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.

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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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Leverhulme International Network on External Border Control

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The Postcolonial Prison: Citizenship, Punishment and Mobility

Ines Hasselberg (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford)

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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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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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Home and Away: Gender, Nation, Deportation

Sarah Turnbull (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford)

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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...

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. Border Criminologies hosts 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. Run by Mary Bosworth, Border Criminologies is supported through research grants from the European Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, the John Fell Fund, and the ESRC-IAA Fund at the University of Oxford. Associate Directors are Ines Hasselberg, Alpa Parmar and Ana Aliverti. Andriani Fili is the Leverhulme International Network Facilitator and the Managing Editor of the Blog. Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll is the Border Criminologies Artist in Residence.