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Bi-annual conferences, workshops, and symposia where CINETS researchers examine crimmigration governance, share fieldwork, and convene with practitioners.

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Upcoming

2026Jul

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.
2026Apr

Leiden research seminar: crimmigration field methods

A closed workshop for network members on ethnographic and legal-empirical methods in border enforcement research.

Past events

2024Jun

Border Criminologies summer workshop

Two-day workshop on comparative penal border regimes with early-career researchers from across the network.
2024Mar

Crimmigration Through Time, Space, and Culture

The sixth CINETS conference considered crimmigration across time, space, culture, region and discipline.
2023Nov

Digital borders symposium

Virtual symposium on AI, biometric surveillance, and algorithmic decision-making in migration control.
2022Mar

Policy briefing: externalisation and accountability

Public webinar summarising CINETS policy briefs on EU externalisation agreements and human rights oversight gaps.
2021Sep

Global Borderlands: Getting to the Core of Crimmigration

The 2021 online and hybrid gathering from Leiden followed the planned 2020 Portland cycle and explored global borderlands.
2018Oct

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.
2016Oct

Crimmigration in the Shadow of Sovereignty

The third CINETS conference was hosted at the University of Maryland, College Park.
2014Oct

The Borders of Crimmigration

The second CINETS conference examined actual, legal, social, internal and external borders in crimmigration studies.
2012Jan

I CINETS Conference

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