Border Criminologies

Ten years after his detention, this author asks, “how committed can Canada be to human rights, if the people it detains are disproportionately Black men?”

Read the first of our two part series on structural racism in Canada's detention system 👇

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Hostile systems are designed to strip us of feeling. Creativity defies that attempt. Our co-director @mfbosworth.bsky.social is hosting this exciting event in two weeks time. Join us in Oxford/ online on 16 March to find out more about artists and activists opposing and documenting border control👇

Senior Policy Officer, Dr Sophie Cartwright, has written for @bordercrim.bsky.social about access to legal advice in detention.

JRS UK's research last year highlighted how difficult it was for people in immigration detention to access any legal support.

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Research by @jrsuk.bsky.social found that most people incarcerated in immigration detention in the UK cannot access meaningful legal advice and representation. Read the new post by Sophie Cartwright ⤵️

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As border control is increasingly staged for the camera, the visual now functions as a core component in consolidating an emergent multilateral deportation regime in the US. New post by Juan Antonio Del Monte Madrigal ⤵️

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Europe Expands Its Carceral Edge into Albania - Failed Architecture Italian offshore detention centers turn Albania into one of the EU’s border outposts.

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Not a dig at any reporter at all, but I encourage outlets to use detention population numbers as reported by DetentionReports.com instead of those reported by ICE.

To be clear, the facility-by-facility detainee numbers that ICE releases are not erroneous, just misleadingly out of date.

New Polling Data Shows Immigration Enforcement Is Costing Republicans Their Own Voters A new national survey finds 70% of Americans think the Trump administration is too focused on deportations. Immigration enforcement ranks as a top driver of defection among Trump's own 2024 voters.

72% of Americans support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants already here. That includes majorities of Trump's own voters. Congress has bipartisan bills ready. The public is not the obstacle.

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Today, our aircraft spotted a boat in distress with ~40 people on board. What followed was NOT a rescue. A Frontex aircraft was already on scene, complicit – from above – in an interception by the so-called Libyan coastguard.

📆 Happening next month! Hear from three artists about their creative responses to immigration detention, and the role of art in activism and academia. Sign up 👇
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Afghan women have been exposed to severe forms of violence at the border, after Iran initiated a major crackdown on migrants. Read the blog post by Neela Hassan ⤵️

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Rights groups urge airlines to halt ‘one in, one out’ deportation flights British and French activists write to Air France, AlbaStar, Titan and Corendon airlines over ‘shameful involvement’

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This is exciting! Our director, the brilliant @msumption.bsky.social, has written this super accessible and interesting book What is Immigration Policy For? (Spoiler alert: it’s complicated). Pre-order in the next three days for 25% off! Out on March 31 www.waterstones.com/book/what-is...

Thanks so much to @bordercrim.bsky.social for hosting this blog. One of the core findings of my book was around how models which were intended to support legal practitioners in helping their clients to show that they are, for example, a gay man were actually often working as a reason for refusal.

Read about the recent book on the history and present of Greek Immigration Detention by our @wellcometrust.bsky.social postdoc @andrianifili.bsky.social

Frameworks initially developed to help legal advisors support LGBTQ+ asylum claimants are increasingly used by decision-makers as reasons for refusal. @apowelllaw.bsky.social discusses the findings in his new book, Queering UK Refugee Law 📖👇

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Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban

Caged Histories brings together over a decade of research on Greek immigration detention, shedding light on violence – and resistance – in these blind spots. On writing her book and making detention visible @andrianifili.bsky.social 📚⤵️

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Migrants launch court bid to halt one-in, one-out deportations to France Legal challenge comes as a coalition of UK and French charities issue a statement warning of widespread failures under the flagship deal

We're proud to join 20+ organisations to call out the extreme harms caused by the UK-France 'one in, one out' deal.⁣
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For one person to reach the UK safely from France, another must endure a dangerous journey, be denied safety, & then subjected to detention & forced removal.⁣
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📆 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...

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 📚⤵️
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Storie ingabbiate Violenza e resistenza nei contesti di detenzione amministrativa in Grecia

📣📆 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 ⬇️

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Loss of life was 'avoidable' in deadliest ever Channel migrant boat sinking, inquiry finds More than 30 people died trying to make the journey from France to the UK in the early hours of 24 November 2021.

One survivor told the inquiry that they were treated differently because they were refugees. This led to delays in the search and rescue mission.

This is yet another tragic example of why racialised assumptions and racist rhetoric is so dangerous – it costs lives.

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Systemic failures, missed opportunities to act, and chronic under-resourcing undermined search and rescue, leading to men, women, and children dying in the Channel. The findings of the Cranston Inquiry are truly devastating.

Folding a River Explore the powerful themes of migration, memory and the fragile work of hope in 'Folding a River'. Let these poignant poems inspire you.

Now available on pre-order
Wild Goose publications have surpassed themselves with their gorgeous production values for our second poetry collection based on our work with Cultures of Sustainable Peace www.ionabooks.com/product/fold...

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 ⤵️

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✍️ 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.

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Five people confirmed dead so far and several people injured after a boat with people-smugglers carrying migrants collided with a Coastguard boat on the Greek island of #Chios on Tuesday night. Many are hospitalized while a Search and Rescue is underway for possible survivors.

Multiple factual misunderstandings persist in the way that immigration is often framed and discussed in media coverage and political commentary. Here some recurring new and old myths.