ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how criminological interest in migration and crime has been taken up by critical scholars within an emerging part of the discipline known as 'the criminology of mobility'. In answering the question it identifies three interdependent lines of scholarly inquiry: criminological concern with identity; scholarship on mobility and the border; research around the global migration control industry. The chapter traces the mobility in criminology over the past decades, considering how this early work approached the study of migration and the shifting categories of migrant, citizen, non-citizen in order to understand the recent turn to mobility. It then examines how the border has come to be central in criminological work concerned with mobility. By drawing attention to the legal and criminological challenges posed by 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.
