On the 9^th and 10^th September 2020, CJC’s Ana Aliverti and Ioana Vrăbiescu hosted an international workshop on the policing of mobility to explore the new configuration of policing under conditions of globalization and mass migration. This workshop brought together established and early career academics conducting pioneering empirical fieldwork on the translocal and transnational nature of migration policing in Europe. Their data revealed various scales, structures and agreements of policing mobility in and between countries such as the UK, Italy, Romania, Poland, Germany, Finland, Denmark, The Netherlands and Norway.

Authors presented original material on their empirical projects examining how the policing of global mobility shapes the territorial boundaries, cultures and practices of controlling migration. A number of scholars have written about the emergence of “global policing” in its various guises. They have focused on the institutional, spatial and geographical, and political dimensions of the police problematizing the very “idea of the police” and reconsidering their urban, national and global scales and effects. The papers built on this literature to examine how migration policing illuminates our understanding of the local, national and global dynamics of everyday policing. The presented case studies addressed emergent state and non-state alliances at the operational and strategic levels propelled by the impetus to identify unwelcomed foreigners and send them back within and beyond Europe, and draw out the social, political and legal implications of these changes.