Routledge Studies in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship
About the Book Series
Globalizing forces have had a profound impact on the nature of contemporary criminal justice and law more generally. This is evident in the increasing salience of borders and mobility in the production of illegality and social exclusion. Immigration and its control are highly charged topics in contemporary crime policy and politics. In the past two decades such matters have become subjects of extensive scholarly analysis throughout the social sciences. Though criminology has been a relative latecomer to this body of work, it is now possible to speak of an emerging ‘criminology of mobility.
Routledge Studies in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship showcases contemporary studies that connect criminological scholarship to migration studies and explores the intellectual resonances between the two. It provides an opportunity to reflect on the theoretical and methodological challenges posed by mass mobility and its control. By doing that, it aims to chart an intellectual space and establish a theoretical tradition within criminology to house scholars of immigration control, who have traditionally published either in general criminological or in anthropological, sociological, refugee studies, human rights and other publications.
Caged Histories: Violence and Resistance in Greek Immigration Detention
1st Edition
By Andriani Fili
October 29, 2025
This book offers an unprecedented exploration of Greece's immigration detention system, uncovering its hidden histories, systemic violence, and the struggles of those confined within its walls. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic research and personal experience as an NGO practitioner, it ...
Intertwining Criminal Justice and Immigration Control in the EU
1st Edition
Edited
By Niovi Vavoula, Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi, Valsamis Mitsilegas
September 09, 2025
This book offers a contemporary understanding of the state of the art of "crimmigration" with a focus on the European Union and challenges this paradigm of intersecting criminal justice and immigration control. The contributions to this book explore the conceptual and philosophical underpinnings of...
Delivering Justice to Non-Citizens: How Criminal Courts Create Borders and Boundaries
1st Edition
By Eleonora Di Molfetta
August 29, 2025
How does justice for non-citizens look like? This book provides a nuanced cross-section of how criminal courts deliver justice to non-citizens, investigating rationales and purposes of penal power directed at foreign defendants. It examines how lack of citizenship alters the contours of justice, ...
The Refugee Abyss
1st Edition
By Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes
August 22, 2025
In defiance of the refugee abyss, this book presents the flesh of pained bodies and the breath of displaced voices, contributing to the thread of traces yet to be forged and the politics yet to emerge, in a world where Relation takes precedence. The book unfolds in several traces. First, open ...
Social Harm at the Border: The Case of Lampedusa
1st Edition
By Francesca Soliman
April 14, 2025
This book offers a zemiological approach for understanding border control practices, state power, and their social impact. Drawing on an ethnographic study on the borderisation of the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, it explores border harms from the perspective of the non-migrant community. ...
The Mobility Control Apparatus: Getting to the Core of Crimmigration in the Schengen Area
1st Edition
By Maartje van der Woude
March 28, 2025
This book critically explores the complexities of intra-Schengen border control and migration dynamics within Europe. It provides a comprehensive analysis of how various actors, including border officials and state apparatuses, interact in managing mobility and enforcing controls. The theoretical ...
Ambivalent Humanitarianism and Migration Control: Colonial legacies and the Experiences of Migrants in Mexico
1st Edition
By Erika Herrera Rosales
February 25, 2025
Ambivalent Humanitarianism and Migration Control explores the complex relationship between migrants and local aid organisations. These organisations have become indisputably relevant and highly regarded as allies to Northern Central American migrants trying to reach the United States. Thus, this ...
Border Criminologies from the Periphery: Cross-national Conversations on Bordered Penality
1st Edition
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By José A. Brandariz, Giulia Fabini, Cristina Fernández-Bessa, Valeria Ferraris
February 04, 2025
This book contributes to and broadens the field of Border Criminology, by bringing together a collection of chapters from leading scholars engaged in cross-national and comparative conversations on bordered penality and crimmigration practices, with a specific focus on research conducted in places ...
The Borders of Violence: Temporary Migration and Domestic and Family Violence
1st Edition
By Marie Segrave, Stefani Vasil
October 11, 2024
This book explores the structural harm of borders and non-citizenship, specifically temporary non-citizenship, in the perpetuation of domestic and family violence (DFV). It focuses on the stories and situations of over 300 women in Australia. The analysis foregrounds how the state and the migration...
Gendered Labour, Everyday Security and Migration: An Examination of Domestic Work and Domestic Workers’ Experiences in Singapore and Hong Kong
1st Edition
By Shih Joo Tan
October 07, 2024
Drawing on original empirical research from Singapore and Hong Kong, Gendered Labour, Everyday Security and Migration interrogates women migrant domestic workers’ experiences of work and workplace exploitation. It examines the ways in which these women negotiate everyday security and safe work ...
Policing Mobility Regimes: Frontex and the Production of the European Borderscape
1st Edition
By Giuseppe Campesi
September 25, 2023
More than 30 years after its birth, the Schengen area of free movement is under siege in Europe: new barriers are being erected along land borders, military assets are increasingly deployed to patrol the Mediterranean, while sophisticated surveillance tools are used to keep track of the flows ...
Dignity, Women, and Immigration Detention
1st Edition
By Alice Gerlach
December 30, 2022
This book explores the experience of immigration enforcement for women who have been detained in immigration detention in the UK. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with women who have been in immigration detention centres, Dignity, Women, and Immigration Detention demonstrates how immigration ...