Giuseppe Campesi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4339133 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giuseppe Campesi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giuseppe |
| FAMILY NAME | Campesi |
| SIGNATURE | CAMPESI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bari Aldo Moro |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4825-6705 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
On the systemic violence of return policies
This article examines the execution of forced removals in Italy. Drawing on the analysis of original sources, it explores which factors affect the use of force during return operations and how that use is rationalized. Offering a unique empirical perspective, the article documents the operational strategies in an area of administrative action where use of force is notably intense. After a brief methodological introduction, the analysis focuses on…
Regulating mobility through detention
The aim of this article is to describe the evolution of immigration detention policies at the Southern European border. This will be done by presenting original data on the actual functioning of immigration detention in Italy in the wake of the so-called “refugee crisis”. By shedding light on these developments, the article reveals a notable convergence of first reception and return policies, which in turn is driving a transformation of the lands…
Policing Mobility Regimes
Geografia giuridica dei confini
By adopting the perspective of law and geography, this article explores the new morphology of borders and places a special emphasis on the role of law in redefining their spatiality. In particular, it identifies three main geostrategies along which the contemporary border regime is organized, namely, the geostrategy of nodes, zones and walls. In describing the new legal geography of borders, the article also highlights how the transformations and…
Policing Mobility Regimes
The Reinvention of Immigration Detention in Italy in the Aftermath of the “Refugee Crisis”
The aim of this article is to explore the peculiarity of Italian policies on immigration detention and their evolution over time. This will be done by highlighting the main factors that might explain the apparent political disinvestment in immigration detention in Italy, in particular in the years between 2013 and 2015, and account for the turnaround in approach announced and then implemented by the two Interior Ministers in charge between 2017 a…
Immigration Detention as Social Defence
Drawing on an empirical study, this article explores the role of immigration detention in Italy by analysing the way a specific rhetoric of ‘dangerousness’ has developed and is being used within the framework of immigration enforcement policies. Our argument is that immigration detention has been transformed into an instrument of crime prevention and ‘social defence’, and that this transformation is fuelled by the central position that the legal …
Genealogies of Immigration Detention
The aim of this article is to explore the ambiguous legal status of immigration detention by discussing the main theoretical perspectives on its nature and the functions it plays in contemporary migration policies. After presenting a typological and genealogical reconstruction of immigration detention, the article contends that it should not be seen as being related either to the politics of ‘exception’ or to the expanding reach of ‘penal’ power …
Between containment, confinement and dispersal
In this article, I will analyse how the Italian reception system has been transformed after the ‘refugee crisis’, showing how the change cannot be reduced to a mere expansion of the reception capacity. I will do this by tracing a genealogy of the Italian reception system and highlighting its main features before and after the ‘refugee crisis’. My hypothesis is that the ‘refugee crisis’ and the sense of emergency it created has stimulated the emer…
Seeking Asylum in Times of Crisis
This article analyses from a socio-legal point of view how the European Union Agenda on Migration is reshaping the Common European Asylum System by focusing on the impact it has had on the reform of the Italian reception system. After a preliminary examination of the European Union standards on reception, this article focuses on the European Union Agenda on Migration and shows that its main aim is to stimulate frontline Member States to reform th…
Hindering the deportation machine
The article explores the relationship between immigration detention and criminal justice by presenting the results of an ethnographic research that was carried out inside one of the main Italian pre-removal detention facilities. Challenging the idea that immigration detention centres are to be considered as legal black holes where migrants are reduced to ‘bare life’ and subjected to a form of absolute power, this article suggests that detained mi…
Governare il futuro. Materiali per una sociologia giuridica del rischio
The article explores the ways in which law has worked as a reservoir of theoretical categories to frame risk and as an institutional tool to govern it. It shows how this has affected modern liberal legal categories, giving rise to the emergence of a variety of legal security technologies whose main characteristics and functions are here discussed in detail. The evolution in these security technologies is analysed in relation with the changes that…
Tiago Pires Marques, Crime and the Fascist State, 1850–1940
Policing, urban poverty and insecurity in Latin America
This article explains how, in the late 20th century, Latin America went through a transition in social-control policy that followed and paralleled the area’s transition from a pervasively authoritarian polity to a democratic one bearing a strong neoliberal imprint. Social-control strategies initially designed to serve a national-security doctrine mainly directed against political opponents morphed into strategies for the repressive government of …
Seeking Asylum in Times of Crisis
This article analyses from a socio-legal point of view how the European Union Agenda on Migration is reshaping the Common European Asylum System by focusing on the impact it has had on the reform of the Italian reception system. After a preliminary examination of the European Union standards on reception, this article focuses on the European Union Agenda on Migration and shows that its main aim is to stimulate frontline Member States to reform th…
Hindering the deportation machine
The article explores the relationship between immigration detention and criminal justice by presenting the results of an ethnographic research that was carried out inside one of the main Italian pre-removal detention facilities. Challenging the idea that immigration detention centres are to be considered as legal black holes where migrants are reduced to ‘bare life’ and subjected to a form of absolute power, this article suggests that detained mi…
Between containment, confinement and dispersal
In this article, I will analyse how the Italian reception system has been transformed after the ‘refugee crisis’, showing how the change cannot be reduced to a mere expansion of the reception capacity. I will do this by tracing a genealogy of the Italian reception system and highlighting its main features before and after the ‘refugee crisis’. My hypothesis is that the ‘refugee crisis’ and the sense of emergency it created has stimulated the emer…
Genealogies of Immigration Detention
The aim of this article is to explore the ambiguous legal status of immigration detention by discussing the main theoretical perspectives on its nature and the functions it plays in contemporary migration policies. After presenting a typological and genealogical reconstruction of immigration detention, the article contends that it should not be seen as being related either to the politics of ‘exception’ or to the expanding reach of ‘penal’ power …
Immigration Detention as Social Defence
Drawing on an empirical study, this article explores the role of immigration detention in Italy by analysing the way a specific rhetoric of ‘dangerousness’ has developed and is being used within the framework of immigration enforcement policies. Our argument is that immigration detention has been transformed into an instrument of crime prevention and ‘social defence’, and that this transformation is fuelled by the central position that the legal …
Policing, urban poverty and insecurity in Latin America
This article explains how, in the late 20th century, Latin America went through a transition in social-control policy that followed and paralleled the area’s transition from a pervasively authoritarian polity to a democratic one bearing a strong neoliberal imprint. Social-control strategies initially designed to serve a national-security doctrine mainly directed against political opponents morphed into strategies for the repressive government of …
The Reinvention of Immigration Detention in Italy in the Aftermath of the “Refugee Crisis”
The aim of this article is to explore the peculiarity of Italian policies on immigration detention and their evolution over time. This will be done by highlighting the main factors that might explain the apparent political disinvestment in immigration detention in Italy, in particular in the years between 2013 and 2015, and account for the turnaround in approach announced and then implemented by the two Interior Ministers in charge between 2017 a…
Regulating mobility through detention
The aim of this article is to describe the evolution of immigration detention policies at the Southern European border. This will be done by presenting original data on the actual functioning of immigration detention in Italy in the wake of the so-called “refugee crisis”. By shedding light on these developments, the article reveals a notable convergence of first reception and return policies, which in turn is driving a transformation of the lands…
Governare il futuro. Materiali per una sociologia giuridica del rischio
The article explores the ways in which law has worked as a reservoir of theoretical categories to frame risk and as an institutional tool to govern it. It shows how this has affected modern liberal legal categories, giving rise to the emergence of a variety of legal security technologies whose main characteristics and functions are here discussed in detail. The evolution in these security technologies is analysed in relation with the changes that…
Policing, urban poverty and insecurity in Latin America
This article explains how, in the late 20th century, Latin America went through a transition in social-control policy that followed and paralleled the area’s transition from a pervasively authoritarian polity to a democratic one bearing a strong neoliberal imprint. Social-control strategies initially designed to serve a national-security doctrine mainly directed against political opponents morphed into strategies for the repressive government of …
Tiago Pires Marques, Crime and the Fascist State, 1850–1940
Hindering the deportation machine
The article explores the relationship between immigration detention and criminal justice by presenting the results of an ethnographic research that was carried out inside one of the main Italian pre-removal detention facilities. Challenging the idea that immigration detention centres are to be considered as legal black holes where migrants are reduced to ‘bare life’ and subjected to a form of absolute power, this article suggests that detained mi…
Governare il futuro. Materiali per una sociologia giuridica del rischio
The article explores the ways in which law has worked as a reservoir of theoretical categories to frame risk and as an institutional tool to govern it. It shows how this has affected modern liberal legal categories, giving rise to the emergence of a variety of legal security technologies whose main characteristics and functions are here discussed in detail. The evolution in these security technologies is analysed in relation with the changes that…
Seeking Asylum in Times of Crisis
This article analyses from a socio-legal point of view how the European Union Agenda on Migration is reshaping the Common European Asylum System by focusing on the impact it has had on the reform of the Italian reception system. After a preliminary examination of the European Union standards on reception, this article focuses on the European Union Agenda on Migration and shows that its main aim is to stimulate frontline Member States to reform th…
Between containment, confinement and dispersal
In this article, I will analyse how the Italian reception system has been transformed after the ‘refugee crisis’, showing how the change cannot be reduced to a mere expansion of the reception capacity. I will do this by tracing a genealogy of the Italian reception system and highlighting its main features before and after the ‘refugee crisis’. My hypothesis is that the ‘refugee crisis’ and the sense of emergency it created has stimulated the emer…
Immigration Detention as Social Defence
Drawing on an empirical study, this article explores the role of immigration detention in Italy by analysing the way a specific rhetoric of ‘dangerousness’ has developed and is being used within the framework of immigration enforcement policies. Our argument is that immigration detention has been transformed into an instrument of crime prevention and ‘social defence’, and that this transformation is fuelled by the central position that the legal …
Genealogies of Immigration Detention
The aim of this article is to explore the ambiguous legal status of immigration detention by discussing the main theoretical perspectives on its nature and the functions it plays in contemporary migration policies. After presenting a typological and genealogical reconstruction of immigration detention, the article contends that it should not be seen as being related either to the politics of ‘exception’ or to the expanding reach of ‘penal’ power …
The Reinvention of Immigration Detention in Italy in the Aftermath of the “Refugee Crisis”
The aim of this article is to explore the peculiarity of Italian policies on immigration detention and their evolution over time. This will be done by highlighting the main factors that might explain the apparent political disinvestment in immigration detention in Italy, in particular in the years between 2013 and 2015, and account for the turnaround in approach announced and then implemented by the two Interior Ministers in charge between 2017 a…
Policing Mobility Regimes
Geografia giuridica dei confini
By adopting the perspective of law and geography, this article explores the new morphology of borders and places a special emphasis on the role of law in redefining their spatiality. In particular, it identifies three main geostrategies along which the contemporary border regime is organized, namely, the geostrategy of nodes, zones and walls. In describing the new legal geography of borders, the article also highlights how the transformations and…
Policing Mobility Regimes
Regulating mobility through detention
The aim of this article is to describe the evolution of immigration detention policies at the Southern European border. This will be done by presenting original data on the actual functioning of immigration detention in Italy in the wake of the so-called “refugee crisis”. By shedding light on these developments, the article reveals a notable convergence of first reception and return policies, which in turn is driving a transformation of the lands…
On the systemic violence of return policies
This article examines the execution of forced removals in Italy. Drawing on the analysis of original sources, it explores which factors affect the use of force during return operations and how that use is rationalized. Offering a unique empirical perspective, the article documents the operational strategies in an area of administrative action where use of force is notably intense. After a brief methodological introduction, the analysis focuses on…
Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Immigration (5 works) · Immigration detention (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (4 works)