Additional resources for understanding the Crossborder Region
There are many other resources, reports, and articles that are produced that provide information and analysis of what is happening and what has happened historically at the Belgium-France-UK border. Below is a non-exhaustive list of resources, which is updated semi-regularly. If you have suggested content for this page please contact us through the contact form.
Reports
[ENG] Charting new waters: A progressive policy response to the Channel crossings, IPPR, 2023
[ENG + FR + NE] Annual Report on Trafficking and Smuggling in Human Beings 2023, Myria, 2023
[ENG + FR] “We know who you are”: Hostile Migration Politics and the Criminalisation of Solidarity Actors in France and Morocco, Dr Maria Hagan and Dr Sebastien Bachelet, 2023
[ENG + FR] "On the border", Marta Lotto, 2022
[ENG + FR] "Investigation Report on 30 years of Creating the Deterrence Policy”, Pierre Bonnevalle, 2022
[ENG] Deadly crossings and the militarisation of Britain’s borders, IRR, 2020
Articles and blogs
[FR] Les tués de Calais, Maël Galisson, Les Jours, 2023
[ENG] Twenty years of Franco-British border agreements, Frances Timberlake, Free Movement, 2023
[ENG + FR] UK-French Border Mission 2022, Migreurop, 2022
[ENG] Where does Fortress Britain begin and end, Anya Edmond-Pettitt, IRR, 2021
[ENG] Mawda Shawri – When truth, justice and humanity are in short supply, Frances Timberlake, IRR, 2021
[ENG] Border Criminologies blog, University of Oxford
Other resources
[ENG +FR] HRO monthly observations on police eviction operations
[ENG] UK House of Commons Library research on UK-France collaboration on irregular migration
[ENG + FR] France-UK Border Research website
[ENG + FR] Transfrontier Operational Mission resource page on the UK-France border
Blog
Following CBF events or around policy and legal developments, we invite guest blogs for the CBF website.