This is exciting! Our director, the brilliant @msumption.bsky.social, has written this super accessible and interesting book What is Immigration Policy For? (Spoiler alert: it’s complicated). Pre-order in the next three days for 25% off! Out on March 31 www.waterstones.com/book/what-is...

Thanks so much to @bordercrim.bsky.social for hosting this blog. One of the core findings of my book was around how models which were intended to support legal practitioners in helping their clients to show that they are, for example, a gay man were actually often working as a reason for refusal.

Read about the recent book on the history and present of Greek Immigration Detention by our @wellcometrust.bsky.social postdoc @andrianifili.bsky.social

Frameworks initially developed to help legal advisors support LGBTQ+ asylum claimants are increasingly used by decision-makers as reasons for refusal. @apowelllaw.bsky.social discusses the findings in his new book, Queering UK Refugee Law 📖👇 blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban

Caged Histories brings together over a decade of research on Greek immigration detention, shedding light on violence – and resistance – in these blind spots. On writing her book and making detention visible @andrianifili.bsky.social 📚⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

We're proud to join 20+ organisations to call out the extreme harms caused by the UK-France 'one in, one out' deal.⁣ ⁣ For one person to reach the UK safely from France, another must endure a dangerous journey, be denied safety, & then subjected to detention & forced removal.⁣ ⁣ tr.ee/0IhVJj 1/2

📆 Save the date! On 16 March, our co-director @mfbosworth.bsky.social will be hosting this exciting event. Three artists will present their music, film and poetry on border control, and discuss how it might be used in activism and policy work. Info & registration ➡️ www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

please don't forget if you have Master's students who wrote a great dissertation last year on a borders related topic to get them to submit it to @bordercrim.bsky.social for our annual dissertation prize. more info here: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...

The Backstage of the Care Economy examines the migration of women from Eastern Europe to provide domestic and care work in Western Europe – revealing the dynamics of households fractured by mobility. Read the book review 📚⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

📣📆 Italy-based friends & colleagues! Our co-director @andrianifili.bsky.social will present her new book, Caged Histories, at the University of Bologna on 16 Feb. The book brings together 10 yrs of research on violence & resistance in Greek detention. More info ⬇️ psicologia.unibo.it/it/agenda-ev...

One survivor told the inquiry that they were treated differently because they were refugees. This led to delays in the search and rescue mission. This is yet another tragic example of why racialised assumptions and racist rhetoric is so dangerous – it costs lives. news.sky.com/story/loss-o...

Systemic failures, missed opportunities to act, and chronic under-resourcing undermined search and rescue, leading to men, women, and children dying in the Channel. The findings of the Cranston Inquiry are truly devastating.

Now available on pre-order Wild Goose publications have surpassed themselves with their gorgeous production values for our second poetry collection based on our work with Cultures of Sustainable Peace www.ionabooks.com/product/fold...

Australia is using criminal law to control migrants on deportation pathways, in tandem with heightened immigration law restrictions – allowing the government to circumvent constitutional law limits on detention. Read the new blog post by Peter Billings ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

✍️ Are you conducting research, or have first-hand experience of border control? Want to share your perspective with the wider public? Write for us! We welcome contributions from practitioners, academics and people with lived experience. More info & how to submit ➡️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Five people confirmed dead so far and several people injured after a boat with people-smugglers carrying migrants collided with a Coastguard boat on the Greek island of #Chios on Tuesday night. Many are hospitalized while a Search and Rescue is underway for possible survivors.

Multiple factual misunderstandings persist in the way that immigration is often framed and discussed in media coverage and political commentary. Here some recurring new and old myths.

International Journal of Refugee Law – Call for Special Issue Proposals. Deadline for submission: 4th May 2026 academic.oup.com/ijrl/pages/i...

🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ Are you interested in guest-editing for Theoretical Criminology? #TheoreticalCrim is now accepting proposals for our 2028 special issue! Deadline for proposals is April 15, 2026. Find our full criteria here: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm....

Check out this fascinating method for studying immigration detention centres. More great work from @andrianifili.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social

I used this today in teaching about visual methods. Very effective!

🚫 Immigration detention facilities in Greece are often hidden from public view – a 3D modelling project brings new ways of documenting these spaces of confinement. Read more from @andrianifili.bsky.social 👇 blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Spain gets it: “The Spanish government on Tuesday unexpectedly issued a decree that gives undocumented migrants a path out of legal limbo, putting Spain at odds with many countries around the world that have grown increasingly tough on illegal immigration.” Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/w...

Amidst ICE's brutal crackdown in the US, immigration enforcement in Chicago has slowed. But in the aftermath of 'Operation Midway Blitz', community organisers describe the new, more subtle pains that have emerged. Read the new blog post from Monica Ruiz House ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

@mfbosworth.bsky.social on reflecting on hopeful pessimism while researching detention: "If the point of doing this research is to keep caring, we have to keep caring, without being cast adrift when our care does not yield the change we want to deliver"

📣 Happening now: @andrianifili.bsky.social shares the process of writing her new book, Caged Histories: “This is not only a book about violence, it is also about resistance […] resistance is a condition of detention itself.”

We've started! Join us online if you haven't yet ☝️

Amidst ICE's brutal crackdown in the US, immigration enforcement in Chicago has slowed. But in the aftermath of 'Operation Midway Blitz', community organisers describe the new, more subtle pains that have emerged. Read the new blog post from Monica Ruiz House ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Join us THIS THURSDAY for this IN-PERSON seminar: The Refugee Convention in a hostile world: diverse contexts of risk, 29 January 2026, 6pm-7pm, Woburn Room, G22, Ground Floor, Senate House rli.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #RefugeeConvention #InternationalLaw #Europe #UK #USA #SouthAfrica

What happened in the central Mediterranean in December? ➡️3.031 people reached Italy by sea ➡️936 departures from Libya and 111 from Tunisia ➡️The civilian rescue fleet saved 735 people ➡️144 people lost their lives while searching for safety ➡️2.489 pushbacks and pullbacks Full report on our website.

"Monica Ruiz House, a No More Deaths volunteer who’d recently been involved in deportation defense work in Chicago, said the warrantless raid spoke to a rising culture of lawlessness among the Trump administration’s front-line immigration enforcement agencies. 1/ theintercept.com/2025/12/02/b...

📆 Event alert! Life in the Cracks: Law, Violence, and Resistance in Haiti – this talk examines what it means to live with disappointment in the law itself. Happening at @soasuni.bsky.social on 4 Feb 👇 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

✍️ Are you conducting research, or have first-hand experience of border control? Want to share your perspective with the wider public? Write for us! We welcome contributions from practitioners, academics and people with lived experience. More info & how to submit ➡️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

this will be great. please join us, online or in person

The UK's "one in one out" deal knowingly harms survivors of torture and trafficking. @medicaljustice.org.uk details how all 20 people assessed in detention "had clinical evidence of a history of torture, ill-treatment and/or trafficking, and all 20 had serious mental health conditions" ⤵️

Sanctuary policies, praised for safeguarding immigrants, paradoxically expand ICE's influence. Anthropologist Peter Mancina shares insights from his book "On the Side of ICE" and his experience with New Jersey police force. Hear him on today's episode of NPR's Code Switch:

📆 Join us in London/ online next Tuesday to hear from people at the forefront of the fight against the criminalisation of migration and solidarity! With Seán Binder, @captainsupportuk.bsky.social, @vickytaylor.bsky.social and @hallamtuck.bsky.social. Sign up ➡️ www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

Interested in US border control and the experience of claiming asylum? Juliana in Arizona talks about what it's like : blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

📆 Join us in London/ online next Tuesday to hear from people at the forefront of the fight against the criminalisation of migration and solidarity! With Seán Binder, @captainsupportuk.bsky.social, @vickytaylor.bsky.social and @hallamtuck.bsky.social. Sign up ➡️ www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

The UK's "one in one out" deal knowingly harms survivors of torture and trafficking. @medicaljustice.org.uk details how all 20 people assessed in detention "had clinical evidence of a history of torture, ill-treatment and/or trafficking, and all 20 had serious mental health conditions" ⤵️

📆 Next week! Join us for the launch of @andrianifili.bsky.social's Caged Histories. This won't be a conventional academic panel. Instead, we'll combine visual material and collective reflection to explore the book's themes of history, accountability and witnessing. www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

ICE's Alternatives to Detention programme is said to be "more humane" – but for Juliana and her children, it means living under constant pressure. Read the new blog post by @gesanchez.bsky.social and Juliana R. S. ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Still time to sign up to this book launch later today! 📚👇 www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

Happening on Wednesday! 📆📚 in this timely event, book author @petermancina.bsky.social will unpack how, even though local police are not required to enforce federal civil immigration law, they nonetheless act as voluntary reinforcements for ICE – even in so-called sanctuary jurisdictions 👇

📆 EVENT: after 7+ yrs, Seán Binder & 23 humanitarians have finally been acquitted of 'trumped up' charges inc money laundering and smuggling. Seán will speak alongside others facing criminalisation for migration and solidarity on 27 JAN @citystgeorges.bsky.social 👉 www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

Seán Binder tells of ‘enormous relief’ at being found not guilty of people smuggling in Greece

🇵🇸 The Global Sumud Flotilla sailed to end the seige on Gaza. Civil search and rescue boats and migrants sail to challenge the authority of borders. Their actions have the potential to redefine international law in the Mediterranean. Read the latest blog post ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

🚨100 people held under UK-France scheme report abuse: "Healthcare is inadequate, legal representation is denied, families are isolated, and basic human rights are violated. People are mentally deteriorating due to constant fear, harassment, Our lives are at risk" bylinetimes.com/2026/01/09/1...