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Hallam joined the Department as a Lecturer in Criminology in September 2023. Within the field of border criminology, his research interests lie at the intersections of punishment, migration control, citizenship, and race.
Hallam's doctoral research project examined how the growing integration of criminal justice and migration control has transformed the US Federal Prison system, focusing on a series of outsourced, all-foreign facilities called 'Criminal Alien Requirement' prisons. Drawing on the testimonies of incarcerated people, this work traces how prisons have become critical sites for the definition of national membership in racial terms.
Hallam's current research focuses on the political economy of immigration and border control. In the US, Hallam's research examines how municipal finances and local economies have shaped the expansion of the immigration detention system. His research in the UK focuses on the asylum accommodation system, examining how people seeking asylum, as well as local communities, respond to the challenges associated with this system. Hallam is currently leading a collaborative, knowledge exchange project with North London Citizens.
In addition to work in the field of border criminology, Hallam is interested in political ecology and green criminology. Together with Dr. Dorina Damsa (Institute for Social Research, Oslo) and Dr. Kathinka Fossum Evertsen (Institute for Social Research, Oslo) this work examines the production of knowledge related to the 'green transition', and how the tensions between resource extraction and conservation produce environmental harms.
Qualifications
- DPhil (PhD) in Criminology, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 2023
- MSc in Migration Studies, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 2018
- MA (Hons) in History, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 2015
Employment
- Lecturer in Criminology, City, University of London, United Kingdom, 2023 - present
- Associate Lecturer in Criminology, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom, October 2021 - August 2023
Publications
Publications by category
Chapters (3)
- Tuck, R.H. (2025). The Borders of the Prison. Oxford University PressOxford.
- Tuck, H. and Damsa, D. (2024). All-foreign prisons: sites of (colonial) nation-building. Handbook on Border Criminology (pp. 235-251). Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781035307975.
- Tuck, H. (2022). ‘Because we are Deportable People’. Privatising Border Control (pp. 133-152). Oxford University PressOxford. ISBN 0192857169.
Journal articles (3)
- Tuck, R.H., Ostrand, N.M. and Damsa, D. (2025). The Constitution and Contestability of Borders. Geopolitics, 30(5), pp. 1965-1977. doi:10.1080/14650045.2025.2548088
- Tuck, H. (2023). Borders and border walls: Insecurity, symbolism, vulnerabilities. NORDIC JOURNAL OF MIGRATION RESEARCH, 13(1)
- Tuck, R.H., Damsa, D. and Kullman, E. (2022). All-foreign prisons in the United States, England and Wales, and Norway: Related logics and local expressions. Theoretical Criminology, 26(4), pp. 557-579. doi:10.1177/13624806221116092