Border Criminologies
When does care become control? ⛓️💥 Can we imagine more just modes of care? It was a great pleasure to meet for our workshop on Bordered Care this May, and hear about ever-valuable work being done ..
BORDR draws on publicly accessible material from several companies contracted by the Home Office to provide border control services in the UK. The film was made by Emma Brierley in collaboration wi...
"We have to do the work. So whether you're feeling hopeful or not shouldn't actually matter." Participants at our Annual Workshop in September 2025 give their thoughts on the role of hope in resear...
How can research disrupt hostile border systems, and how can we be creative in finding ways to do that? Our annual workshop brought us together with 60 participants on and offline over two days in ...
Reference/Reading List: Interview with Maria Giannacopoulos & Anthea Vogl
Chapter discussed in the interview: Giannacopoulos M, 2022, 'Nomocide or the Nonperformativity of Colonial Law', in Perfo
Reading List:
Interview with Anthea Vogl and Leanne Weber (in order of mention)
Weber, L (2013) Policing Non-Citizens, Abingdon, Routledge (Studies in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship s...
Refugee Protection and AAA and others (2023-4) | Panel 3: Enabling Refoulement? The UK-Rwanda Agreement and Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Sile Reynolds (Freedom from Torture), Pr...
The politics of killing slowly: A conversation on knowledge production on deportation and border violence in Northern Europe
The book Deportation limbo: State violence and contestations in the Nor...
REFUGEE PROTECTION AND AAA AND OTHERS (2023-4)
Hosted by Border Criminologies and the Refugee Studies Centre (University of Oxford) with The Dickson Poon School of Law (King’s College London).
Thi...
Professor Cathryn Costello, Raza Husain KC, and Dr Madeline Garlick
REFUGEE PROTECTION AND AAA AND OTHERS (2023-4)
Hosted by Border Criminologies and the Refugee Studies Centre (University of Oxf...
In this interview, Behrouz and Claire discuss the 2023 decision of the High Court of Australia that indefinite immigration detention is unlawful, leading to the immediate release of 92 people, 78 ...
To mark one year since the release of Stealing Time: Migration, Temporalities and State Violence, Victoria Canning (co-editor with Monish Bhatia, Birkbeck, University of London) highlights the reas...
Crimmigration - the intersection of criminal and immigration law - has been studied by academics from different backgrounds, through multiple concepts such as membership, exclusion, deterrence and ...
In April, the UK government announced new proposals to send people seeking asylum in the UK to Rwanda. In Denmark a similar plan of externalization of asylum processing is currently being pursued. ...
Digital Borders Interview: Reference & Reading List
Benjamin, R. (2019) Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. Social forces. Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/sf/soz
The first video in our series of 'Explaining immigration detention in Greece' highlights some basic facts about immigration detention in Greece and outlines recent legislation that affects immigrat...
The second video in our series 'Explaining Immigration Detention in Greece' draws on a leaflet we produced together with the Greek Council for Refugees and aims to work as a valuable resource for t...
The third video in our series 'Explaining Immigration Detention in Greece' focuses on Lesvos as a prison island and as such, it illuminates the growing intersections between practices of immigratio...
The fourth film in our series 'Explaining Immigration Detention in Greece' draws on the work of Dr. Evgenia Iliadou, who offers a moving, self-reflexive account of working and researching inside im...