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Upcoming conferences

Summer School 2027: Studying Forced Migration in Latin America and the Caribbean — Interdisciplinary Research Methodologies

An interdisciplinary summer school on forced migration research methodologies in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Jun 22, 2027 – Jun 25, 2027

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Final program preview for CINETS 2026

Final program preview coming end of March

The organising committee is finalising panels across comparative case studies, empirical research, and arts-based methodologies.

Registration open for CINETS 2026 attendees

Registration open for non-presenting attendees

While abstract submission has closed, researchers may register to attend CINETS 2026 as non-presenting participants.

CINETS 2026 conference announced at Leiden Law School

CINETS 2026 conference announced at Leiden Law School

The seventh bi-annual CINETS conference will explore crimmigration in an age of authoritarian drift, hosted in Leiden with Border Criminologies.

CINETS 2026 conference announcement

CINETS 2026 conference announced at Leiden Law School

The seventh bi-annual CINETS conference will explore crimmigration in an age of authoritarian drift, hosted in Leiden with Border Criminologies.

Policy brief on authoritarian drift and crimmigration

Policy brief published on authoritarian drift and crimmigration

A new CINETS policy brief frames the 2026 conference theme, linking democratic erosion with punitive migration control.

CINETS 2024 conference recap from Portland

CINETS 2024 conference closes in Portland

The sixth bi-annual conference at Lewis & Clark Law School renewed the network’s commitment to cross-global comparison on detention, deportation, and border violence.

Global Borderlands conference archive

Global Borderlands conference archive now available

Recordings and materials from the fifth CINETS conference — held online during the pandemic — remain available in the conference archive.

Past events

Kamerlingh Onnes Building, Leiden Law School

CINETS 2026: Crimmigration in an Age of Authoritarian Drift

The seventh bi-annual CINETS conference explores punitive migration control amid democratic erosion and far-right populism.

Jul 6, 2026 – Jul 8, 2026

Border Criminologies webinar on crimmigration and critical legal theory

Border Criminologies – Crimmigration Law Talks: Crimmigration and (Critical) Legal Theory

A Border Criminologies roundtable on crimmigration and critical legal theory across comparative perspectives.

Recent publications

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Cover of The Mobility Control Apparatus. Getting to the Core of Crimmigration in the Schengen Area.

The Mobility Control Apparatus. Getting to the Core of Crimmigration in the Schengen Area.

Maartje van der Woude

Cover of Outsourcing Crimmigration Control. Digital Borders, the IOM, and Biometric Statehood

Outsourcing Crimmigration Control. Digital Borders, the IOM, and Biometric Statehood

Border Criminologies webinar on immigration activism and solidarity

Border Criminologies – Crimmigration Law Talks: Criminalizing Immigration Activism and Crimes of Solidarity

A Border Criminologies webinar on criminalizing practices, dissuasion, and challenges faced by migration activists.

Border Criminologies webinar on legal mobilization and crimmigration law

Border Criminologies – Crimmigration Law Talks: Legal Mobilization, Cause Lawyering, and Crimmigration Law

A Border Criminologies webinar on human rights, litigation, and strategic advocacy in refugee and migration contexts.

Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon

Crimmigration Through Time, Space, and Culture

The sixth CINETS conference broadened the study of crimmigration across time, space, culture, region and discipline.

Mar 1, 2024 – Mar 2, 2024

Kamerlingh Onnes Building, Leiden University

Global Borderlands: Getting to the Core of Crimmigration

The 2021 online and hybrid gathering from Leiden followed the postponed 2020 Portland cycle and explored global borderlands.

Sep 16, 2021 – Sep 18, 2021

Queen Mary University of London, Mile End campus

Mobility and Security in an Era of Globalisation: Crimmigration at a Crossroads?

The fourth CINETS conference examined mobility, security, hostile environment trends, detention and securitised border governance.

Oct 5, 2018 – Oct 6, 2018

McKeldin Library, University of Maryland, College Park

Crimmigration in the Shadow of Sovereignty

The third CINETS conference was hosted at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Oct 6, 2016 – Oct 8, 2016

Academiegebouw, Leiden University

The Borders of Crimmigration

The second CINETS conference examined actual, legal, social, internal and external borders in crimmigration studies.

Oct 9, 2014 – Oct 10, 2014

Biblioteca Joanina exterior, University of Coimbra, Portugal

I CINETS Conference

The first international CINETS conference convened the newly founded network at the University of Coimbra.

Cover of Crimmigration under International Protection. Constructing Criminal Law as Governmentality

Crimmigration under International Protection. Constructing Criminal Law as Governmentality

Rotem Rosenberg-Rubins

Cover of Crimmigrant Nations. Resurgent Nationalism and the Closing of Borders

Crimmigrant Nations. Resurgent Nationalism and the Closing of Borders

Robert Koulish, Maartje van der Woude

Cover of Immigration Detention, Risk and Human Rights. Studies on Immigration and Crime

Immigration Detention, Risk and Human Rights. Studies on Immigration and Crime

Maria João Guia, Robert Koulish, Valsamis Mitsilegas