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...

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.

This video shows how much support there was for the motion - almost unanimous!

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:

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...

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...

on point meme by Abhiram Krishna.

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!

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.

worth reading as we look forward to ever more 'control'... and speeded up returns blah blah blah

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...

Solar panels, heat pumps, & "about 600 jobs have been created" #CarceralLabour

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.

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...

'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.

I spoke to the Today Programme this morning about why cuts to disabilty benefits are a political choice - and the wrong one.

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

"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...

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?

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...

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."

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...

The same dudes who fetishize the supposed lost strength and competence of their forefathers want computers to write their emails for them.

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: https://buff.ly/3BUOmm4

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.

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...

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...

been sayin

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...

@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.

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.

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

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...

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!

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...