The Bibby Stockholm barge has an unlikely legacy – one that has often gone unseen. This is a legacy of solidarity and community, formed in Dorset by the people living on the barge and in the surrounding community. Read the latest blog post by Georgie Holmes ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

I will be giving the Ebor Lecture on Theology in Public Life in York Minster tonight at 7pm All welcome and you can also join online - registering here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ebor-lectu...

More tickets released for this Press on Sunday and Wednesday and following. Thanks for all the gentle good wishes🥰 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ebor-lectu...

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...

Amongst many brilliant panels at our #BorderedCare workshop: a sobering presentation on the lived impacts of the Afghan data breach, which had devastating consequences inc killings. @reflegalsupport.bsky.social @vcanning.bsky.social @sara-de-jong.bsky.social refugeelegalsupport.org/publications...

Postdoc job opportunity! We're looking for a Danish speaker to work with us on the Business of Bordering project. All the info is here: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...

David Venturella, who spent more than a decade as an executive at the private-prison behemoth GEO Group, will be the next acting director of ICE. This has been a banner year for GEO Group, the largest private prison contractor incarcerating immigrants in the US: ICE is its single largest client.

For further context: almost everyone in the Faculty of Arts is at risk of redundancy. Music, Modern Languages & American & Canadian Studies courses to close completely. History will not close but staff numbers will be significantly reduced. This is what 'right-sizing' looks like, apparently.

Oxford University says its staff are “entitled to participate in civic and political life in a personal capacity” after the head of its Staff Immigration Team, James Baker, stood as Reform UK’s candidate in Littlemore. Around 40% of Oxford’s research and teaching staff originate from outside the UK.

New: Immigration legislation re-announced in King’s Speech — by Colin Yeo

50% off now through June 9th! Head to our website to shop the sale and use code SPRING50 at checkout for half-off great #dinosaur books! 🦕 press.princeton.edu/books?books_... Some exclusions apply. #Paleontology #Dinosaurs

Well, it made me feel better to draw a little “no generative AI” logo, inspired by the manifesto of French academics’ arguments & term. Feel free to use it. atecopol.hypotheses.org/13082

Thanks to Border Criminologies for giving us space yesterday. Police cells are becoming an extension of immigration detention — a diffusion of detention into new spaces, yet without the safeguards, support mechanisms, or scrutiny people should have.

Government are consulting on the physical restraint of children, including handcuffing children who don’t want to let go of their parent’s hands. Follow the link below to read more on this asylummatters.org/2026/05/08/u...

We sued the Trump administration. We won.

📣 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/

What true joy. Let’s hope the funds start flowing back to us soon. Alas no reporting on any remedy for the public servants who were unfairly and recklessly dismissed. #NEH DOGE’s Termination of Humanities Grants Is Ruled Unconstitutional www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/a...

The final scores on Oxford City Council, combining tonight’s 24 elections with the 24 from 2024, are: 🌹 Labour 20 💚 Green 13 🔶 LibDem 9 🟪 IOA 4 ◻️ Ind 2 This gives the Greens and LibDems a chance to run the council in coalition if they choose. Here’s tonight on a map. Thanks for following along!

What would it mean to take #Racism and processes of #Racialisation seriously in #prison work and research?? Join Angela Charles, Khatuna Tsintsadze, and I at this @crimeandjustice.bsky.social event on Weds June 3rd: www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/all-talk-no-... #Criminology #CriminalJustice

Postdoc alert! Fellow in Public Policy at the LSE School of Public Policy. Up to 3 years, a great job in a tight market. Needs to be able to support teaching on our MPP program, but political scientists could definitely do this (make your case!) www.jobs.lse.ac.uk

A recent lethal collision off the island of Chios raises serious concerns about practices at EU borders, as well as Greece’s ability to provide independent monitoring. Read the latest post by @gemmabird.bsky.social and Emma Musty of @ihaverights.bsky.social 👇 blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

For any local peeps I just saw that SOAP in south oxford is facing closure. Such a great outdoor resource for kids and their parents. Please support their fundraiser if you can. Info here: soapoxford.org.uk/support-soap/

Just noticed my book on the UK’s outsourced immigration detainee escorting system & how it’s run like a logistics system is 50% off @princetonupress.bsky.social, only £15: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Just noticed my book on the UK’s outsourced immigration detainee escorting system & how it’s run like a logistics system is 50% off @princetonupress.bsky.social, only £15: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Kind reminder to register to attend this year's BSC Conference #BSCC2026 Register here: shorturl.at/nxmB9 Deadline: Friday 8 May 2026! @britishcriminology.bsky.social

At the Israel-Lebanon border, regimes govern through bombardment, restricted zones, and the constant anticipation of return or renewed flight – to create a subject who is permanently provisional. Read the latest post by Hucen Sleiman 👇 blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

New event! 📆5th May 🕛12:15pm UK Time @bordercrim.bsky.social host Surabhi Chopra for talk "Immigration detention in Hong Kong: Advocacy in the dark" about her research on administrative detention in Hong Kong & how activist groups push for reform. In Oxford UK www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

The one-in-one out scheme trades human beings for political theatre, and the consequences are catastrophic. These five airlines are facilitating racist, cruel deportations. Email their CEOs and tell them to stop! actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

📆 New event! @jrsuk.bsky.social are launching their new report on 14 May @6pm BST: Disabled by Design: The Human Impact of the Hostile Environment on People Seeking Asylum. Register to join 👇 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

A question for an immigration lawyer please: am being told by uni we have to not only to issue formal letters of invitation to all non uk speakers for border force for academic conference but check and make a record (ie photograph it) they got appropriate visa.

Detention Reports Website Updated with New Design and Features ICE's detention system has grown rapidly during the Trump admin. Detention Reports, a trusted source of data, just got an overhaul. @adamjst.bsky.social @relevantresearch.bsky.social austinkocher.substack.com/p/detention-...

A question for an immigration lawyer please: am being told by uni we have to not only to issue formal letters of invitation to all non uk speakers for border force for academic conference but check and make a record (ie photograph it) they got appropriate visa.

A little-viewed Flickr album showcases Indigenous partnership in service of US border security, but a counter-narrative of colonisation and resistance lies beneath. Read the latest blog post, on the rise and fall of ICE's Shadow Wolves unit ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

📆 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...

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...

For Indigenous people in Bangladesh, whose own languages have no legal status, comprehension in the legal system is almost impossible. Constitutional guarantees of equality therefore turn into procedural exclusion. Read the new blog post by Galib Mahmud Pasha 👇️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

📚 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 👇

We're constantly hearing about converted hotels - but rarely from the people actually forced to live in them. This vital work by people housed in hotels sets out a vision of what needs to change, from the people who know the issue best: gmiau.org/greater-manc...

Are you a researcher looking for funding to cover expenses arising from a defined research project? Apply the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants (supported by DSIT, @leverhulme.ac.uk and @wellcometrust.bsky.social). Learn more: https://bit.ly/4t0MDRl

So I am not an AI adopter, but I thought I'd try to see if it could help me find the business rates paid by IRCs...

📣 Call for Papers: Coloniality of the modern state Submit by 15 May to present at the Brussels workshop in November. This CfP asks: Can the modern state function as an instrument of decolonization? Or can the master’s tools ever dismantle the master’s house? 👇 repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/cfp-colon...

As ICE vastly expands its detention portfolio, analytical responses must consider the history of failed crimmigration, so as to reorient towards a different future. Read the latest blog post by @hallamtuck.bsky.social 👇 blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Just a few hours left to apply to our masters' dissertation prize for 2026! The winner and runner up will receive £200 and £100 in books from @routledgebooks.bsky.social and have their work featured on the Border Criminologies blog. Deadline midnight tonight 📚👇 www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...

Does the Italy/Albania asylum deal breach EU law? Report from and analysis of the latest CJEU hearings on the issue, by Eleonora Celoria, @andreinadeleo.bsky.social and Marcella Ferri eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/04/test...

"Tens of thousands of people are being held [in immigration detention], and nobody knows what detention will do to them later in life. Abolishing these places would save a lot of people." Immigrant labor activist Pedro Figueroa in conversation with Sameer Ashar

I'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories. Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...

Our hall, which we have rented as our base of operations for the past five years, requires emergency repairs at short notice. Help us to fund these by donating at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/oxford-mut...