Panel: Gendered-Racist Regimes of Detention and Deportation

The aim of this international seminar series is to create a critical forum for academic researchers, students, artists, campaigners and activists, and members of the public, to increase awareness and foster meaningful conversations regarding racisms, oppression, violence and injustice globally.

Speaker information

Dr Dorina Damsa is a researcher at the Institute for Social Research, Oslo.

Dorina achieved doctorate from the University of Oslo. Her research investigated the treatment of non-citizen women in the Nordic region. And more specifically the issues of bordered punishment, deportation, precarization, and practices of citizenship.

She has published in international journals such as Sociology, Punishment and Society, and the International Journal of Qualitative Methods. Her recent/publications can be found here

Dr Francesca Esposito completed her PhD in community psychology at the ISPA-University Institute of Lisbon.

Immediately after, she was granted a British Academy Newton International Fellowship at the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford. Dr Esposito is currently a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Westminster.

Her research focuses on immigration detention in Italy, Portugal and the UK, and, in particular, on the gendered and racialized experiences of women confined inside detention sites. Based on her work, she authored a number of blog posts and papers in international books/journals.

Francesca is also a member of the feminist NGO BeFree (Rome, Italy), and she worked several years as an advocate for women survivors of gendered violence, including migrant women confined inside Rome’s migration-related detention centre.