in Hong Kong, and how activist groups advocate for reform. Sign up to attend in person 👇 www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

🧵 1. Many migrants classified as having irregular status entered the UK through formal routes and lost that status through no fault of their own. We've looked at how the immigration system itself drives irregularity.

Border crim colleagues, a great opportunity for comparative research on the criminalisation of solidarity 👇

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

Job opportunity 📣 MSF Belgium is looking for a capable researcher to lead a project on the criminalisation of solidarity. One month of fieldwork in the summer involved: www.msf-azg.be/en/job/resea...

📚 We're looking for book reviews! Send us your take on one of these new titles (750-1000 words) and you'll receive a free print or e-copy. Get in touch with Nayera nayera.bordercrim[at]gmail.com for more info. Full book list and details in following posts 👇

The EU outsources its abuses to Libya. Then outsources accountability for these abuses to Libya. Then outsources the vetting of the people committing them. Also to Libya. And when asked directly? Outsources the answer to bureaucratic fog. 🧵

Matthias Monroy@matthimon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

EU military mission #IRINI details training of militia members from #Benghazi. They were "part of the Libyan Navy", it says, with "no record of human rights violations". How could they know that they didn’t take part in shootings on NGO or refugee vessels? www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...

Section 46 of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill in the UK grants the Secretary of State the power to impose a range of counter-terror-style ‘conditions’ on those with limited leave to remain. ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

NEW op-ed: The “Everywhere Border”: How Technology Shapes Migration and Fuels Resistance While governments expand digital surveillance, migrant women and grassroots organisations are using it to build networks of care, resistance, and survival. migrantwomenpress.com/2026/04/09/t...

CfP is out for our workshop in November. Deadline for submissions is in mid May. Hope to see you there! repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/cfp-colon... @sciencepoulb.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social

Call for Papers: Coloniality of the modern state - REPI - Recherche et Etudes en Politique Internationale

This call for papers seeks contributions that engage with the following central questions: Can the modern state function as an instrument of decolonization? Or, as Audre Lorde suggested, can the master’s tools ever dismantle the master’s house? What can we learn from decoloniality as plural horizons of liberation, beyonde state-seeking naitonalisms?

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"The lack of procedural safeguards and the wide-ranging nature of these new powers raise significant concerns regarding the rights of all non-nationals in the UK." See today's blog post @bordercrim.bsky.social on new government powers against non-nationals: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Restricted leave and new government powers to curtail the

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Je maintiens à jour ici la carte des morts aux frontières. 👉 neocarto.github.io/missing-migr... Elle est à disposition. Sous licence ouverte. Téléchargeable en svg ou png.

Calling all gender and migration scholars, researchers and storytellers📣 This #WomensHistoryMonth, we're inviting proposals for Women on the Move, a series that foregrounds women’s experiences of mobility across time and space. Find out more on the blog: bit.ly/4dThMS6

Women on the Move: Call for Proposals - Manchester University Press

This Women's History Month, Manchester University Press is highlighting its Women on the Move series and inviting new proposals from scholars working on gender and migration.

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North/South migration diplomacy laid bare as the UK & Rwanda dispute in The Hague. My latest @bordercrim.bsky.social blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi... @mollyquell.bsky.social @lizziedearden.bsky.social @fionaadamson.bsky.social @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social @hhesterm.bsky.social

Negotiating a ‘fair price’ for migration partnerships

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All four countries have high recognition rates - there was a 98% grant rate for Cameroonians claiming on the basis of sexual orientation in the most recent stats open.substack.com/pub/thoughts...

The reality behind the Home Office's latest announcement on asylum work and study visas

The Home Office has made another announcement ahead of tomorrow’s statement of changes.

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Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Of course no one from *checks notes* Sudan or Afghanistan could be in genuine danger.

Today, the European parliament is likely to approve rules that would make it easier to deport rejected asylum seekers including to countries they have no connection to. This reform of the Return Regulation is a compromise backed by the centre and far right.

On March 9th, the European Parliament's LIBE Committee voted on its position on the contested Return Regulation proposal. @oliviasundberg.bsky.social discusses the dangers of this shift towards more draconian policies after rushed negotiations: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...