Dr. Monish Bhatia is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of York. He is a criminologist who researches the intersection of racism, migration, state violence, surveillance and crimmigration. He has published several articles and book chapters, and is the co- editor of numerous books and issues including Media, Crime and Racism (Palgrave, 2018), Racism, Violence and Harm: Ideology, Media and Resistance (Palgrave, 2023), Critical Engagements with Borders, Racisms and State Violence (Critical Criminology, 2020), Migration, Vulnerability and Violence (International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2020) and Race, Mental Health and State Violence (Race & Class, 2021). In 2022, Monish received the British Criminology Society's Hate Crime Network award for his article in Critical Criminology Permission to be Cruel: Street Level Bureaucrats and Harms against People Seeking Asylum