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annika lindberg on what immigration detention in Denmark is like: www.manchesterhive.com/downloadpdf/...

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...

Looks brilliant!

Join our next All Souls Seminar - Hybrid with Zora Hauser. Sign up at: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

What happens after Europe's NGOs are dismantled?

This is the Cheney obituary to read. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

75 years of respect for human dignity and autonomy, of restraints on how the state can treat people, of internationalism over authoritarianism and fascism. You can see why the right hate it

@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 👇

Delighted to announce we are advertising our first academic post in the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). The position is Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science and is joint with Politics, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Reuben College 1/n

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

📆 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...

Read our latest legal update on new immigration rules re higher English levels, graduate route changes & more. As ever thanking the shares ow.ly/8ocV50Xl7SY @asaproject-org.bsky.social @refugeeaction.bsky.social @praxisprojects.bsky.social #MigrationIsLife #NoOneIsIllegal #TheseWallsMustFall

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...

Why are journalists so keen to sensationalise this particular deportation. Other than his mistaken release from prison all the rest of it sounds like it's business as normal. That's how deportations work folks...

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

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

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...

Congratulations @andrianifili.bsky.social! we hope there will be a book launch soon! @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social

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!

We need two new full-time lecturers in #criminology here at @sheffielduni.bsky.social. One permanent share.google/RuTNSJWfvkuK... and one 12 month maternity cover share.google/xzf5icskztO9...

…the uk needs a lot more high quality principled journalism like this offering from mike jempson in the bristol cable… thebristolcable.org/2025/10/at-h...

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...

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...

In case you missed it: John Tuckett appointed as Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration | Sonia Lenegan

🎓 Congratulations to Dr Luiz Dal Santo! Oxford DPhil Criminology graduate. "Punishment, State, and Society in the Global Periphery: Mass Incarceration, Mass Incorporation, and the Rise of a Protagonist Judiciary in Brazil", 📚 Luiz’s published research here: researchgate.net/profile/Luiz-Dal-Santo

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...

🤖 If you use LinkedIn, please be aware that they automatically use your profile to train their GenAI. To turn off, go to Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Gen AI improvements.

New event 🔈 We're excited to be co-hosting a presentation and panel with Legal Action Group (LAG) on border surveillance and the criminalisation of racialised migrants on 3rd November. Book your free tickets: buff.ly/2HrU63W There are limited places so make sure you book early- see you there! ✊🏽

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...

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

And so it begins... Client telling me that my (and counsel's) advice is wrong and that I need to consider various cited cases that support their view. Which cases don't exist. Client admits used an LLM AI, but comes back to me with further detailed argument, citing other cases which.. don't exist.

Wrote for @bordercrim.bsky.social blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

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...

🚨Come work with me at @propublica.org! We are hiring a reporter to cover higher education — the best beat there is. 🏫 job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

See what our colleagues got up at the annual @bordercrim.bsky.social workshop

🔥 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

this was such a lovely few days, am already looking forward to the next one!

Tomorrow, 6 October at 7 PM, I’m happy to be moderating the 5th edition of the MENA Prison Forum Series. This session will focus on the detention industry in Libya and the crimes against humanity committed against people on the move - and European complicity!

this will be great. the book is excellent. please do join us!

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...

My book, out now! On migration law's treatment of women, gender-based violence, and the legal challenges that migrant women have brought to the rules that determine their status. I have links if you want to review a copy or read a free chapter.... global.oup.com/academic/pro...

I know there is a lot going on in the world but @bordercrim.bsky.social facing a funding crisis to stay meaningfully afloat. Initially in search of £12,000— any ideas of where to look gratefully received. Feels like a bad time to have our platform shrink.

I am looking for UK immigration law practitioners to fill in a short survey about their engagement with legal academic work. There is also an option to take part in an interview at the end. Please do consider taking part and share with your networks: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...

I know there is a lot going on in the world but @bordercrim.bsky.social facing a funding crisis to stay meaningfully afloat. Initially in search of £12,000— any ideas of where to look gratefully received. Feels like a bad time to have our platform shrink.

Had a fun day welcoming all the new @oxfordcrim.bsky.social Msc students and some of our new DPhils too. Always an exciting time of year!