Border Criminologies

Border Criminologies brings together academics, practitioners, and those who have experienced border control from around the world to better understand the effects of border control and to explore alternatives. Read our blog for current research and reviews, or explore the website for events, teaching resources, and other materials. To contribute, read our guidelines or contact our editorial team: bordercrim@law.ox.ac.uk. To subscribe to our SSRN series that offers research papers on the intersections between criminal justice and migration control downloadable for free, visit this page.

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Immigration Detention Archive

A collection of objects made in detention and documents about these sites of confinement.

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Policing Migration

Alpa Parmar (Departmental Lecturer, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford)

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Subjectivity, Identity and Penal Power: Incarceration in a Global Age

Mary Bosworth (Principal Investigator, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford)

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Understanding Immigration Detention Staff

This project is run by Mary Bosworth, working with Dominic Aitken. Drawing on fieldwork in two IRCs...

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Understanding the current and future challenges of immigration detention

This is a project run by Mary Bosworth (Principal Investigator, Centre for Criminology, University...

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Measuring the Quality of Life in Detention

This project is lead by Prof. Mary Bosworth working with Alice Gerlach. Others involved include: Dr...

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Border Criminologies Masters' Dissertation/Thesis Prize

A prize to reward and encourage the next generation of scholars

Based at the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford, Border Criminologies is an international network of researchers, practitioners, and those who have experienced border control. Founded and run by Mary Bosworth, Border Criminologies is supported by a series of research grants from the European Research Council, the John Fell Fund, and the ESRC through their Impact Acceleration Account. Further funding is provided by Goldsmith Chambers and Garden Court Chambers. The Associate Directors -- Ana Aliverti, Vanessa Barker, and Alpa Parmar -- each lead specific aspects of the project while Andriani Fili is the Managing Editor of the Blog. Ines Hasselberg, Rimple Mehta and Gabriella Sanchez are the Book Review editors. Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll is Artist in Residence. Border Criminologies has institutional partnerships with the Border Crossing Observatory (Monash University), the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law (University of Oslo) and the Leiden Law School (Leiden University). Together we explore the growing interconnections between border control and criminal justice. In 2013 Border Criminologies established the first open access journal on migration, criminal justice and borders research.