Francesca Esposito

Francesca is a Researcher at the Department of Psychology "Renzo Canestrari", University of Bologna and a Research Associate at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. Her doctoral research was an in-depth critical ethnographic study of immigration detention in Italy and Portugal. Between 2019 and 2021, she was a British Academy Newton International Fellow at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, where she led a transnational research project on gender, violence, and immigration detention. With over fifteen years of experience working alongside survivors of intimate and state violence, Francesca's current work explores carceral border violence through an intersectional and abolitionist lens, with a particular focus on the care-control nexus and health-related struggles and mobilisations. With Annika Lindberg and Teresa Degenhardt, she recently co-edited the volume "Detention and Deportation in Europe: Analyses, Contestations and Radical Visions in the Aftermath of COVID-19", published by Bristol University Press.