Mary Bosworth

Join author Lambros Fatsis at an event to celebrate his new book, 'Policing the beats: Black music, racism and criminal injustice'.

Appearing at @conwayhall.bsky.social, @faneproductions.bsky.social, @imaginebelfast.bsky.social & @housmansbookshop.bsky.social.

More info on our Events page.

One of the sub-themes for this year's BSC Conference is "Hope, transformation and justice: Developing capacity for change." Our plenary speaker Dr Jason Warr, Associate Professor in Criminology @uniofnottingham.bsky.social will address this sub-theme! @britishcriminology.bsky.social
#BSCC2026

The British Academy - Head of Communications and Marketing - £70,000 (London, ENG) OUR CLIENT:The British Academy is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social...

Come work with me! We are recruiting for a Head of Comms and Marketing to help us communicate the work of @britishacademy.bsky.social and the power of the humanities and social sciences in making sense of our changing world
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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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February 26, 2026 Dear members of the Columbia community: This morning at approximately 6:30 a.m., federal agents from the Department of Homeland Security entered a Columbia Residential building and detained a student. We are working to gather more information, working to reach the family, and providing legal support. Our understanding at this time is that the federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a "missing person." We are working to gather more details. It is important to reiterate that all law enforcement agents must have a judicial warrant or judicial subpoena to access non-public areas of the University, including

It is important to reiterate that all law enforcement agents must have a judicial warrant or judicial subpoena to access non-public areas of the University, including housing, classrooms, and areas requiring CUID swipe access. An administrative warrant is not sufficient. If law enforcement agents seek entry to non-public areas of the University, ask the agents to wait to enter any non-public areas until contacting Public Safety. Public Safety will contact the Office of the General Counsel to coordinate the University's response. Do not allow them to enter or accept service of a warrant or subpoena. We will update our community as additional information becomes available. Sincerely,

BREAKING: Columbia President Claire Shipman says DHS agents entered a residential buliding this morning and detained a student.

"Our understanding at this time is that the federal agents made misrepresentations to gain entry to the building to search for a 'missing person.'"

Asylum Welcome is seeking a new Chair of Trustees - Asylum Welcome We are looking for two new trustees to join our board - a treasurer and a trustee with lived experience.

📣 We’re looking for a new Chair of Trustees (voluntary role) to help guide Asylum Welcome at a crucial time.

A chance to use your leadership skills to support people rebuilding their lives in safety.

Interested or have someone in mind? See more details on our website: www.asylum-welcome.org/chair/

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🗣️CHECK IT OUT🗣️ #TheoreticalCrim is pleased to announce the 2025 Best Article Prize has been awarded to Samuel Singler for his article 'Surveillance evangelism: Private technology companies and the digital futures of crimmigration control.' Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.....

Asylum Pact 2.0: the EU amends the rules on ‘safe third countries’ and ‘safe countries of origin’ Steve Peers , Professor of Law, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit : Paula Reister, via Wikimedia Commons Introductio...

An EU Rwanda policy for asylum-seekers?
My analysis of the new changes to EU law on "safe third countries" and "safe countries of origin"
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The number of people held in ICE detention on any given day rose by over 75% in 2025, with a record 73,000 people being held in detention as of mid-January.

And with Congress authorizing $45 billion in new detention funding, the system could more than triple in size over the next four years.

End arbitrary detention of forcibly displaced people in inhumane conditions.

With #Sudan’s ongoing conflict and continued instability in parts of Syria, Egypt has become a primary host country for those fleeing violence.

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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📆 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 👇
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

What about if you had measles? Does that give life long immunity or is it worth having the jab?

What Louise Thompson’s campaign tells us about the national maternity

Frances Hand from @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social reflects on the campaign by TV star Louise Thompson to appoint a UK Maternity Commissioner and what this could mean for the thousands of women who give birth in the NHS every year.

Find out more⬇️

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.

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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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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Today!!!

🚨NEW EPISODE 🎧

Frey Lindsey from @statewatch.bsky.social tells us how the Libyan Coastguard isn’t a unified organisation but a mixture of armed factions. 

We also discuss a leaked EU document proposing new ‘place of safety arrangements’ with non-European Mediterranean countries.

🌊What happened in the central Mediterranean in January?

➡️1,000 people may have died (380 are missing)
➡️1,196 people reached Italy by sea
➡️1,292 people were intercepted and forcibly returned to Libya
➡️113 deaths are confirmed (real number is likely much higher)
➡️Several shipwrecks remain unresolved

that's interesting to know since post-menopause I'm sad to say, I know quite a few women (me included) to whom new allergies seem to have emerged... which I guess would be related....

Nz has lamingtons too?? did aus steal them & then claim them? I’m still recovering from the horror of the “pineapple lumps” that I bought my friend here from the online aus/nz/sa shop when she was homesick!

But will it be a party pie? (Or perhaps a potato pie?). I still miss them from aus… do hope you avoid ICE detention en route

So much more fun than hanging around in sites of detention I imagine

We are recruiting Trustees to join our board and support us in our work to promote the welfare and rights of people in immigration detention!
Application deadline: 12th March 2026
You may find more information on our website: detentionaction.org.uk/become-a-tru...

A bright red black and white book cover of folding the river

A copy of the poem thinkwalking from fold me a river

I bought a copy and it arrived tonight. Am enjoying it very much

The National Preventive Mechanism is looking for a Head of Secretariat.

This is an exciting role working with 21 NPM-member organisations to provide policy, research and secretarial support.

Find out more and apply at: jobs.justice.gov.uk/careers/JobD...

Closing date: 9 March 2026

📆 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...

New fully-funded scholarship for graduate students with lived experience of forced displacement A new scholarship will open up the opportunity for more scholars from displaced backgrounds to undertake research at the Refugee Studies Centre.

Looks like good news!