Border Criminologies Annual Workshop 2024: Challenges and Futures

Please join us for the Border Criminologies Annual Workshop, hosted by the Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Essex. This year’s workshop will mark the formal launch of the network’s new thematic groups, with cutting-edge research on display across all our thematic research areas by researchers from across the globe.

The Border Criminologies network has grown rapidly over the past decade, and our members are now active across a wide variety of interdisciplinary issues. The workshop will provide an opportunity to take stock of current challenges across the border criminological agenda, assess upcoming developments in these fields, and strategize about how Border Criminologies and its members can tackle these issues in the future. Structuring our efforts according to the new thematic groups is a key step in this direction.

Lunch will be provided on both days of the workshop. 

Agenda 

Thursday 26th September  

9:00–9:15 Coffee and welcoming remarks  

9:15–10:45
Panel 1 – Detention and deportation 

‘Legal and Extra-legal Actors in Immigration Control: Checkpoints in the Southern Border of Mexico’
Alethia Fernandez Reguera 

‘The ‘legitimacy work’ of fundamental rights and forced return monitoring in deportations from Europe’ 
Nicola Marie Ostrand 

‘Prefiguration and the post-representational politics of anti-detention activism’  
Tom Kemp 

‘Border Encounters: How Citizens React to Immigration Detention in Canada and Italy’ 
Maxine Both 

‘Vulnerabilities, healthcare and safeguards in UK immigration detention’ 
NGO Medical Justice 

11:00–12:30
Panel 2 – Border zemiologies 

‘The mental harms of bordering policies and practices in the Netherlands’ 
Imen El Amouri 

‘Forced Migration and Borders: Stories of Syrian Single Mothers’ 
Fatmanur Delioglu 

‘Intergenerational Harms: Legacies and Memories of Forced Migration, Border Controls, and Violence in Greece’ 
Evgenia Iliadou 

‘Counterterrorism as permanent crimmigration: for a zemiology of terror’ 
Francesca Soliman 

‘What and who is Border Zemiologies for?’ 
Victoria Canning 

12:30–13:30 Lunch 

13:30–15:00
Panel 3 – Border policing and emotions 

‘Border Politics and Sexuality Struggles: Methodological Considerations and Reflexivities of Discomfort’ 
Steph Hanlon   

‘Between secrecy and calculated disclosure: researching bordering as a practice through Freedom of Information Requests’ 
Amalia Campos Delgado 

‘Changing the Border from Within? Reflections on the impact of studying the border as practice’ 
Maartje van der Woude 

‘Reflecting on 10 years of Studying the Border(s) as Practice’ 
Karine Côté Boucher 

15:15–16:45
Panel 4 – Technology and digital futures  

‘How contentious publics made the automation of visa assessment illegible: a Canadian case’ 
Karine Côté-Boucher and Mireille Paquet 

‘Logistics of Exclusion: Border Technologies and the Logistical Paradigm of Immigration Enforcement’ 
Austin Kocher 

‘Mapping legal and socio-technical infrastructures: datafication of human mobility in ECOWAS’ 
Alice Fill 

‘Securitising mobility by design: Violent ends of border security research and development devices’ 
Sarah Perret 

‘Navigating the Digital Border: Visibility, Invisibility, and the Politics of Migration Governance in the European Context’ 
Ismini Mathioudaki 

18:30– Dinner at Wivenhoe House 

Friday 27th September 

9:15–10:45
Panel 5 – Gender, violence and exploitation 

Speakers TBC 

11:00–12:30
Panel 6 – Asylum and borders 

‘How is exclusion organised? Transit, urgency and humanitarianism at the UK-French border’ 
Eva Spiekermann 

‘The ‘migrantification’ of asylum: the discursive de-legitimation of refugees and movement in the Italian political sphere’ 
Diana Volpe  

‘Unmaking asylum through the notion of safe-third countries: why the UK- Rwanda deal is just the beginning’ 
David Suber 

‘Examining the Khartoum Process: The Role of International Non-Governmental Organizations and Non-Profit Organizations in the Externalization of Europe’s Borders in Sudan’ 
Reem Abdalla  

‘Access to justice for refugees and asylum seekers in Greece’ 
Vivi Paschalidou, Lawyer and Researcher, Greek Council for Refugees  

12:30–13:30 Lunch 

13:30–15:00
Panel 7 – Law and the courts 

‘Criminalising immigration and asylum: The racialised underpinnings of exclusionary lawand policy in the UK’ 
Sarah Singer   

‘What’s in a Sentence? Racialized Narratives and Space in Immigration Courtrooms’  
Alpa Parmar 

‘Cruel and Usual: Racial Cruelty in US Immigration Courts’ 
Nabila Islam   

“This is a court of law, not of justice”: Reflections from courtwatching the criminalisation of people seeking asylum in the UK’ 
Vicky Taylor   

‘Regressive Safe Third Country Agreements and Racialised Difference in the Courtroom’
Nicola Palmer