Francesca Esposito
Francesca completed her PhD in Community Psychology at ISPA-Instituto Universitário (Portugal) in 2019, and subsequently became a British Academy Newton International Fellow at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford (UK). Her research focuses on migration-related detention in Italy, Portugal, and Britain, with a particular emphasis on the intersectional experiences of women confined in detention sites and their strategies of resistance. Francesca is an Associate Director at Border Criminologies (University of Oxford) and the President of the European Community Psychology Association (ECPA). She is also a member of various groups and collectives, including the feminist NGO BeFree (Rome, Italy), and has worked for several years with women survivors of gender-based violence, including illegalised migrant women who are detained.
Key-words: immigration detention; border violence and resistance; intersectionality; gendered ecologies; abolition feminisms; community psychology.