Crimmigration and Border Control
Description
The thematic group is based around the emerging sub-discipline variously described as ‘border criminology’ or the ‘criminology of mobility’. It brings together members who undertake research on border control including the intersection of criminal and immigration law and practice, a development characterised by US legal scholar Juliet Stumpf as ‘crimmigration’.
Members of this thematic group are at the forefront of interdisciplinary efforts to understand the context for the expansion and implications of crimmigration and other forms of border control, and their impact on sovereignty, mobility, lived experience, and on long-standing criminal justice and immigration procedures and processes.
Aims and Objectives
The Crimmigration and Border Control Thematic Group aims to:
- Foster the exchange and deepening of ideas between scholars operating in Australia/New Zealand-Aotearoa and globally
- Form a cross-institutional research network that promotes communication, research collaboration, dissemination, mentoring and support
- Enhance the relevance and impact of existing and emerging research areas
- Ensure a rural, regional and remote focus is visible within research collaborations, networks
and events - Build and promote links between researchers and industry partners in the criminal justice and
immigration system - Provide a ‘crimmigration and border control’ stream within the ANZSOC conference program
- Maintain a presence on the ANZSOC website and through the Twitter Account @ANZSOC_Borders to act as a point of first contact for information about this research area
Convenor
Henrietta McNeill, Australian National University
Meg Randolph, Monash University
Lorena Rivas, Griffith University
Contact: anzsocborders@gmail.com
Membership List:
Last updated February 2026
- Kristen Anderson, Griffith
- Lucy Badman, Mitchelton State High School
- Simone Baran, Jurisprudence
- Jamal Barnes, Edith Cowan University
- Sally Bishop, University of the Sunshine Coast
- Ana Borges Jelinic, Disrupting Violence Beacon, Griffith
- Maxim Calvitto, LaTrobe University
- Lok Lee Cho, University of Hong Kong
- Holly Cooper, University of Tasmania
- Stanislava Cubra, Swinburne University of Technology
- Chloe Debarge, Edith Cowan University
- Jared Dmello, University of Adelaide
- Isabel Dunn, Monash University
- Dunya Elhayek, UNSW
- Ashley Elridge-Burton
- Ebony Franzi-Jones, Swinburne
- Maria Giannacopoulos, UNSW
- Florence Hafoka, Deakin
- Charlotte Hanson, University of Sydney
- Laura Johnstone, University of Canterbury
- Indya Jones, Griffith
- Louisa Jones, ACU
- Andy Kaladelfos, UNSW
- Marinella Marmo, Flinders University
- Amber McKinley, Centre for Customs and Excise
- Maria Min Jung, University of Auckland
- Veronika Munro, Victoria University of Wellington
- Ryan Neeliyanickal, University of Melbourne
- Alice Neikirk, University of Newcastle
- Lillian Penny, Sunshine Coast Council
- Scott Poynting, QUT
- Dimitri Razos, University of Melbourne
- Alexandra Ridgway, RMIT
- Marie Segrave, University of Melbourne
- Constance Skeffington, University of Sydney
- Evan Smith, Flinders University
- Jason Smith, Salvation Army
- Elizabeth Stanley, Victoria University of Wellington
- Victor Taumoepeau, University of Auckland
- Rebecca Tscheresch, Diabetes SA
- Joseph van Buuren, RMIT
- Laura Vidal, University of Wollongong
- Leanne Weber, University of Canberra
- Kaluarachchige Imasha Wijesinghe, UNSW
- Jane Wilson, Grifith
- Elizabeth Wisser, Elizabeth Wisser & Associates