🌊What happened in the central Mediterranean in January? ➡️1,000 people may have died (380 are missing) ➡️1,196 people reached Italy by sea ➡️1,292 people were intercepted and forcibly returned to Libya ➡️113 deaths are confirmed (real number is likely much higher) ➡️Several shipwrecks remain unresolved

We are recruiting Trustees to join our board and support us in our work to promote the welfare and rights of people in immigration detention! Application deadline: 12th March 2026 You may find more information on our website: detentionaction.org.uk/become-a-tru...

The National Preventive Mechanism is looking for a Head of Secretariat. This is an exciting role working with 21 NPM-member organisations to provide policy, research and secretarial support. Find out more and apply at: jobs.justice.gov.uk/careers/JobD... Closing date: 9 March 2026

📆 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...

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this should be super interesting, please do join us, online or in person

The Illegal Migration Act 2023 and the Hardial Singh principles administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2026/02/10/t...

Europe’s appalling mistreatment of immigrants and refugees, and its moral passivity at horrors and deaths in The Med, should be a historic stain on all of our consciences. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

It’s out: Folding a River “A sweeping poetic testament to migration, memory and the fragile work of hope. These poems speak to displacement and belonging, to wounds that demand tending, and to the courage required to remake community.” www.ionabooks.com/product/fold...

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...

1/4 UN Experts and Special Rapporteurs have sent formal allegation letters to both the UK and French governments over serious potential human rights violations under the ‘one-in, one-out’ deal. You may read the full story here: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Anyone recently applied for a uk passport replacement for a lost one 🙄 and knows how long it’s taking to process By any chance?

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...

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

Important! AHRC is looking for a new Executive Chair. A critical role for arts and humanities. £160k - £170k. Please share widely to help get the best possible field! fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

🚫 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...

🗣️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....

If folk are in London this Friday evening, LSE Law School are holding what is certain to be an emotional event paying tribute to their colleague, the much missed Professor Conor Gearty: share.google/RuVaqGkk7Zd4...

am updating a ppt for an undergrad lecture on prisons in E&W and can't find an easy recent map of where the prisons are -- anyone have one by any chance?

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

If you cycle & would like to deliver #FoodParcels, #KitchenCollective Meals or other essential supplies by #bike, email [email protected]

A child’s footprint frozen in time - pressed into a #Roman tile as it dried before firing nearly 1,800 years ago. A tiny, timeless reminder of everyday life in the ancient world. 📷 online.landessammlungen-noe.at/objects/1306... 🏺

The number of people dying in prisons in England and Wales has risen to the highest level on record, official data reveal. Prisons recorded 394 deaths in 2025 – a 15% increase on the previous year. https://howardleague.org/news/revealed-the-rising-death-toll-in-prisons-in-england-and-wales/

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

Is Thames Water your water company? They want permission for *illegal sewage until 2040* Please tell YOUR MP to say NO Deadline is tomorrow to sign up to our letter to Ofwat 👇👇👇 weownit.org.uk/act-now/take...

“You can’t cut one in ten staff without damaging students and teaching.” 85% of University of Essex staff have voted for strike action over plans to cut 400 jobs and close the Southend campus. Show your support and solidarity as they prepare to fight back. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1432...

Reminder for all UK dual nationals: As of the 25 Feb 2026, dual nationals will not be able to travel to the UK on their 'other' passport. If, for example, you or your dual citizen children live abroad & currently don't hold a UK passport, you need to get one (for them) in order to re-enter the UK.

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...

The Deportation Data Project just released their first full report based on immigration enforcement data: "Immigration Enforcement in the First Nine Months of the Second Trump Administration" by Graeme Blair and David Hausman. deportationdata.org/analysis/imm...

While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.

I just took my qualitative methods class to the uni library archives to read 19th Century Oxford university police files. So interesting. They had powers in a 4 mile radius of the university and mainly were used to police prostitution.

Hello, I have a new book out in the spring with Picador and I would love it if you could help me spread the word. IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it. Pre-orders: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...

✍️ 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...

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Join The Carceral Heritage Lab, a virtual Knowledge Exchange Café space for academics and practitioners to exchange ideas, best practices, and challenges in carceral heritage and tourism. Tuesday 17 February 2026 14:00 - 15:00 Location: Online via Teams www.rgu.ac.uk/events/event...

My book on New Labour and the Blair years is out in just over two weeks... And it's now **ON SALE** for just £12! Come on, you can't say fairer than that when it comes to the bargains. Roll up and/ or repost! It's just twelve quid! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/

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" ⤵️

ICE expansion continues. A former Big Lots warehouse in Tremont Township, PA is being purchased by the federal government for an ICE detention facility. Fewer than 300 residents live there and the town will lose $400K annually in tax revenue. www.pennlive.com/news/2026/01...

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

📆 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...

5️⃣ days left to submit your paper to a panel on entwinement of war and migration control I am co-organizing at EASA conference in Poznan. Please do through the conference portal (P107). The call closes on Monday. easaonline.org/easa-confere...

why are there suddenly more of those creepy bot accounts that only follow 100s of women’s accounts on here? I keep having to block

This is horrific. Docking all pay for refusing to reschedule teaching due to strike action (for which pay has already been docked).

Come and do a fully-funded 4-year PhD with me in Glasgow (and @thesccjr.bsky.social ) and Thomas Ugelvik as part of the Rehabilitation and Reintegration in Europe project. 😊. www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/soc....

Apparently I made £2.48 from Public Lending Right.. who says academic publishing doesn't pay eh?