🎺🎺The @CalaisAppeal fundraiser just hit £20,000!!!!!🥳🤩🤩 This is amazing! They’re so close to reaching their goal 😭🙏🥰 Thank you so much everyone, let’s make it happen for them! www.justgiving.com/campaign/tog...

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Now might be a good time to donate to www.hrw.org

New from FM: High Court finds safeguarding failures by Home Office at Brook House detention centre | Jamie Bell

More people have died in ICE detention in 2025 than any year since 2004. The government has a legal and moral obligation to provide people in its custody with medical care and livable conditions.

The final episode of #MAGA & #migration #podcast series dropped last week: whodowethinkweare.org/podcasts/who... @michaelacbenson.bsky.social & I reflect back on our conversations with 4 excellent guests: Cecilia Menjívar; Rachel Humphris, Ernesto Castañeda and Heba Gowayed Brief recap🧵

Check out our colleagues @bordercrim.bsky.social who have been as busy as ever with lots more planned for 2026

"Thank you for everything you do, me and my family are so thankful, it really helps". If you can help us provide this support in #Oxford please donate to our winter crowdfunder at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/nobody-sho...

Once more unto the #ECRFriday, dear friends, once more! Laura Haas is a DPhil candidate @oxfordcrim.bsky.social Her article on the deployment experiences of #prison staff with prior military experience is both interesting and impactful. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... #Criminology #Psychology

Before we close our blog for a well-earned break, we have some updates from our busy network! Find out what our members have been up to – from workshops, to toolkits, to films and books 📚 Wishing our colleagues and friends a restorative end to the year ❄️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

As ever everyone’s been super busy. Feeling very grateful for @bordercrim.bsky.social today and all my wonderful colleagues

We went to the High Court to challenge the government’s decision to authorise PAVA spray for use in prisons holding children. Look at the information that has now been made public through this litigation: https://howardleague.org/blog/pava-spray-and-children-in-prison-our-two-days-in-court/

For Oxford people— @oxfordmutualaid.bsky.social need some more donations to meet their Xmas target. Please give what you can: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/nobody-sho...

We’re delighted to share details of our Public Seminar Series for Hilary Term 2026. This interdisciplinary series brings together scholars and practitioners to explore pressing issues in forced migration and refugee studies. We hope you can join us… www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/news/public-...

Perhaps no other nationality came to represent the so-called ‘small boats crisis’ as much as Albanian migrants. Alice Griggs examines whether parliamentary discourse constructed those migrants as criminals to justify new legislation. Read the blog post ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Terrifying that Wes Streeting continues to try and pressurise hospitals into giving patient data to Palantir. Take action here: goodlawproject.org/campaign/sto...

HarperCollins Author Academy opens 8th January, a virtual, six-week, free programme for writers from underrepresented to have their manuscript considered across HarperCollins UK publishing divisions. Please share with anyone that might be interested. Find out more at harpercollinsacademy.co.uk

In this moving piece, Mónica Ruiz House takes us with her on a search and recovery operation in the Sonoran Desert. Here, religion-in-transit creates a shared language of grief for those who have lost their lives on the way. Read the new blog post ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Our article in the amazing @oxfordclarion.bsky.social is out now - give it a read! Thank you very much to the Clarion Team for all their support.

Please read this very moving piece by one of the @oxfordcrim.bsky.social MSc students about the US/MX border. Looking for Jesús: Embodied Religious Practices and Grief at the U.S-Mexico border blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Closing date for British Academy/Cara/Leverhulme Researchers at Risk applications is 14 January 2026. 'Grants are available to support research project activities for eligible researchers in all disciplines except medical and health sciences.' 1/2

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

Fascinating world of ancient glass: The skill of ancient glassmakers never ceases to amaze me. This a magnificent #Roman striped mosaic bowl was made of preformed rods and canes fused on or in a mold. Dating late 1st c. BC/early 1st c AD. Timeless beauty! 📷 Corning Museums of Glass 🏺

💭 On Human Rights Day, we return to a collection which asks, what would a human rights-centred criminology look like? This means a criminology that works *for* human rights, but not necessarily *through* them. Read more ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Yet another research grant rejection today. Ugh. Not sharing to “normalise”, mainly sharing bc found out just before I got on a train and am cross. Oh well. Maybe I’ll take up crochet instead. Or something.

New from Free Movement: Vicarious trauma: what practitioners need to know | Rachel Francis freemovement.org.uk/vicarious-tr...

If you can afford it, please consider donating to @asylumwelcome.bsky.social’s fund to run a visiting programme at the newly re-opened local detention centre near Oxford. Campsfield House. They will offer crucial support to the men inside: www.justgiving.com/campaign/cam...

HOT OFF THE PRESS: Time for Change is here! Sick of the constant demonisation of migrants? Want to see an alternative plan? Our new report by @zoejardiniere.bsky.social outlines 9 steps to a system that delivers dignity for all. Read it here: www.anothereurope.org/time-for-cha...

Drawing on global migration stories, Sophia Balakian discovers in her new book how kinship is stratified by deservingness by border controls. See Researcher Rosa Sarakatsanou’s overview of the book: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

How do you know whether or not your new current academic interest is a rabbit hole or a possible meaningful pathway? asking for meeee

All the 'Danish model' has done is "entrench the forces and narratives driving the far-right. Its most tangible results are the harms inflicted on refugees and asylum seekers." Read Sigrid Corry's account on why the UK should not follow suit: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Wes Streeting insists that NHS health records are not for sale. But handing them to a company like Palantir shatters any chance of public trust, warns our data lead Duncan McCann: https://goodlaw.social/i1o0

Oxford Brookes University has a huge raft of AHRC-funded PhD studentships in the Arts, Humanities and allied subjects! Both fees and a stipend covered. Take a look at the ad below - the closing date is 30th January 2026. Anyone interested at all, get in touch! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM937/p...

We've created a simple tool so you can find out whether your local NHS trust is using Palantir's software and asking them to resist Wes Streeting's push to sign up for it. goodlaw.social/zr8w

Michael Vastine argues for the importance of the reinstatement of the “National Qualified Representative Program,” which offers legal representation to vulnerable migrants with mental health challenges, after it being cut by Trump's DOGE program. Read the new blog post here ⤵️ lnkd.in/epQmDGCd

I know this petition has much more support than it currently has. Please share far and wide. Petition to require generative AI to carry a watermark and to make it illegal to use a person’s likeness in generative AI without permission. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Isabel Jess reviews The Shape of Belonging, where Özlem Ögtem-Young delves deeply into the complex nature of belonging among young unaccompanied migrants in the UK, drawing on interviews and interdisciplinary theories. Read the review here: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Book Review by Holly Bird - Supply Chain Justice: The Logistics of British Border Control by @mfbosworth.bsky.social blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Have any other people received the email about being part of the Anthropic case? When I checked their list of my books affected it did not match what I had sent them which included all the ones with US copyright and stolen on libgen. Anyone know what to do?

Authors Kjersti Lohne, Andreea Ioana Alecu and Katrine Antonsen point out how "Swedish criminal justice policy reflects a shift towards a more punitive stance—a marked departure from the country's historical emphasis on rehabilitation and welfare." Read the new blog post here⤵️ tinyurl.com/ms7kj5vw

There always seems to be money for cruelty, doesn’t there…

"Both attorneys and smugglers do not merely respond to inequality, they help reproduce it." Marielys Padua Soto reflects on the effect of different actors working across the global migration regime, and how they sustain it. Read the new blog post here ⤵️ lnkd.in/eqs6aXid

This sounds fascinating, organised by @thesociologicalreview.org so if you are in Glasgow, please consider attending. It is free.

We have updated detentionreports.com. 229 separate reports for 229 ICE detention facilities.

Was this written by a cat? Surely this plan would result in one immense animal?

If you're in Oxford please join us next Tuesday evening: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

Known for being a welfare state, Denmark has been increasingly using ‘penal power to regulate non-citizens’. This has created significant spillover effects on the country’s development aid for international migration. See the analysis: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Our network member @vcanning.bsky.social on why the UK should not copy the Danish model: "As the co-ordinator of a national support service for refugees in Denmark said about deportation centres: 'They are designed to make life as intolerable as possible, to persuade people to go back.” Read more:

This is an excellent summary of this week's UK asylum announcements from Free Movement. freemovement.org.uk/home-secreta...

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