In his chapter, The incarseration of foreigners in European prisons, Thomas Ugelvik considers the increasing incarceration of foreigners in European Prisons and the impact on individuals, prison regimes and home countries. The chapter is at the intersection of migrant offending and punishment and the use of criminal and penal powers in response to irregular migration. Within the context of global social change and in particular relations between western European penal systems (with larger and growing foreign popullations), Ugelvik highlights the challenges of this changing imprisonment profile and an increasing reliance on (and frustration with) deportation.
Katja Franko Aas is a co-writer on the final chapter, The criminology of mobility, together with Sharon Pickering and Mary Bosworth. They argue that by drawing attention to the legal and criminological challenges posed bu the increasing criminalization of immigration and the securitization of the border, the criminology of mobility demonstrates that mobility and its control are matters central to any understanding of the criminal justice system and the international state system.