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R (AAA) v SSHD [2023] 30 June 2023 by Catherine Briddick The Criminalisation of Migrant Solidarity Actors in the British Tabloid Press 10 May 2023 by Sébastien Bachelet Maria Hagan Double Book Review: Migrants and Refugees at UK Borders: Hostility and ‘Unmaking’ the Human and Everyday Border Struggles: Segregation and Solidarity in the UK and Calais 14 April 2023 by Victoria Taylor The Religious Care Spaces in Immigration Detention 24 March 2023 by Gregory Lee Cuéllar Who gets to belong in the UK? 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The cooperation with Libyan authorities was not necessary, because what they do cannot be qualified as “rescue”. 28 October 2024 by Chiara Denaro 5) Book Review: After Border Externalization: Migration, Race and Labour in Mauritania by Hassan Ould Moctar 6 June 2025 by Imen El Amouri 6) Pakistan’s deportation policy: Questioning its adherence to non-refoulement 9 June 2025 by Hanna Gjelsvik Berg 7) From Invisibility to Vulnerability: Twenty Years After Menezes and the Ongoing Erasure and Criminalisation of Brazilians in the UK 4 July 2025 by Thi Bogossian 8) Resettlement as a Temporal Border 27 June 2025 by Laura Lambert 9) AI for border control – a ‘geopolitical innovation race’ at the EU’s external borders 11 July 2025 by Stefka Schmid Julia Mahlberg 10) Sufism in Exile as Border Thinking (Part One) 14 July 2025 by Mujib Abid With the support of Connect with us
White Saviours versus White Borders: Constructions of Race in the Visual Representations of Refugees in UK Newspapers 23 September 2024 by Hannah Ryan
White Saviours versus White Borders: Constructions of Race in the Visual Representations of Refugees in UK Newspapers 23 September 2024 by Hannah Ryan
Destitute and in Danger: people made homeless by the asylum system 4 September 2024 by Sophie Cartwright
Destitute and in Danger: people made homeless by the asylum system 4 September 2024 by Sophie Cartwright
The Love that Must Speak Its Name: Inadmissibility, Credibility and LGBTIQA+ Asylum in 2024 17 May 2024 by Alex Powell
The Love that Must Speak Its Name: Inadmissibility, Credibility and LGBTIQA+ Asylum in 2024 17 May 2024 by Alex Powell
The Criminalisation of Migrant Solidarity Actors in the British Tabloid Press 10 May 2023 by Sébastien Bachelet Maria Hagan
The Criminalisation of Migrant Solidarity Actors in the British Tabloid Press 10 May 2023 by Sébastien Bachelet Maria Hagan
Double Book Review: Migrants and Refugees at UK Borders: Hostility and ‘Unmaking’ the Human and Everyday Border Struggles: Segregation and Solidarity in the UK and Calais 14 April 2023 by Victoria Taylor
Double Book Review: Migrants and Refugees at UK Borders: Hostility and ‘Unmaking’ the Human and Everyday Border Struggles: Segregation and Solidarity in the UK and Calais 14 April 2023 by Victoria Taylor
The IOM and the Trump administration: a turning point in the organization’s history? 9 May 2025 by Sabine Dini Shoshana Fine Antoine Pécoud
The IOM and the Trump administration: a turning point in the organization’s history? 9 May 2025 by Sabine Dini Shoshana Fine Antoine Pécoud
Crotone court’s judging illegitimate the SOS-Humanity’s seizure. The cooperation with Libyan authorities was not necessary, because what they do cannot be qualified as “rescue”. 28 October 2024 by Chiara Denaro
Crotone court’s judging illegitimate the SOS-Humanity’s seizure. The cooperation with Libyan authorities was not necessary, because what they do cannot be qualified as “rescue”. 28 October 2024 by Chiara Denaro
Book Review: After Border Externalization: Migration, Race and Labour in Mauritania by Hassan Ould Moctar 6 June 2025 by Imen El Amouri
Book Review: After Border Externalization: Migration, Race and Labour in Mauritania by Hassan Ould Moctar 6 June 2025 by Imen El Amouri
Pakistan’s deportation policy: Questioning its adherence to non-refoulement 9 June 2025 by Hanna Gjelsvik Berg
Pakistan’s deportation policy: Questioning its adherence to non-refoulement 9 June 2025 by Hanna Gjelsvik Berg
From Invisibility to Vulnerability: Twenty Years After Menezes and the Ongoing Erasure and Criminalisation of Brazilians in the UK 4 July 2025 by Thi Bogossian
From Invisibility to Vulnerability: Twenty Years After Menezes and the Ongoing Erasure and Criminalisation of Brazilians in the UK 4 July 2025 by Thi Bogossian
AI for border control – a ‘geopolitical innovation race’ at the EU’s external borders 11 July 2025 by Stefka Schmid Julia Mahlberg
AI for border control – a ‘geopolitical innovation race’ at the EU’s external borders 11 July 2025 by Stefka Schmid Julia Mahlberg
