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

The right won't be convinced & those with a conscience won't vote for you @teamlabouruk.bsky.social Zoe isn't wrong this is straight out of Trumps playbook. Even I didn't think Labour would stoop to this bottom of the barrel shit.

Look at Labour making precisely noone's life better while pandering to racists.

Only 10 days left to join Border Criminologies this summer! We're working with UNIQ+ to offer a 7-week postgrad research programme (7 July–21 Aug) at Oxford—with free accommodation! Deadline: 19 Feb. Gain research skills, boost your CV & work on human rights projects:

I found out yesterday that IOM is operating Migrant Operations Center at Guantánamo refugeerights.org/wp-content/u...

Launched a newsletter YESTERDAY and I'm not only posting essays there, but also trying to do some of the news aggregation there I used to do on Facebook. Like this. meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/week-three-t...

FOR THE THIRD TIME Meloni has shipped a handful of asylum seekers back & forth across the Adriatic. This is costing Italian taxpayers hundreds of millions. It is a farcical spectacle of cruelty that only serves to highlight the lack of control you get from the far right

New guidance on the treatment of trans+ people in #detention is even worse than current guidance, + is rife with #misgendering, erasure + #transphobia. We stand against detention in all its forms, + we oppose this reinforcement of the gender binary in state incarceration. https://buff.ly/3WGvU7Y

New from Free Movement: What is in the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill? | Colin Yeo

In 2022, Frontex executives stated that drones are needed «mainly to prevent the loss of human lives». Yet they are not used in a way that improves the migrants’ chances of being rescued after detection.

NEW investigation: Italy’s Guardia di Finanza has purchased new vertical take-off drones, claiming that they will be used to “combat illegal migration” in the Mediterranean. However, they might be used to facilitate pushbacks to Libya and Tunisia. Here’s what we found out 🧵

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” -Angela Davis Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis. "If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory." --Angela Davis

Now do the 'Libyan coast guard' next

These murderous policies are what is needed to stop the rise of the far right we have been told since the 90s It hasn't work obviously & instead normalised discourse based on the dehumanisation of the "other" People continue to die at ever more violent borders while we pretend to be the good guys

What an extraordinary example of the empty government rhetoric of anti trafficking approaches to migration. Osama Njeem Elamsry, under ICC arrest warrant for crimes against humanity and head of several detention centres in Libya, was released by Italy due to 'technical errors'. tinyurl.com/4eb8ta53

From yesterday: Statelessness – Asylum Aid legal challenge to family reunion rules change in High Court this week | Djamilla Hitchins https://freemovement.org.uk/statelessness-asylum-aid-legal-challenge-to-family-reunion-rules-change-in-high-court-this-week/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campai…

I know it’s banging my head against a wall at this point but the reason your ancestors came over legally through Ellis Island is because back then all you had to do to come legally was not die on the boat

New header picture! Screengrab from the incredible camera work by Julia Matyschik, who took a few videos of our Aurora work while on mission. Check her out: www.julia-matyschik.de

"The shift of the debate from whether the EU should have external processing centers, to *which lists* it uses to run them, speaks to the normalization of practices that not so long ago were hotly debated" Great piece by @eleanorbpaynter.net on the implications to externalisation beyond Italy