Border Criminologies blog

Our blog disseminates original research from around the world, first-hand accounts of border control, legal analysis and book reviews. To contribute, read our guidelines or contact our editorial team: bordercrim@law.ox.ac.uk.

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Welcome to Border Criminologies

Border Criminologies is an international network of researchers, practitioners, and those who have experienced border control. See also Centre for Criminology.

Border Criminologies is supported by Leiden University's Interdisciplinary research programme Social Citizenship & Migration (SCM) and the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance & Society (VVI).

Our Associate Directors

Our Advisory Board

Our Research Students

Thematic Groups and Research Partners

Our research network is organised across thematic groups, to open pathways to new collaborations, with each strand headed by at least two people who responsible for organising events and research. Please read more below, and reach out to us if you have any collaborative ideas.

Detention and Deportation

Asylum and Border Criminology

Technology and Digital Futures

Law and the Courts

Gender, Violence and Exploitation

Border Policing and Emotions

Border Zemiologies

ANZSOC Borders

Our annual reports and monthly newsletters

You can read our latest Annual Report here (for previous years see here: 2022-2023, 2021-2022, 2020-2021, 2019-2020, 2018-2019, 2017-2018).

You can read our monthly newsletters here.

Our YouTube channel

Our channel features recorded seminars and workshops, a collaborative digital teaching resource made by migration scholars who highlight the significant aspects of their research for teaching purposes, and videos that summarise our research.

For more videos visit our channel.

Student Chapter

A diverse group of students created the student chapter of the Border Criminologies Network to get young people engaged and expand conversation in immigration issues and injustices, particularly surrounding border control.

All of their events, posts and actions will be made accessible via their social media accounts (Twitter and Instagram), mailing list, and newsletter (subscribe here: https://linktr.ee/bordercriminologiessc). They can also be reached with any enquiries or blog submissions via their email (bordercrimstudentchapter@gmail.com). Please do not hesitate to contact them and get involved in our border control conversations.