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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 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
The seventh bi-annual CINETS conference will explore crimmigration in an age of authoritarian drift, hosted in Leiden with Border Criminologies.
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 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 now available
Recordings and materials from the fifth CINETS conference — held online during the pandemic — remain available in the conference archive.
Past events
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.
Border Criminologies – Crimmigration Law Talks: Crimmigration and (Critical) Legal Theory
A Border Criminologies roundtable on crimmigration and critical legal theory across comparative perspectives.
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 – 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.
Crimmigration Through Time, Space, and Culture
The sixth CINETS conference broadened the study of crimmigration across time, space, culture, region and discipline.
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.
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.
Crimmigration in the Shadow of Sovereignty
The third CINETS conference was hosted at the University of Maryland, College Park.
The Borders of Crimmigration
The second CINETS conference examined actual, legal, social, internal and external borders in crimmigration studies.
I CINETS Conference
The first international CINETS conference convened the newly founded network at the University of Coimbra.
Recent publications
The Mobility Control Apparatus. Getting to the Core of Crimmigration in the Schengen Area.
Maartje van der Woude
Outsourcing Crimmigration Control. Digital Borders, the IOM, and Biometric Statehood
Samuel Singler
Crimmigration under International Protection. Constructing Criminal Law as Governmentality
Rotem Rosenberg-Rubins
Crimmigrant Nations. Resurgent Nationalism and the Closing of Borders
Robert Koulish, Maartje van der Woude
Immigration Detention, Risk and Human Rights. Studies on Immigration and Crime
Maria João Guia, Robert Koulish, Valsamis Mitsilegas
