Erika Herrera Rosales

Headline - Larne immigration centre: MLAs call for end to detention of pregnant women - Campaign letter has been signed by over 300 individuals including nine MPS and 35 local councillors

Our International Women’s Day 2026 Statement. We reiterate that no form of feminism is compatible with tolerance of immigration detention. In Larne House immigration detention centre, marginalised genders are incarcerated, degraded and harmed.

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Ambivalent Humanitarianism and Migration Control: Colonial legacies and the Experiences of Migrants in Mexico Ambivalent Humanitarianism and Migration Control explores the complex relationship between migrants and local aid organisations. These organisations have become indisputably relevant and highly regard...

Also, you can read a preview of my book here: www.routledge.com/Ambivalent-H...

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Beyond grateful for this brilliant book review by the awesome Bel @belrawson.bsky.social 💫

It also coincides with the first year of my book "Ambivalent Humanitarianism and Migration Control" being published 🎂

➡️You can find the book review here:
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Ambivalent Humanitarianism and Migration Control: Colonial legacies and the Experiences of Migrants in Mexico Ambivalent Humanitarianism and Migration Control explores the complex relationship between migrants and local aid organisations. These organisations have become indisputably relevant and highly regard...

You can find the book review through this link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📚 Also, you can read a preview of the book here: www.routledge.com/Ambivalent-H...

Mood.

ICE's Alternatives to Detention programme is said to be "more humane" – but for Juliana and her children, it means living under constant pressure.

Read the new blog post by @gesanchez.bsky.social and Juliana R. S. ⤵️

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Know any undergrads thinking of postgrad studies? Please send them this widening access scheme. Maybe they could spend the summer working with us and @aviddetention.bsky.social

100 People Detained in UK Immigration Removal Centres Say They Are Subjected to Extreme Physical and Emotional Abuse Individuals detained at two detention centres report experiencing physical, psychological and emotional abuse at the hands of officers

🚨100 people held under UK-France scheme report abuse:

"Healthcare is inadequate, legal representation is denied, families are isolated, and basic human rights are violated. People are mentally deteriorating due to constant fear, harassment, Our lives are at risk"
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Confinement Beyond Immigrant Detention Immigration detention is a central deterrence policy in Mexico: between January and August 2024 alone, almost one million undocumented migrants were detained by government authorities. As a result of ...

🪩I’m very grateful to my co-author Alethia Fernández,
to all the editors of “The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South”.

👉You can find the book chapter through SpringerLink (living edition): link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

I’m thrilled to see this book chapter out! 📯

In “Confinement Beyond Immigrant Detention” we wrote about the continuum of punitive and coercive environments for immigrants in Mexico that are not restrictive to detention centres.

📣Call for applications: Dialogues on Mobility, Surveillance & Resistance JAN 26–30, 26 Tijuana, Mexico
Organized by International Migration Institute & University of Amsterdam's Decolonial Futures Research Priority Area.
Apply by SEP 25. Funding available! www.migrationinstitute.org/imi-archive/...

We are very happy to support your research!

It’s been a while since I last visited the US-Mexico border for ethnographic work, but I’m looking forward to being back this time in Juaritos.

I’m excited to start fieldwork next week in Ciudad Juárez! 🌳 As part of my postdoc research project, I’ll be looking further into the intersections of gendered violence, bordering practices and government institutions. I'm grateful to @slaslatam.bsky.social for awarding me this research grant.

I've signed up for the launch. Have you? "This book challenges the assumptions surrounding migrant shelters as benevolent, protective spaces, and raises concerns over their role amid #migration enforcement in the hemisphere. An important, urgent text." #criminology www.routledge.com/Ambivalent-H...

Book Launch - Ambivalent humanitarianism and migration control: colonial legacies and the experiences of migrants in Mexico Book Launch

www.migration.ox.ac.uk/event/book-l...

📚Next week, I’ll have the pleasure of discussing my book with @javierpsandoval.bsky.social, Abril Ríos Rivera
and Soledad Álvarez at @compasoxford.bsky.social

Join us to talk about the US-Mexican border, humanitarianism and colonialism ✨

⏰ 20th June, 2:00 -3:30 pm (via zoom) register below ⤵️