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Handbook on Border Criminology
This topical Handbook investigates the nature and impact of intersections between border control and criminal justice. Using comparative and decolonial perspectives, it demonstrates the corrosive effect of harsh border practices not just on those subject to them, but to many of the key principles of liberal democracy.
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This topical Handbook investigates the nature and impact of intersections between border control and criminal justice. Using comparative and decolonial perspectives, it demonstrates the corrosive effect of harsh border practices not just on those subject to them, but to many of the key principles of liberal democracy.
The Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the rapidly growing field of border criminology and introduces original research, new theoretical perspectives and methodological innovations. It considers the relationship between research and activism as well as the lived experiences of those subject to border control. International scholars from a range of social science disciplines, including criminology, socio-legal studies, sociology and anthropology critically assess the nature, findings, and implications of the intersections between border control and criminal justice. In response to politically charged debates on immigration and border policing, they dissect the punitive laws and policies and consider alternatives.
The Handbook on Border Criminology is an unmissable read for students and scholars of criminology, socio-legal studies, migration, borders, human rights and public international law. In its global reach, this unique Handbook is also of great benefit to practitioners and policy makers.
The Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the rapidly growing field of border criminology and introduces original research, new theoretical perspectives and methodological innovations. It considers the relationship between research and activism as well as the lived experiences of those subject to border control. International scholars from a range of social science disciplines, including criminology, socio-legal studies, sociology and anthropology critically assess the nature, findings, and implications of the intersections between border control and criminal justice. In response to politically charged debates on immigration and border policing, they dissect the punitive laws and policies and consider alternatives.
The Handbook on Border Criminology is an unmissable read for students and scholars of criminology, socio-legal studies, migration, borders, human rights and public international law. In its global reach, this unique Handbook is also of great benefit to practitioners and policy makers.
Critical Acclaim
‘The Handbook on Border Criminology offers an essential exploration of the complex intersections of race, gender, and justice in border enforcement. With rich theoretical foundations and critical case studies, this comprehensive work challenges conventional perspectives on immigration, criminalization, and human rights, making it indispensable to scholars and activists alike.’
– Maartje van der Woude, Leiden University, the Netherlands
‘Braiding pathbreaking and poignant conversations between border criminology and the social sciences, the Handbook on Border Criminology addresses one of the most urgent challenges of our times. A creative, clarifying, compelling and constructive brief to end carceral cultures within and across borders, it is breathtakingly powerful. A must read.’
– Pratiksha Baxi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
‘This volume makes an extraordinary contribution to the dynamic and vibrant field of border criminologies. Through a dialogue between the Global North and Global South, the Handbook offers epistemological, theoretical and methodological tools, including feminist, decolonial and affective turn perspectives, to critically and comparatively analyse the governance of multi-sited and multi-scale borders. And at the same time conveying not only the ethical and political commitment of the authors but raising new questions and identifying possible responses to border injustice.’
– Alethia Fernández de la Reguera Ahedo, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico
‘This timely book exposes the raw edges of border criminology. An impressive range of scholarly voices and disciplines excavate the most pressing questions of our day around bordered penality and the interconnection of crime control and migration. The Handbook on Border Criminology is a must-read for anyone seeking insight into the interplay of power and coercion through border practices on a global scale.’
– Juliet P. Stumpf, Lewis & Clark Law School, US
‘An excellent, interdisciplinary Handbook produced “in the shadow” of Ukraine and Gaza, this volume places before us the challenges of building critical decolonial knowledge in the field of border criminology, through a deep engagement with different types of borders across different regions globally.’
– Kalpana Kannabiran, Council for Social Development, India
– Maartje van der Woude, Leiden University, the Netherlands
‘Braiding pathbreaking and poignant conversations between border criminology and the social sciences, the Handbook on Border Criminology addresses one of the most urgent challenges of our times. A creative, clarifying, compelling and constructive brief to end carceral cultures within and across borders, it is breathtakingly powerful. A must read.’
– Pratiksha Baxi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
‘This volume makes an extraordinary contribution to the dynamic and vibrant field of border criminologies. Through a dialogue between the Global North and Global South, the Handbook offers epistemological, theoretical and methodological tools, including feminist, decolonial and affective turn perspectives, to critically and comparatively analyse the governance of multi-sited and multi-scale borders. And at the same time conveying not only the ethical and political commitment of the authors but raising new questions and identifying possible responses to border injustice.’
– Alethia Fernández de la Reguera Ahedo, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico
‘This timely book exposes the raw edges of border criminology. An impressive range of scholarly voices and disciplines excavate the most pressing questions of our day around bordered penality and the interconnection of crime control and migration. The Handbook on Border Criminology is a must-read for anyone seeking insight into the interplay of power and coercion through border practices on a global scale.’
– Juliet P. Stumpf, Lewis & Clark Law School, US
‘An excellent, interdisciplinary Handbook produced “in the shadow” of Ukraine and Gaza, this volume places before us the challenges of building critical decolonial knowledge in the field of border criminology, through a deep engagement with different types of borders across different regions globally.’
– Kalpana Kannabiran, Council for Social Development, India
Contents
Contents
Border criminology: an introduction 1
Mary Bosworth, Katja Franko, Maggy Lee and Rimple Mehta
PART I HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
1 Hierarchies of citizenship: borders, global inequality and the injustice
of membership 11
Katja Franko
2 Bordered orders and affective states: unravelling, rethinking, abolishing 25
Ana Aliverti
3 “Crimmigration”: race, and Critical Race Theory in the United States 41
Jennifer M. Chacón
4 Women crossing: an investigation of gender, border policy, and
immigration (in)justice 57
Allison B. Wolf
5 Comparative border criminology: promises and pitfalls 72
José A. Brandariz
PART II LAW AND POLITICS
6 Citizenship deprivation: punishment or rights revocation? 90
Lucia Zedner
7 The juridico-legal construction of the migrant subject: the discourse of
‘Bangladeshi infiltrator’ in Indian law 106
Paresh Hate
8 Race and United States immigration policy: from criminalization to
deportation 121
Sarah Tosh
9 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the structuring role of race in the
politics and practice of refugee deterrence 138
Anthea Vogl
10 Beyond Fortress Europe: instrumentalised migration management in
Central and Eastern Europe 155
Diego Caballero-Vélez, Maggy Lee and Matthew Light
PART III POLICING AND BORDERS
11 The deep structure of internal borders 172
Leanne Weber
12 The technopolitics of crimmigration control: targeting bodies and
re-scaling borders 189
Samuel Singler and Sanja Milivojevic
13 EU border externalisation and uneven development in West Africa 205
Hassan Ould Moctar
14 Humanitarian border policing 220
Polly Pallister-Wilkins
PART IV INCARCERATION
15 All-foreign prisons: sites of (colonial) nation-building 235
Hallam Tuck and Dorina Damsa
16 Immigration detention and violence in Greece 253
Andriani Fili and Mary Bosworth
17 Women, (im)mobilities and ethical loneliness: re-defining ‘justice’ and
‘sovereignty’ through care 268
Rimple Mehta
18 Gender, mobilities and imprisonment: entanglements between borders,
migration control and criminal (in)justice in the experiences of
non-citizen women in Italy and Brazil 283
Natália Corazza Padovani and Francesca Esposito
19 Harm beyond surveillance: rethinking refugees’ carcerality through the
confinement continuum 298
Martina Tazzioli
PART V COMMUNITY AND ACTIVISM
20 Autobiographic reflections on loss, longing, and recovery 312
Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes
21 Exponential expansionism: key contemporary challenges to
immigration detention abolitionism 329
Monish Bhatia and Victoria Canning
22 Notes from a shelter: the radical hope of border criminology 343
Bill De La Rosa
23 Refugee protection in non-signatory states: activism for and by refugees
in Malaysia and Indonesia 355
Antje Missbach and Gerhard Hoffstaedter
PART VI EPILOGUE
24 Radical recognition: a border criminology theory of justice 371
Vanessa Barker
Border criminology: an introduction 1
Mary Bosworth, Katja Franko, Maggy Lee and Rimple Mehta
PART I HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
1 Hierarchies of citizenship: borders, global inequality and the injustice
of membership 11
Katja Franko
2 Bordered orders and affective states: unravelling, rethinking, abolishing 25
Ana Aliverti
3 “Crimmigration”: race, and Critical Race Theory in the United States 41
Jennifer M. Chacón
4 Women crossing: an investigation of gender, border policy, and
immigration (in)justice 57
Allison B. Wolf
5 Comparative border criminology: promises and pitfalls 72
José A. Brandariz
PART II LAW AND POLITICS
6 Citizenship deprivation: punishment or rights revocation? 90
Lucia Zedner
7 The juridico-legal construction of the migrant subject: the discourse of
‘Bangladeshi infiltrator’ in Indian law 106
Paresh Hate
8 Race and United States immigration policy: from criminalization to
deportation 121
Sarah Tosh
9 Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the structuring role of race in the
politics and practice of refugee deterrence 138
Anthea Vogl
10 Beyond Fortress Europe: instrumentalised migration management in
Central and Eastern Europe 155
Diego Caballero-Vélez, Maggy Lee and Matthew Light
PART III POLICING AND BORDERS
11 The deep structure of internal borders 172
Leanne Weber
12 The technopolitics of crimmigration control: targeting bodies and
re-scaling borders 189
Samuel Singler and Sanja Milivojevic
13 EU border externalisation and uneven development in West Africa 205
Hassan Ould Moctar
14 Humanitarian border policing 220
Polly Pallister-Wilkins
PART IV INCARCERATION
15 All-foreign prisons: sites of (colonial) nation-building 235
Hallam Tuck and Dorina Damsa
16 Immigration detention and violence in Greece 253
Andriani Fili and Mary Bosworth
17 Women, (im)mobilities and ethical loneliness: re-defining ‘justice’ and
‘sovereignty’ through care 268
Rimple Mehta
18 Gender, mobilities and imprisonment: entanglements between borders,
migration control and criminal (in)justice in the experiences of
non-citizen women in Italy and Brazil 283
Natália Corazza Padovani and Francesca Esposito
19 Harm beyond surveillance: rethinking refugees’ carcerality through the
confinement continuum 298
Martina Tazzioli
PART V COMMUNITY AND ACTIVISM
20 Autobiographic reflections on loss, longing, and recovery 312
Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes
21 Exponential expansionism: key contemporary challenges to
immigration detention abolitionism 329
Monish Bhatia and Victoria Canning
22 Notes from a shelter: the radical hope of border criminology 343
Bill De La Rosa
23 Refugee protection in non-signatory states: activism for and by refugees
in Malaysia and Indonesia 355
Antje Missbach and Gerhard Hoffstaedter
PART VI EPILOGUE
24 Radical recognition: a border criminology theory of justice 371
Vanessa Barker
