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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 3h

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 3h

📆 Join us on the 16th for the launch of Samuel Singler's new book, Outsourcing Crimmigration Control: Digital Borders, the IOM, and Biometric Statehood. Sign up to join online or in person 👇

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Book launch – Outsourcing Crimmigration Control

Abstract Samuel Singler will introduce his new book, Outsourcing Crimmigration Control. The book

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 4h

🙋 Our colleague @dianavolpe.bsky.social providing much needed insight on how Italy outsources its 'dirty work' to Libya as part of a migration agreement, and why recent attacks on rescue ships are unlikely to turn the tide ⤵️

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Italy-Libya migration pact under scrutiny as bullets fly

Years of criticism of an EU-backed migration pact between Italy and Libya are coming to a head as migrant rescuers say the Libyan coastguard has begun firing directly at them.

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 2d

🔥 These things got us talking at our annual workshop: creatively disrupting hostile border systems; navigating abolition; borderless empires vs bordered reparations.

Watch to find out more! 👇

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 2d

In India and the US, protection for asylum seekers seems to rest on political discretion, not legal obligation. Read the new blog post on translating Indian journeys to the US ⤵️

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 5d

Stateless children sometimes challenge the human rights violations that result from statelessness in court. In this new blog post, dissertation prize runner up Rachel Pop sheds light on her research on how certain elements of litigation may affect case outcome ⤵️

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 7d

Food, medical care, in-facility stores. There's 💰 to be gained from the business of immigration detention.

Find out more in the launch of Conlon and Hiemstra's new book, plus discussion with Prof Ruben Andersson, on 21 October, 5-6pm BST. Register here ⬇️

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 9d

When border control policies prioritise deterrence over protection, a paradox emerges. Italy is a case in point.

Read the new blog post by Luciano Magaldi Sardella and Matteo Mantuano ⤵️

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 12d

What happens when documentation, not rights, determines citizenship? How India’s largest biometric identification system rewrites citizenship.

New blog from Varalika Singh ⤵️

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 14d

"Produced in collaboration with people on the move, this film captures the everyday violence experienced by those seeking safety in North Africa."

Read the review of This Jungo Life, by @vickytaylor.bsky.social ⤵️

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Film Review: “This Jungo Life”

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 14d

Screening tomorrow! 📽️ This Jungo Life is showing at Genesis Cinema, Whitechapel, London, with a Q&A. The event raises funds for @captainsupportuk.bsky.social, a grassroots network supporting people criminalised for moving or supporting others to move.

Tickets 🎟️ www.genesiscinema.co.uk/event/101321

Events | Genesis Cinema

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 14d

Happening today! There's still space to come along to the book launch of Hannah Pool's The Game @ 12pm today. Access the meeting here 📚⬇️

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 14d

On 8 September, the Supreme Court signalled its support for ICE’s continued use of racial profiling in immigration policing. In the decision, “common sense” does the heavy lifting, at the expense of facts, evidence, and individual rights.

By Jennifer M. Chacón ⤵️

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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 14d

Am looking forward to today’s @bordercrim.bsky.social lunch time online book launch of Hannah Pool‘s new book The Game. Please join us. www.eventbrite.co.uk/x/book-launc...

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Rebecca Brennan @rebeccabrennan.bsky.social · 16d

"Supply Chain Justice offers a powerful, unsettling lens into how state and private contractors shape deportation regimes with an eye for efficiency over humanity"

Review of @mfbosworth.bsky.social's @princetonupress.bsky.social book in academic.oup.com/jrs/article-... by @janikakuge.bsky.social

The Border as a Service Job: Supply Chain Justice—the Logistics of British Border Control by Mary Bosworth

Today’s newspapers are strewn with increasingly restrictive and populist positions on migration control and asylum politics. Many of these positions imagin

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 16d

On a study trip to the US-Mexico border, this class did not break any rules or laws. Nevertheless, border authorities made them leave the area, blocking their access to information on this dehumanising border wall.

Read the new blog post ⤵️
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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 18d

Back from a wonderful @bordercrim.bsky.social annual workshop, feeling lucky to have such brilliant colleagues old and new. We always profile work of early career peeps and they are fab. So much creativity & passion. It’s hard to be uplifted at the moment. But this did the trick.

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Amy Cortvriend @amycortvriend.bsky.social · 18d

The last couple of days at #BorderCrim2025 have been wonderful. Saw old faces, met new people, heard about some exciting work. The theme of resistance recharged my activist battery a bit which has been in overuse for the last couple of years

Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 19d

It’s day two of #BorderCrim2025 annual workshop! We’re at Clare College @cambridgelaw.bsky.social starting the day with a panel on Gender, Violence and Exploitation.

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Julia Winkler @juliawinkler.bsky.social · 18d

Very happy that at this year’s conference of @bordercrim.bsky.social at @cambridgelaw.bsky.social there was a full panel on “Reframing Smuggling and Clandestine Migration as Acts of Knowledge and De-Bordering” that I was invited to participate in, alongside many other great and interesting research!

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 18d

@tomkemp.bsky.social:

"There is a tension in border abolition: a desire to start with and attend to violence and injustice, and an understanding of border violence as a product and continuation of social, economic forces that are not (solely) located at the border"

#BorderCrim2025

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 18d

@jillalpes.bsky.social on theorising transformative knowledge encounters:

"If we want to understand political processes, we need to understand the role of knowledge in political processes"

#BorderCrim2025 @cambridgelaw.bsky.social

A series of people are sitting in a seminar room looking at the screen where the presenter is discussing their presentation online

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 19d

Just starting on our last panel of the conference on Detention and Deportation, Wing Yin Anna Tsui discusses the case of detainee resistance in Hong Kong:

"Symbolic victories over everyday requests mattered a lot, perhaps even more than principled demand for undeportability"

#BorderCrim2025

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 19d

Ismini Mathioudaki on pre-emptive surveillance in Evros at the Greece-Turkey border, and the technological experimentation occurring there:

“It was quite clear what this system is used for, and it’s not search and rescue purposes.”

#BorderCrim2025

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 19d

In an exploration of Japan’s integration of immigration and customs control, Yu Furukawa unpacks the joint-kiosk:

“In the name of speed, passengers provide information that may later restrict their mobility”

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 19d

Maya Ellen Hertz discusses the use of social media as evidence in refugee status determination (RSD) in Denmark:

"Increasingly social media is used as a part of RSD, but social media - with their own arbiters and politics - are far from their own arbiters of truth"

#BorderCrim2025

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