Publications

Academic Articles

The Carceral Web: Transnational economies of immigration detention. Mainwaring, Ċ., Tyerman, T. & Dickson, A. 2026, Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space.

Essays

 Walls and Cages: A Transnational Blueprint for Rising Authoritarianism. Mainwaring, Ċ., Tyerman, T. & Dickson, A. J., 1 Nov 2025, Current History. 124, 865, p.289-294p.

Related Academic Articles

• Slow and spectacular violence: debilitation and onward mobility at the EU’s borders. Mainwaring, Ċ. & DeBono, D. 28 Jan 2026, In: Territory, Politics, Governance, p. 1–13. 
• Islands of Solidarity? Migration and Activism in Malta. Mainwaring, Ċ. & Stierl, M. 4 Jun 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Geopolitics. p. 1-26 26 p.
• 'Here there be monsters': Confronting the (post)coloniality of Britain’s borders. Tyerman, T. & Van Isacker, T., 29 Nov 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Review of International Studies. p. 1-21 21 p.
• Immigration Detention at Sea: Maritime migration governance in Australia and the sanctioning of indefinite detention for the purpose of removal. Dickson, A. J., 19 Jun 2024, In: Migration Politics. 3, 1, p. 1-21 21 p.
• Immigration detention: An Anglo model. Mainwaring, Ċ. & Cook, M. L., 1 Dec 2019, In: Migration Studies. 7, 4, p. 455-476 22 p.

• Detention-as-spectacle. Mainwaring, Ċ. & Silverman, S. J., 1 Mar 2017, In: International Political Sociology. 11, 1, p. 21-38 18 p.

   

Media Pieces

• Around the world, migrants are being deported at alarming rates – how did this become normalised? Dickson, A., Mainwaring, Ċ. & Tyerman, T., 2 Oct 2025, In: The Conversation.
• Trump’s extremist border policies are part of a global authoritarian moment. Dickson, A., Mainwaring, Ċ. & Tyerman, T., 19 Feb 2025, In: Al Jazeera.
• When the sea became a space of detention: Australia’s maritime migration governance. Dickson, A., 13 Sept 2024, In: Border Criminologies Blog.
• Don’t expect Labour to take progressive steps on immigration detention. Tyerman, T. & Ghandehari, S., 30 Aug 2024, In: Open Democracy.
• Labour offers little hope to migrants locked up without end date. Mainwaring, Ċ., 3 July 2024, In: Open Democracy.