Hallam Tuck
Lecturer in Criminology, City St George’s University of London. Border criminology, migration, punishment, incarceration.
- Our special issue on the constitution and contestability of borders is out now in Geopolitics! @nikostrand.bsky.social @dorinadamsa.bsky.social Read here: Geopolitics: Vol 30, No 5 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fgeo20/3...
- Reposted by Hallam TuckWe're close to reaching a chilling moment; the first time in history where the single largest group of people arrested by ICE in the interior and held in detention are people with no criminal record. The gap is now down to fewer than 300 people.
- ICE just released updated detention statistics. 58,766 in ICE detention facilities as of September 7, 2025. www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
- Reposted by Hallam TuckThis video shows how much support there was for the motion - almost unanimous!
- Reposted by Hallam TuckYesterday the President (Michele Burman) and Executive Board of the European Society of Criminology brought the society into disrepute by refusing to allow a vote on collaboration with Israeli academic institutions complicit in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Statement by Criminologists for Palestine:
- Reposted by Hallam TuckOur new report (led by @vickytaylor.bsky.social) provides a critical update on the UK government’s continued prosecution and imprisonment of people seeking safety—including refugees, trafficking survivors, and children—simply for arriving by ‘small boat’: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...
- Reposted by Hallam TuckI just got round to watching Samuel Storey's film on the use of AI technology to prevent and criminalise migration in the Channel. It's super well-researched, well-made and deeply troubling. I highly recommend watching it. migrantsrights.org.uk/projects/hos...
- Reposted by Hallam Tuckon point meme by Abhiram Krishna.
- I am very proud to have edited this paper by my dear friends @dorinadamsa.bsky.social @nikostrand.bsky.social, which is part of our soon-to-be published special issue!
- [Members' News] New publication by @dorinadamsa.bsky.social & @nikostrand.bsky.social on the epistemologies & methodologies of non/knowledge production in deportation from Europe, focusing on its fluid, i.e., co-constitutive, relational & contextual dimensions: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Hallam TuckThe step-up in anti-migrant rhetoric from the government is shameful and dangerous. Migrants are our neighbours, friends and family. To suggest that Britain risks becoming “an island of strangers” because of immigration mimics the scaremongering of the far-right.
- Reposted by Hallam Tuckworth reading as we look forward to ever more 'control'... and speeded up returns blah blah blah
- [New Blog 🖋️] What does a "safe return" really mean? Prof. Lisa Marie Borrelli shows how local Jordanian NGOs working with Syrian refugees push back on EU and INGO narratives, warning that conditions in Syria remain far from safe - despite political pressure to repatriate: buff.ly/9X3k7hN
- Reposted by Hallam TuckRemarkable from WaPo poll: Trump sinking fast on immigration among independents. 56% disapprove of handling of issue 62% oppose removing foreign students 52% oppose renditions to El Salvador Only 21% want Abrego Garcia left there Engage, Dems. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1944...
- Reposted by Hallam TuckSolar panels, heat pumps, & "about 600 jobs have been created" #CarceralLabour
- Reposted by Hallam TuckNEW: As the Trump administration ramps up arrests and heavily limits releases on bond, conditions at ICE’s Krome detention facility in Miami have deteriorated into that of a third world prison, with people forced to sleep on concrete floors jammed in like sardines in appalling conditions.
- Reposted by Hallam TuckRead @aviddetention.bsky.social's review of @mfbosworth.bsky.social's Supply Chain Justice: "[I]t is people who are the 'product' — people who arrive or stay in the UK and are subject to detention, people who are sorted, managed, moved, and monetised." www.aviddetention.org.uk/article/refl...
- Reposted by Hallam Tuck'Balancing the books' on the backs of poor and disabled people was wrong when the Tories did it, and it would be wrong now. It’s a political choice - one that could push 700,000 households into poverty. Our government should instead tax the ballooning wealth of the super-rich.
- Reposted by Hallam TuckI spoke to the Today Programme this morning about why cuts to disabilty benefits are a political choice - and the wrong one.
- Reposted by Hallam TuckThe Border Security Bill seeks to further criminalise people seeking safety in the UK Read about the current situation where people are imprisoned for crossing the Channel, & concerns about the new Bill here: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi... @bordercrim.bsky.social @captainsupportuk.bsky.social
- Reposted by Hallam Tuck"the mass detention and deportation plans advanced by President-elect Trump rely, in part, on utilizing the beds available in local jails, supplemented by temporary and private facilities, to detain many more immigrants." www.vera.org/news/jailing...
- US Crim/imm folks - can anyone point me to a detailed analysis of the Laken Riley Act? E.g. INA 236(c) already mandates detention of those who commit specific offenses. Aside from obvious net widening, how would the mandatory detention provision of the LRA change this?
- Reposted by Hallam TuckPrivate prisons are rejoicing at the prospect of S5 being signed into law. S5 would target thousands more people into a deadly immigration detention system. Before it reaches Trump’s desk, the House will vote today or Thursday. 🚨TAKE ACTION: actionnetwork.org/letters/no-t...
- This week, S.5 passed the Senate floor with 64 votes in favor (including 12 votes from Democrats). In this op-ed in @thehill.com Anthony Enriquez with @rfkhumanrights.bsky.social it’s clear who the true beneficiaries of this law will be: private prison companies. thehill.com/opinion/immi...
- Reposted by Hallam TuckAs Congress continues to debate the Laken Riley Act, which Senator Britt inaccurately says makes relatively modest changes to law, ICE itself is telling Congress that the bill would cost over $25 billion and would be "impossible to execute."
- Reposted by Hallam TuckLetitia James comes out in opposition to the Laken Riley Act, joining a growing number of law enforcement officials who have raised the alarm about the way the bill undermines due process protections and threatens to divert resources away from more serious offenses. www.amny.com/news/ag-leti...
- Reposted by Hallam TuckThe same dudes who fetishize the supposed lost strength and competence of their forefathers want computers to write their emails for them.
- Reposted by Hallam TuckBorder Criminologies, in partnership with the Greek Council for Refugees, has published a report on access to justice for refugees in Greece, based on research conducted by researcher and lawyer Vivi Paschalidou. Read our full report here: buff.ly/3BUOmm4
- Reposted by Hallam TuckI am hoping to hear more from the methodologists on this (@juliagelatt.bsky.social help) but here’s a thread on why I’m not taking the NYT “more immigration than Ellis Island era” finding as gospel until I know more about its non-traditional data sources.
- Reposted by Hallam TuckPlease share: each year Border Crim runs a master's dissertation prize. Our call opened last month and will stay open until March. All info here: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...
- Reposted by Hallam TuckWhat if the majority of people denied asylum in the United States are: a) Telling the truth, b) In real danger of persecution, and yet c) Still denied asylum on legal technicalities? That's the bombshell finding of a landmark new study. bclawreview.bc.edu/articles/317...
- Reposted by Hallam Tuckbeen sayin
- The data below show that linear metaphors don’t work when it comes to militarism. Violence abroad always circles back. Comparing US troop levels in Iraq to US combat gear sent to police: www.stephensemler.com/p/will-weapo...
- Reposted by Hallam TuckThe most basic way to check whether immigrants "bring crime" is to ask whether the share of the population that is foreign-born correlates in any way with the crime rate (it doesn't). This is such a simple analytical method that it was used all the way back in 1912! www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2...
- @dorinadamsa.bsky.social and I have a chapter in the new border crim handbook. We examine the history of the idea of segregating prisons according to citizenship, and try to make sense of the ways that this kind policy has made the prison into a site of nation-building.
