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 ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

@bordercrim.bsky.social still looking for funding, please do send me any leads/ideas if you have any... I know it looks like the uni would cover us. but sadly it isn't quite that simple...

✨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 👇

A devastating new blog about the interconnections between climate breakdown and border control. Sometimes I do wish we all worked on cheerier topics...

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 ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

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 📚⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

New blog on overlapping border regimes, published today in Border Criminologies

We have long-warned of the harms of large-scale accommodation sites. The Government knows that they are cruel, unsafe and unsuitable. This plan is chasing headlines. It puts closing hotels before people. This move will undoubtedly cause harm and distress to people seeking safety here. 2/2

📆 Event on 12 Nov! Dr Matilde Rosina will examine migration deterrence policies, with a focus on the introduction of the “crime of migration”. Do deterrence policies work? And what are their unintended consequences? For more info and to sign up ⤵️ www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

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 ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

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 ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

So excited to have received my copy of @andrianifili.bsky.social’s fabulous new book: think I have got mine before she has received hers. It’s a very sobering read of course. But brilliant!

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...

📆 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'. Sign up 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

*Highly recommended* - Deirdre Conlon and Nancy Hiemstra have created a vital stack of evidence of the financial and business behind rapidly expanding #detention facilities. Coming to a 'managed migration' system near you: food offered at minimum calorific intake to increase outsourcer profit.

Join us online on 30th October: I'm very much looking forward to presenting the report on technology and alternatives to detention I recently worked on, hosted by the Technology & Digital Futures thematic group of @bordercrim.bsky.social Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A full house tonight for Dr Samuel Singler’s book launch @oxfordcrim.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social. Very pleased to have seen this from doctoral thesis to publication.The book, Outsourcing Crimmigration Control, is open access at: repository.essex.ac.uk/41343/1/isbn...

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. Read the new blog post ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Join us next Tuesday to hear the authors discuss their brand new book! 📆👇

Happening tomorrow! ⤵️

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 ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

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 ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

📣 Our friends at law charity Appeal are hiring for several roles across their legal and research team. Find out more! 👇 appeal.org.uk/careers/?_gl...

📆 Join us on the 16th for the launch of Samuel Singler's new book, Outsourcing Crimmigration Control: Digital Borders, the IOM, and Biometric Statehood. Sign up to join online or in person 👇 www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

🙋 Our colleague @dianavolpe.bsky.social providing much needed insight on how Italy outsources its 'dirty work' to Libya as part of a migration agreement, and why recent attacks on rescue ships are unlikely to turn the tide ⤵️ www.rfi.fr/en/internati...

🔥 These things got us talking at our annual workshop: creatively disrupting hostile border systems; navigating abolition; borderless empires vs bordered reparations. Watch to find out more! 👇 @juliawinkler.bsky.social @mfbosworth.bsky.social @smilivojevic.bsky.social @cambridgelaw.bsky.social

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 ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

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 ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Food, medical care, in-facility stores. There's 💰 to be gained from the business of immigration detention. Find out more in the launch of Conlon and Hiemstra's new book, plus discussion with Prof Ruben Andersson, on 21 October, 5-6pm BST. Register here ⬇️ www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

When border control policies prioritise deterrence over protection, a paradox emerges. Italy is a case in point. Read the new blog post by Luciano Magaldi Sardella and Matteo Mantuano ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

What happens when documentation, not rights, determines citizenship? How India’s largest biometric identification system rewrites citizenship. New blog from Varalika Singh ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Screening tomorrow! 📽️ This Jungo Life is showing at Genesis Cinema, Whitechapel, London, with a Q&A. The event raises funds for @captainsupportuk.bsky.social, a grassroots network supporting people criminalised for moving or supporting others to move. Tickets 🎟️ www.genesiscinema.co.uk/event/101321

Happening today! There's still space to come along to the book launch of Hannah Pool's The Game @ 12pm today. Access the meeting here 📚⬇️ teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

On 8 September, the Supreme Court signalled its support for ICE’s continued use of racial profiling in immigration policing. In the decision, “common sense” does the heavy lifting, at the expense of facts, evidence, and individual rights. By Jennifer M. Chacón ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Am looking forward to today’s @bordercrim.bsky.social lunch time online book launch of Hannah Pool‘s new book The Game. Please join us. www.eventbrite.co.uk/x/book-launc...

"Supply Chain Justice offers a powerful, unsettling lens into how state and private contractors shape deportation regimes with an eye for efficiency over humanity" Review of @mfbosworth.bsky.social's @princetonupress.bsky.social book in academic.oup.com/jrs/article-... by @janikakuge.bsky.social

On a study trip to the US-Mexico border, this class did not break any rules or laws. Nevertheless, border authorities made them leave the area, blocking their access to information on this dehumanising border wall. Read the new blog post ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Back from a wonderful @bordercrim.bsky.social annual workshop, feeling lucky to have such brilliant colleagues old and new. We always profile work of early career peeps and they are fab. So much creativity & passion. It’s hard to be uplifted at the moment. But this did the trick.

The last couple of days at #BorderCrim2025 have been wonderful. Saw old faces, met new people, heard about some exciting work. The theme of resistance recharged my activist battery a bit which has been in overuse for the last couple of years

Very happy that at this year’s conference of @bordercrim.bsky.social at @cambridgelaw.bsky.social there was a full panel on “Reframing Smuggling and Clandestine Migration as Acts of Knowledge and De-Bordering” that I was invited to participate in, alongside many other great and interesting research!

Just starting on our last panel of the conference on Detention and Deportation, Wing Yin Anna Tsui discusses the case of detainee resistance in Hong Kong: "Symbolic victories over everyday requests mattered a lot, perhaps even more than principled demand for undeportability" #BorderCrim2025

Our sixth panel of the #BorderCrim2025 workshop is on Technology and Digital Futures. Fatmanur Delioglu discusses border tech and migrant tactics on the Balkan route: “Migrants use these tools to figure out where it is safe to be visible and where to stay invisible” @cambridgelaw.bsky.social

Kicking off our first panel for the day, on Gender, Violence and Exploitation is Dr Shih Joo Tan on Australia’s Family Violence Provision for migrant women: “Despite being called a legal safety net, the FVP… operates as a technology of cruelty.” #BorderCrim2025 @cambridgelaw.bsky.social

It’s day two of #BorderCrim2025 annual workshop! We’re at Clare College @cambridgelaw.bsky.social starting the day with a panel on Gender, Violence and Exploitation. Find out more in the programme: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

Kicking off our last panel for the day, Ibrahim Ince discusses ‘border domestication’ in Cyprus. “While people in other countries might talk about the weather, people in Cyprus discuss how long it takes to get across the checkpoint.” #BorderCrim2025 @cambridgelaw.bsky.social

Our afternoon panel on Law and the Courts starts with Dr Nicola Palmer. "we're seeing an extension, both of the sentencing and also of the notion of dangerousness" on immigration cases in the US #BorderCrim2025 @cambridgelaw.bsky.social

Everybody knows the Libyan Coast Guard is involved in the mass abuse/torture/murder of people in Libya. Over the years this hasn't been enough for the EU to break off its partnership. The LCG is now targeting NGOs - apparently that used to be a Commission red line, but we'll see if it still is.

“It’s a condescending and patriarchal narrative that the state can best protect those on the move through containment” Andrew Fallone in our 2nd panel on Reframing smuggling and clandestine migration as knowledge and acts of debordering. @cambridgelaw.bsky.social #BorderCrim2025 #HopeNotBorders

“Ideas of familial harm, separation and violence can be transported to other groups, including families of the border workers themselves” @arkluge.bsky.social speaking at our first panel, Border policing: resisting emotions? #BorderCrim2025 #HopeNotBorders www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

Good morning from Clare College, Cambridge! We kick off the first day of our annual #BorderCrim2025 workshop this morning with a fantastic panel from our Border Policing and Emotions thematic group. Find the whole program here: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...