Detention and Deportation

Research on immigration detention and deportation systems has been a key priority for the Border Criminologies research network since its beginning. Our ongoing ethnographic work in the UK, Greece,...

Asylum and Border Criminology

This thematic group seeks to bring discussions around asylum and refugee realities, (b)ordering practices and (in)justices more explicitly into Border Criminology. As the number of people forcibly displaced globally increases...

Technology and Digital Futures

This thematic group focuses on the relationship between technology, border control, and criminal justice. Technical devices and tools—both low tech objects like fences and walls, and high tech digital databases...

Law and the Courts

Understanding how migration and criminal law work together to shape borders is a key thematic area for Border Criminologies. By working together in this thematic group, we aim to consider...

Gender, Violence and Exploitation

This thematic group focuses on gender, violence and exploitation in the context of bordering practices and border control. This focus includes gendered violence ranging from domestic and family violence to...

Border Policing and Emotions

Coordinators: Maartje van der Woude, Lisa Borrelli, Amalia Campos Delgado and Irene Vega While departing from the stance that borders and the measures put in place to monitor those crossing...