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Out of Place in Blue Space: Noticing as a Stopping Technology and the Limits of Stop and Search Reform Abstract. This paper introduces the concept of ‘blue space’ as a theoretical framework for (re)defining the boundaries of police stops. Reflecting on ethno

Excited to share our new paper in the British Journal of Criminology!

We introduce the concept of “blue space” to explore how police presence and “noticing” act as stopping technologies that bypass statutory police power to stop

You can check it out here:

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UCU Scotland: proud to support today’s Aye Welcome Refugees demo #AyeWelcomeRefugees #StopTheFarRight

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NEW! Check out @drconorwilson.bsky.social's new article for #TheoreticalCrim, "‘I think they’re the real villains in all of this’: Crimmigrant visuality and representations of people smuggling in state use of Twitter/X." Now available in #OnlineFirst: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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(Reposted without typos!)

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‘I think they’re the real villains in all of this’: Crimmigrant visuality and representations of people smuggling in state use of Twitter/X - Conor Wilson, 2025 Although a growing body of research highlights the convergence of humanitarianism and border policing, little attention has been paid to the importance of the v...

My article is now available (OA) in Theoretical Criminology (@theoreticalcrim.bsky.social)

Hopefully of interest to anyone interested in humanitarian borders, border spectacles or visual criminology! You access for free here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Did Brexit unleash new suffering on UK farms? The seasonal worker visa made the UK’s migrant agricultural workforce more vulnerable to exploitation

Did Brexit unleash new suffering on UK farms?
The seasonal worker visa made the UK’s migrant agricultural workforce more vulnerable to exploitation, says one expert ⤵️
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...

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