Dorina Damsa
Biographic Data
| ID | 332006 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dorina Damsa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dorina |
| FAMILY NAME | Damsa |
| SIGNATURE | DAMSA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0751-7435 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
States of Un/Knowing
Migration governance in Europe is continuously shaped by various rationalities and actors, including those from state, supra/international, civil society and academic institutions. This article contributes to the epistemologies and methodologies of knowledge and nonknowledge by bringing focus to the fluid, that is, the co-constitutive, relational and contextual dimensions of non/knowledge production. It interrogates how specific governance strate…
The Constitution and Contestability of Borders
This article introduces the special issue on the constitution and contestability of borders. Reflecting the processual turn in critical border studies, Yuval-Davis, Wemyss, and Cassidy (2019, 5) describe bordering as the set of practices and techniques that generate the forms of difference that enable distinctions between political subjects. Drawing on the concept of the borderscape, this special issue contributes to research within the field of …
Without Papers I Can't Do Anything
Intersectionality scholarship has yet to systematically recognize the importance of citizenship status for the mutual shaping of inequalities. In this article, we bring attention to the combined structuring force of criminal law and citizenship status (and the related concepts of 'illegal' or 'irregular' status) in intersecting with other categories of social disadvantage, such as those created by racialization, class, gender and ethnicity. Drawi…
All-foreign prisons in the United States, England and Wales, and Norway
Norway, England and Wales, and the USA are among a small number of affluent Western countries to establish ‘all-foreign’ prisons in response to public concerns about the growing threat of foreign-national prisoners. Drawing on collaborative analysis of empirical data collected at all-foreign prisons in these three countries, this article traces the conditions in which all-foreign prisons emerged, the position and function of all-foreign prisons i…
This is not what I signed up for’ – Danish prison officers’ attitudes towards more punitive penal policies
A humane approach to punishment has been integral to the work of the Danish Prisons and Probation Service. However, Danish penal policy has recently taken a punitive turn. What happens when punitive policies are adopted by a penal regime built on a humane approach to punishment? To address this question, this article focuses on prison officers at Vestre prison and how they adapt to punitive political decisions and prison policies. The increased f…
The Pains of Crimmigration Imprisonment
In the second part of his article on Scandinavian exceptionalism, John Pratt identified certain developments that might undermine the exceptional status of Scandinavian prisons and penal culture. A major problem looming on the horizon, according to Pratt, was the effects of globalization on Scandinavian societies. Since then, scholars have claimed that a bifurcation is emerging in the Norwegian correctional system, with humane and inclusive punis…
A Difference That Makes a Difference? Reflexivity and Researcher Effects in an All-Foreign Prison
Today, researchers are expected to spend considerable energy describing and discussing their own social positions and personas in the field for at least two reasons: First, researchers always observe the field from a specific point of view. Their perspective is structured by their own social position and biography and is thus unique. Second, the people in the field react differently to the presence of different researchers. The field persona of t…
The Pains of Crimmigration Imprisonment
In the second part of his article on Scandinavian exceptionalism, John Pratt identified certain developments that might undermine the exceptional status of Scandinavian prisons and penal culture. A major problem looming on the horizon, according to Pratt, was the effects of globalization on Scandinavian societies. Since then, scholars have claimed that a bifurcation is emerging in the Norwegian correctional system, with humane and inclusive punis…
A Difference That Makes a Difference? Reflexivity and Researcher Effects in an All-Foreign Prison
Today, researchers are expected to spend considerable energy describing and discussing their own social positions and personas in the field for at least two reasons: First, researchers always observe the field from a specific point of view. Their perspective is structured by their own social position and biography and is thus unique. Second, the people in the field react differently to the presence of different researchers. The field persona of t…
Without Papers I Can't Do Anything
Intersectionality scholarship has yet to systematically recognize the importance of citizenship status for the mutual shaping of inequalities. In this article, we bring attention to the combined structuring force of criminal law and citizenship status (and the related concepts of 'illegal' or 'irregular' status) in intersecting with other categories of social disadvantage, such as those created by racialization, class, gender and ethnicity. Drawi…
All-foreign prisons in the United States, England and Wales, and Norway
Norway, England and Wales, and the USA are among a small number of affluent Western countries to establish ‘all-foreign’ prisons in response to public concerns about the growing threat of foreign-national prisoners. Drawing on collaborative analysis of empirical data collected at all-foreign prisons in these three countries, this article traces the conditions in which all-foreign prisons emerged, the position and function of all-foreign prisons i…
States of Un/Knowing
Migration governance in Europe is continuously shaped by various rationalities and actors, including those from state, supra/international, civil society and academic institutions. This article contributes to the epistemologies and methodologies of knowledge and nonknowledge by bringing focus to the fluid, that is, the co-constitutive, relational and contextual dimensions of non/knowledge production. It interrogates how specific governance strate…
This is not what I signed up for’ – Danish prison officers’ attitudes towards more punitive penal policies
A humane approach to punishment has been integral to the work of the Danish Prisons and Probation Service. However, Danish penal policy has recently taken a punitive turn. What happens when punitive policies are adopted by a penal regime built on a humane approach to punishment? To address this question, this article focuses on prison officers at Vestre prison and how they adapt to punitive political decisions and prison policies. The increased f…
A Difference That Makes a Difference? Reflexivity and Researcher Effects in an All-Foreign Prison
Today, researchers are expected to spend considerable energy describing and discussing their own social positions and personas in the field for at least two reasons: First, researchers always observe the field from a specific point of view. Their perspective is structured by their own social position and biography and is thus unique. Second, the people in the field react differently to the presence of different researchers. The field persona of t…
The Pains of Crimmigration Imprisonment
In the second part of his article on Scandinavian exceptionalism, John Pratt identified certain developments that might undermine the exceptional status of Scandinavian prisons and penal culture. A major problem looming on the horizon, according to Pratt, was the effects of globalization on Scandinavian societies. Since then, scholars have claimed that a bifurcation is emerging in the Norwegian correctional system, with humane and inclusive punis…
This is not what I signed up for’ – Danish prison officers’ attitudes towards more punitive penal policies
A humane approach to punishment has been integral to the work of the Danish Prisons and Probation Service. However, Danish penal policy has recently taken a punitive turn. What happens when punitive policies are adopted by a penal regime built on a humane approach to punishment? To address this question, this article focuses on prison officers at Vestre prison and how they adapt to punitive political decisions and prison policies. The increased f…
All-foreign prisons in the United States, England and Wales, and Norway
Norway, England and Wales, and the USA are among a small number of affluent Western countries to establish ‘all-foreign’ prisons in response to public concerns about the growing threat of foreign-national prisoners. Drawing on collaborative analysis of empirical data collected at all-foreign prisons in these three countries, this article traces the conditions in which all-foreign prisons emerged, the position and function of all-foreign prisons i…
Without Papers I Can't Do Anything
Intersectionality scholarship has yet to systematically recognize the importance of citizenship status for the mutual shaping of inequalities. In this article, we bring attention to the combined structuring force of criminal law and citizenship status (and the related concepts of 'illegal' or 'irregular' status) in intersecting with other categories of social disadvantage, such as those created by racialization, class, gender and ethnicity. Drawi…
States of Un/Knowing
Migration governance in Europe is continuously shaped by various rationalities and actors, including those from state, supra/international, civil society and academic institutions. This article contributes to the epistemologies and methodologies of knowledge and nonknowledge by bringing focus to the fluid, that is, the co-constitutive, relational and contextual dimensions of non/knowledge production. It interrogates how specific governance strate…
The Constitution and Contestability of Borders
This article introduces the special issue on the constitution and contestability of borders. Reflecting the processual turn in critical border studies, Yuval-Davis, Wemyss, and Cassidy (2019, 5) describe bordering as the set of practices and techniques that generate the forms of difference that enable distinctions between political subjects. Drawing on the concept of the borderscape, this special issue contributes to research within the field of …
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 works) · Prison (3 works) · Constitution (2 works)