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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Human Rights Protections at the Border: Immigration detention

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Exploring the Greek Immigration Detention System: Mapping Resistance from the Inside and Out

Andriani Fili, Research Assistant, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford/PhD candidate,...

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Border Criminologies Masters' Dissertation/Thesis Prize

A prize to reward and encourage the next generation of scholars

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Nordic Nationalism and Penal Order: Walling the Welfare State

Vanessa Barker, Docent and Associate Professor of Sociology, Stockholm University and Visiting...

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European Border Communities

Prof. Dr Maartje van der Woude (Leiden University)

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Policing the Borders Within: Law Enforcement in a Global Age

Ana Aliverti (Associate Professor of Law, School of Law, University of Warwick)

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Policing Migration

Alpa Parmar (Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford)

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Immigration Detention and the Changing Nature of Penal Power

This project is run by Mary Bosworth, Director of Border Criminologies and Director of the Centre...

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Immigration Detention Archive

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

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 research grants from the ESRC through their Impact Acceleration Account, the ISRF, and by the NWO. Further funding is provided by Goldsmith Chambers and Garden Court Chambers. The Associate Directors -- Vanessa Barker, Sanja Milivojevic, Alpa Parmar, Juliet Stumpf, and Maartje van der Woude-- each lead specific aspects of the project while Andriani Fili is the Managing Editor. 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 European Border Communities research group at 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.