"Just wanted to send you my regards for the amazing thing your team does. I have no idea what would I have done without O.M.A.” . Ensure we can keep helping people from hunger by donating to our crowdfunder at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/oxford-mut...

Read my full analysis and support ongoing research below. austinkocher.substack.com/p/a-first-lo...

Really important research about #AccessToJustice with implications wider than just for immigration hearings. The need for representation and the still unknown impact of virtual hearings on justice outcomes are universal issues.

As public scrutiny over the UK’s courts declines, the third report of the Bail Observation Project marks some key changes to immigration bail hearings. With data from @biddetention.bsky.social ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Calling all gender and migration scholars, researchers and storytellers📣 This #WomensHistoryMonth, we're inviting proposals for Women on the Move, a series that foregrounds women’s experiences of mobility across time and space. Find out more on the blog: bit.ly/4dThMS6

The DPRU's Carolyn Hoyle published an op-ed for Jewish News this week, addressing new legislation passed in Israel seeking to revive the use of the death penalty:

North/South migration diplomacy laid bare as the UK & Rwanda dispute in The Hague. My latest @bordercrim.bsky.social blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi... @mollyquell.bsky.social @lizziedearden.bsky.social @fionaadamson.bsky.social @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social @hhesterm.bsky.social

Recent changes to refugee status in the UK avoided parliamentary scrutiny, facing refugees with 20 years of recurring costs and bureaucracy to maintain their rights. Read the latest blog post by Kabir Joshi of @wilsonsolicitors.bsky.social ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Yesterday, the Israeli Knesset passed new legislation which makes the death penalty the automatic sentence for Palestinians convicted of deadly terror attacks — a measure that The Death Penalty Project unequivocally denounces.

Free and everyone is very welcome! 👇👇👇

friends! countrymen! people who may wish to buy some affordable art in London in an actually fun and enjoyable environment! the next Outsiders Arts Club will be on April 28, and we're going to put the tickets on sale at 1pm tomorrow on our website: outsidersartsclub.com

EITHER WAY @marychilds.bsky.social piece is a perfect reminder that today — March 30 — is the last day to submit a claim.

Huge news. The good people @deportationdata.org obtained updated ICE case records through a FOIA lawsuit. The dataset goes from October 2022 through *early March 2026.* deportationdata.org/data/ice.html

Amid the £100m Rwanda-UK dispute at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, migration management partnerships are emerging as a key site of North/ South diplomacy. Read the new post by @nicolapalmer.bsky.social ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

It’s infuriating, but also just so depressing. *No one* in charge of any part of our educational infrastructure seems to understand why it’s important for people to…read things that are difficult.

A new report by Travis Van Isacker @borderforensics.bsky.social found that deaths in the Channel rose after a major UK-France deal to 'stop the boats' ⤵️ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

🎓 Calling all masters' graduates from 2025! There's less than a month left to apply for the Border Criminologies masters' dissertation prize. Submit your thesis and a 300 word abstract by 20 April and be in with a chance to win up to £200 worth of Routledge books 📚👇 www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...

🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 #TheoreticalCrim is currently accepting proposals for our 2028 Special Issue. If you are interested in guest editing for Theoretical Criminology, submit your proposal before APRIL 15. Submission guidelines here: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cm...

An extremely moving piece today @bordercrim.bsky.social on the ethical challenges of writing with and about refugees and sea crossings blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

This week over 100,000 @alcs.co.uk members will receive their share of £34 million All types of writer can join ALCS + if you’re a WGGB member you are eligible for free Life Membership of ALCS Find out more about the twice-yearly payments ALCS makes to writers + more 🔽 youtu.be/WIZXeaZsweU

📆 Brussels friends! Join us on Wednesday to hear @mfbosworth.bsky.social speak about the nature and scale of violence in the ‘immigration detainee escorting system’, drawing on research for her book Supply Chain Justice 📦⤵️ repi.phisoc.ulb.be/en/violence-...

The registration for #BSCC2026 is open! The deadline for the early bird registration is Sunday 29 March 2026. Register now: web.cvent.com/event/5de93a... @britishcriminology.bsky.social

I love the ALCS. If you’re a UK-based academic, you really should sign up & try get ££ for your writing!

We are pleased to share our Annual Report 2024-25, with updates on our research projects, recent publications, and impact & engagement activities - with thanks to the many partner organisations worldwide that we collaborated with during this period: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...

Dear Home Secretary, People get on boats to cross the Channel because they love their families, because the separations - like those we all went through hell with under Lockdown - are killing them. Because living without the one’s you love is unendurable. That’s it. 1/

During this #WHM, amid big-tech incorporation & funding cuts to feminist scholarship, we want to amplify our Ask A Feminist podcast, “Public Feminism, a Conversation with Marcie Bianco and Andi Zeisler,” which dissects what it means to be a public feminist now. signsjournal.org/public-femin...

this is the kind of news I want to see coming from Australia: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Must read for anyone interested in the activity of ICE Air as a cog in the wheel of the mass deportation machine.

We are hosting @mfbosworth.bsky.social next week at the ULB @sciencepoulb.bsky.social REPI! If you are in Brussels, do come join us on Wednesday, March 25th, 2026, from12:00 to 2:00 pm, at the IEE (Spaak Room) Reigster here: repi.phisoc.ulb.be/fr/violence-... @bordercrim.bsky.social

Next Tuesday, I will be giving a guest lecture for the Migration and Refugees Research Network at Oxford Brookes University. The lecture looks at the shifting dynamics across a range of jurisdictions to ask the question of whether we are witnessing the death of International Refugee Law.

The UK/Rwanda Migration Agreement is back in the courts. Rwanda is in dispute with the UK for its failure to make two payments of £50 million & its failure to make arrangements to resettle Rwanda’s most vulnerable refugees in the UK. Live-streamed today at 9:30 (GMT) vimeo.com/event/5760979

After the great creative responses event yesterday another fabulous @bordercrim.bsky.social event today with with the glorious @vcanning.bsky.social who shared her new Supporting Survival toolkit. Despite the subject matter look how happy we look to be together! @andrianifili.bsky.social

Hello from today’s event on ✨ creative ✨ responses to immigration detention 👋 Anna De Mutiis and Pilo share their ‘data sonification’ track which takes us through one day in detention - an immersive listening experience on the horrors and profit-making business of detention.

📢 We’re hiring 📢 Join our team as a Student Movement Leas and act as the vital link between GLP and local campus groups 📆 Deadline: 22 March https://goodlawproject.org/vacancy/student-movement-lead/]

Jürgen Habermas, German philosopher and sociologist, dies aged 96

Are deportations the only form of sending people back to the places they came from? Do all return forms come with re-entry bars? I have prepared a catalogue of organised returns from the United Kingdom. You will find it in my new CMR Working Paper that was just published. lnkd.in/dYGzHqHt

Two weeks to go! 🚶‍♀️ By walking together, we’re showing that our communities want to build a more humane, fair, and workable asylum system. Want to walk with us? Let us know at the link below

Thinking about postgraduate studies? Interested in criminal, restorative, and transformative justice? Watch this video to hear about our MSc Crime and Justice in Practice directly from members of our teaching team, and take a peek around our campus. For more info: www.napier.ac.uk/courses/msc-...

A busy street at the edge of the buffer zone in Cyprus shows how protracted borders can recede into mundanity, become invisibilised by, and invisibilise, border communities. Read the blog post by Ibrahim Ince ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Listen to this podcast episode featuring some of our network members! @andrianifili.bsky.social @gee-manoharan.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social @aviddetention.bsky.social

Shedding light on hidden detention sites with #DetentionLandscapes. 4️⃣ Amygdaleza: ➡️opened in 2012, Greece’s 1st purpose-built detention camp ➡️2nd largest detention site in Greece- connected to a police training academy 15km from Athens ➡️detains men and women- asylum seekers and undocumented people

Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income? Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero. Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit? Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.

If you want to respond to the HO consultation on changes to the use of force policy in family returns, eg to point out that using force against children for administrative convenience is a very bad idea, here is the link to the survey: www.homeofficesurveys.homeoffice.gov.uk/s/Consultati...

I have done a quick post on today's tribunal stats. Specifically those that relate to the quality (or lack thereof) of Home Office decision making. I also look at the ongoing saga of the missing nationality data in asylum appeals, and why that is important: open.substack.com/pub/thoughts...

WATCH | DOGE staffer who flagged grants to reject for ‘DEI’ struggles to define the term More here: www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/doge...

📆 Join us next week! *Supporting Survival and Resistance in an Era of Border Harms* 17 March, 1-4pm, Oxford We'll bring together activists, practitioners, survivors & academics to collaboratively engage in knowledge sharing and toolkit building. Contact [email protected] to attend.

Immigration detention in Greece is a shady business. In 2024/25, #DetentionLandscapes collaborated with a 3D modelling specialist Boudewyn vD and a team of volunteers to visually recreate 5 immigration detention sites. detentionlandscapes.uwazi.io/en/page/8qm9...

The Ireland-Northern Ireland border is often described as ‘soft’, but it does not operate equally. For many, it is a contemporary site of racialised border violence. Read the new post by @lynseyblack.bsky.social and @niamhkeady-tabbal.bsky.social 👇 blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

#InternationalWomensDay 2026 arrives at a critical juncture for the international protection of refugees. As @catbriddick.bsky.social  explains, it offers an opportunity to celebrate hard-won gains, but those gains remain fragile and contested. https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/blog/doubt-to-denial-IWD2026