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...

📣 The 2025/6 University League is here! We ranked 147 UK universities against ethics and sustainability criteria. 📈 🔍 Find out how your university scored! 👇 peopleandplanet.org/university-l...

It would be funny, if it was a joke. But it isn’t a joke. The EU is really meeting this week to consider restricting plant-based food labelling. We urge the EU Agri-Fish Council to think of the consumer — they’re not confused by the labelling and they want easy ways to tackle climate change.

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...

I'll admit, the one thing I miss England for is not ever needing the Happy Cow app

I think this is a great example of what migrant rights organisations need to do: speak for everyone. Campaign for housing and workers rights for all in ways that solve the asylum-specific problems.

Hardline migration policies are fuelling people smuggling, report finds

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...

On 13 November, Italy and Albania signed 16 new agreements and reaffirmed their migration deal.

Sicuri sicuri che dal giugno 2026 i centri in Albania "funzioneranno", come ha detto Meloni? Che si sono persi due anni per colpa dei giudici? E che, quando l'Ue approverà la lista di Paesi sicuri, essa sarà inattaccabile dai giudici, come Meloni pare suggerire? pagellapolitica.it/articoli/mel...

On our way to Oxford today for this screening of Removed (2025) - a panel digging into the realities of detention, resistance & community care. Hosted by @bordercrim.bsky.social & Oxford @starnational.bsky.social group. If you’re nearby, please come through. www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

Do come along if you're in Oxford!

✨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 👇

It was never about 'following the rules', coming 'illegally', or 'skipping the line'. It was always about moving the goalpost further and further away, starting from the most vulnerable

💥Want to turn research into resistance?💥 Join Corporate Watch’s 2-day event Fri 28th and Sat 29th Nov - London 🔍Trace money & influence 🔥Expose corporate profiteers ✊Build powerful campaigns Free for grassroots activists • Spaces limited! Apply by 31 Oct → corporatewatch.org/research-for...

The 10th issue of the #ExternalisationBulletin is out now 🚨 It covers: • Progress on plans for major migration routes • Frontex projects proposed in Egypt & Morocco • Potential deportations from EU to Côte d’Ivoire • & more. Full issue, compiled by @freylindsay.bsky.social, here: buff.ly/bWL4McV

Spying on students for arms companies. It's despicable. UK universities need to ask themselves who they really serve and protect - war profiteers and genocide enablers, or their students fighting for peace?

🙋 Our colleague @dianavolpe.bsky.social providing much needed insight on how Italy outsources its 'dirty work' to Libya as part of a migration agreement, and why recent attacks on rescue ships are unlikely to turn the tide ⤵️ www.rfi.fr/en/internati...

I shared some of my thoughts on the relationship between the EU, search and rescue NGOs, and the so-called Libyan coast guard in a conversation with Frey here:

Good morning from Clare College, Cambridge! We kick off the first day of our annual #BorderCrim2025 workshop this morning with a fantastic panel from our Border Policing and Emotions thematic group. Find the whole program here: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

Interested in any of these titles? Come and review one for us! Book reviewers receive a free e-copy or print copy in exchange for 750-1,000 words of their insight into the text. Email our book reviews editor nayera.bordercrim[at]gmail.com for more info 📖

Government plans to halve the ‘move on period’ for Refugees, reducing it to 28 days. 28 days to find a job, get a deposit, and find somewhere to live. Thousands of street homeless refugees by the time winter hits. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

In just over 11 minutes, Removed reveals the harsh reality of immigration detention for racialised women. This powerful film was created by @aviddetention.bsky.social, Unchained Collective, Francesca Esposito, survivors and grassroots groups. Watch here ⤵️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=287m...

It says a lot about where we're going that the BBC is now running stories in which they ask lifeboat crews whether they will apologise for using their boats to save lives

For ‪@eualive.bsky.social: EU Migration chief Brunner has begun talking about the 'weaponisation' of migration from Libya to the EU, orchestrated by Russia and Belarus - suggesting he may be considering invoking 'hybrid warfare' to justify harsher (or more openly harsh) methods in the Mediterranean.

Mitie, a major player in UK immigration detention, has just been awarded $192m to run the infamous Campsfield immigration prison when it reopens later this year. This makes a certain sense - it was Mitie's running of Campsfield which saw it shut in the first place. www.forbes.com/sites/freyli...

URGENT! UN experts demanded safe passage for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition's ship Madleen, you can join them by putting Israel on notice. It only takes a minute. actionnetwork.org/letters/form...

From yesterday: New report finds that children continue to be prosecuted for arriving across the Channel | Sonia Lenegan

What an incredible couple of days. Thankful and honoured to be able to join these conversations.

The ideological basis of the biology is destiny movement is identical to the ideological basis of the men's rights movement. There are no essential differences in the ontology of sex advanced by JK Rowling when compared to that of Andrew Tate.

📢 Call for Papers: A special issue workshop on credibility assessment in refugee status determination will be held at the University of Copenhagen, Oct 23–24, 2025. Interdisciplinary contributions welcome! 🗓 Submission deadline: 1 July 2025 🔗

🚨Funded PhD alert! @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social is offering a 3-year PGR studentship (stipend + fee waiver). Apply by 31 May 2025. Critical human rights & crim law; socio-legal theory & methods? Get in touch: I’d love to support strong applications! Info: www.york.ac.uk/law/study/fu...

🌍 What is owed, by whom, to Global South citizens on the move? Join us for Race, Refuge & Repair, a hybrid colloquium exploring race, law, decolonisation & refugee protection from a Global South perspective. Keynote: Prof Tendayi Achiume & Tshepo Madlingozi Details: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

The programme for ‘Race, Refuge & Repair’ is out! Speakers from 14 countries discussing Palestine, Rwanda, South Africa, Tunisia, Egypt, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Libya & Italy. @madlingozi.bsky.social @catbriddick.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

[Call for Book Reviewers 📚] Are you interested in reviewing books on border control and migration? We're looking for contributors to review the titles below. Get in touch at [email protected] Spread the word!

📣 We've joined over 50 other organisations in signing an open letter to the Home Secretary, coordinated by Conversation Over Borders, calling for safe housing for people seeking asylum. Add your name as an individual or organisation: buff.ly/11qXQOT

People have literally been enslaved there. What the absolute fuck.

BREAKING NEWS ⚠️⚠️ 🧵 We have received a distress alert from a group of over 100 women, children and 250 men, currently being held for ransom in Zawiya, Libya. The warehouse where they are detained is known as “Osama Prison.” Or #Almasri 130 of them were captured at sea on May 2, 2025. 1/3

The UK government: people seeking asylum should arrive here through LEGAL ROUTES Also the government when people seeking asylum arrive here through legal routes:

Really excited to join such a fantastic line of speakers for this event at the end of May.

Come work with me!

Six years, with colleagues at @privacyint.bsky.social, we fought against this - sounds like it might need to be done again. Interesting timing as new EDPS is about to be appointed privacyinternational.org/advocacy/328...

Frontiers of border militarization are increasingly further away from imperial center - from El Salvador to Rwanda to Egypt to Poland - tho still dictated by imperial interests. Border outsourcing agreements are key to understanding geopolitical power & trade agreements & fascistic alliances today.

At least 2 people—29 and 44 yo—have died while detained at Krome ICE prison near Miami. The facility is so overcrowded people are sleeping in the bathrooms: “Their faces are literally under the toilet.” english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-...

Out today in @politico.eu: A harrowing account of what offshore detention means in practice, from someone who lived it. Benham Satah spent seven years detained by the Australian government in Manus, where he witnessed violence, death, trauma, neglect and abuse. www.politico.eu/article/offs...

New SIEPS @sieps.bsky.social publication today: Gabriella Sanchez @gesanchez.bsky.social, leading expert on migrant smuggling, analyses the EU’s ’Facilitation proposal’. sieps.se/en/publicati...

This is a powerful piece by Judith Butler. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Today at the EU commission: A proposal for so-called "Return Hubs" – essentially deportation prisons – is on the table. These plans open the door to mass human rights violations. We demand an end to the war on migration. Protect human rights. Respect international law. [1/4]

A Place of Safety is the new theatre show by Kepler-452 about the dilemmas of search and rescue in the Mediterranean. It follows boys and girls aiding those at risk of dying in the Mediterranean, despite being accused of being "sea taxis" or "vice-smugglers." kepler452.it/A-place-of-s...

My experience of attempting to write more ethnographically can be summed in a series of screenshots sent to academic friends asking if I am being too self-referential