Francesca Esposito
Biographic Data
| ID | 646004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francesca Esposito |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francesca |
| FAMILY NAME | Esposito |
| SIGNATURE | ESPOSITO F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1698-5046 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Beyond Neutrality, Normalization, and Complicity at Times of the Genocide: Psychologists for Palestine
We have been witnessing the perpetuation of violent and cruel aggression against the Palestinian people by Israel. At the international level, there have been sparse individual or collective initiatives within the field of psychology to demonstrate solidarity with Palestine and against the genocide in Gaza, yet the question of Palestine remains ambiguous, and the possible stance of psychology as a research field and scientific institution on the …
“Who's breaking the law … not us, them!”: Inside immigration detention in Portugal
In this paper, we examine immigration detention in Portugal, a system whose daily operations and inherent violence are overlooked in both public and academic discourses. Even within community psychology, discussions on immigration detention have largely remained on the fringes of scholarly debates. Guided by a justice‐centered ecological lens, we map the contours of daily life in detention by centering the intersectional struggles of detained cis…
Multiculturalism in dominant ethnic populations: A transnational profile analysis
Following a person-centered approach, the present study investigates support for multiculturalism of dominant ethnic members. Using Latent Profile Analysis, the current investigation aimed to identify subgroups of dominant ethnic participants and examine potential difference in their endorsement of multiculturalism towards subaltern ethnic groups. Based on the existing literature, subgroups of dominant members were identified along with the combi…
A community psychology for migrant justice: Critically examining border violence and resistance during the Covid‐19 syndemic
This article explores the magnifying lenses of the COVID‐19 syndemic to highlight how people racialized as migrants and refugees have been—and continue to be—disproportionally harmed. We use empirical evidence collected in our scholarly/activist work in Europe, Africa, South Asia, and the United States to examine migrant injustice as being produced by a combination of power structures and relations working to maintain colonial global orders and i…
I’ve Been Hurt Every Single Day Here, You Know: A Feminist Abolitionist Analysis of Immigration Detention
While gendered violence against women at home, in intimate relationships, and in the workplace is widely acknowledged, the relationship between border control and gendered violence has only recently been addressed, often narrowly. To address this gap, this article examines the United Kingdom immigration detention system through an abolition feminist lens. Drawing on research conducted inside and outside detention sites, experiential knowledge fro…
Cramp, choke and disperse: The economy of migrants’ confinement in the UK
‘Border hotels’ have come to prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic as spaces of detention and quarantine. Despite the longer history of using hotels for immigrant detention, efforts to contain outbreaks have led to the proliferation of hotels used for border governance. Ad hoc quarantine facilities have been set up around the world acting as choke points for mobility. The use of hotels as sites of detention has also gained significant attention…
It's All about Data: The Relationship between Anthropologists and Data Scientists from a Technical Point of View
What do fieldwork experience in Indonesia and working at a computing company have in common? Why does it make sense for an anthropologist to work at a computing company? What do anthropologists and data scientists have in common? In this article, I will attempt to answer these questions and show how they are all interrelated. Additionally, I will explore how anthropology can impact data science and how data science can affect anthropology in the …
Special Issue Editorial Introduction: Entangling Data while Entangling Disciplines
This special issue discusses forms of possible collaboration and mutual intermixing between anthropology and data science, by presenting projects and creative experiments that have been conducted astray the two fields. While we may say that all scientists work with data, this special issue focuses on data that are collected and/or processed by digital means. In addition, attention will be paid to computation as anthropologists have recently turne…
Drawingvoice 2.0: Classroom joint designing and Facebook interactions to develop reflexivity and awareness
Drawingvoice 2.0 is an instructional method of collaborative pencil and paper drawing to use in the school classroom, followed by Facebook interaction on the drawing produced in class. It is based on a participatory and meta reflective approach, explicitly aimed at deconstructing, negotiating, and reconstructing the meaning that students attribute to themselves regarding their professional expectations and educational pathways. In particular, the…
Immigration Detention and the Coloniality of Gender
In the past few decades, as some scholars have pointed out, «borders and borderings have moved from the margins into the centre of political and social life». As a consequence, a growing body of scholarship has been produced in this field, thus highlighting the interconnections between mechanisms of migration control and everyday processes of racialisation and ethnicisation, as well as the genealogies of these interconnections. In this contributi…
Yes, But Somebody Has to Help Them, Somehow: ” Looking at the Italian Detention Field through the Eyes of Professional Nonstate Actors
Although migration-related detention has proliferated around the world, little is known about life inside these sites of confinement for illegalized non-citizens. Building on 34 months of fieldwork, this article examines the lived experiences of center staff and external civil-society actors engaged within Rome’s detention center. We discuss the emotional, ethical, and political challenges faced by these professional actors in their everyday work…
Fragmented citizenship: Contemporary Infrastructures of Mobility Containment Along Two Migratory Routes
Several authors have contended recently that the rationality of contemporary migration control can be most adequately grasped by the notion of ‘containment’, conceived as the redirection of people’s autonomous movement into restricted and defined pathways. Following this idea, this article proceeds in three steps. First, it proposes an analysis of the ‘infrastructures’ through which containment is enforced, showing the plural dimensions (regulato…
Ecology of Sites of Confinement: Everyday Life in a Detention Center for Illegalized Non‐citizens
Highlights In spite of concerns about migration‐related detention, research inside these sites of confinement is scarce. We present an ethnographic exploration into the detention of illegalized non‐citizens in Italy. Transcending individual‐centered analysis, we adopt an ecological framework with a focus on justice. We contribute to create knowledge on the psychosocial and cultural world behind the walls of detention. We discuss the oppressive qu…
Voices from the Inside: Lived Experiences of Women Confined in a Detention Center
Drawing on two years of fieldwork, this article focuses on the lived experiences of women detained inside Rome’s Identification and Expulsion Center, the main migration-related detention facility in Italy. We employed a thematic narrative analysis to examine the narratives of five women with different life trajectories in order to identify continuities and discontinuities within and across their stories. This analysis reveals that women’s experie…
Sexual Prejudice in Portugal: Results from the First Wave European Study on Heterosexual’s Attitudes Toward Same-Gender Marriage and Parenting
Voices of Nigerian Women Survivors of Trafficking Held in Italian Centres for Identification and Expulsion
This article examines the vicissitudes that affect the migration trajectories of many Nigerian women who experienced trafficking before arriving in Italy, and end up in Centers for Identification and Expulsion ( CIE ) for undocumented migrants. Their life stories, collected within the CIE of Ponte Galeria (Rome), revealed violence as “a rule of action” with which these women are obliged to cope with at different levels. Moreover, they highlighted…
Migration-related detention centers: The challenges of an ecological perspective with a focus on justice
BACKGROUND: In recent years, border control and migration-related detention have become increasingly widespread practices affecting the lives of undocumented migrants, their families, and communities at large. In spite of the concern within academia, few studies have directly witnessed the life and experiences of people confined to migration-related detention centers. In the medical and psychological fields, a considerable body of research has de…
Effect of nutritional supplementation of breastfeeding HIV positive mothers on maternal and child health: Findings from a randomized controlled clinical trial
ISRCTN68128332 (http://www.controlled-trials.com/ISRCTN68128332)
Breastfeeding in HIV Exposed Infants Significantly Improves Child Health: A Prospective Study
Fragmented citizenship: Contemporary Infrastructures of Mobility Containment Along Two Migratory Routes
Several authors have contended recently that the rationality of contemporary migration control can be most adequately grasped by the notion of ‘containment’, conceived as the redirection of people’s autonomous movement into restricted and defined pathways. Following this idea, this article proceeds in three steps. First, it proposes an analysis of the ‘infrastructures’ through which containment is enforced, showing the plural dimensions (regulato…
Ecology of Sites of Confinement: Everyday Life in a Detention Center for Illegalized Non‐citizens
Highlights In spite of concerns about migration‐related detention, research inside these sites of confinement is scarce. We present an ethnographic exploration into the detention of illegalized non‐citizens in Italy. Transcending individual‐centered analysis, we adopt an ecological framework with a focus on justice. We contribute to create knowledge on the psychosocial and cultural world behind the walls of detention. We discuss the oppressive qu…
Sexual Prejudice in Portugal: Results from the First Wave European Study on Heterosexual’s Attitudes Toward Same-Gender Marriage and Parenting
Voices of Nigerian Women Survivors of Trafficking Held in Italian Centres for Identification and Expulsion
This article examines the vicissitudes that affect the migration trajectories of many Nigerian women who experienced trafficking before arriving in Italy, and end up in Centers for Identification and Expulsion ( CIE ) for undocumented migrants. Their life stories, collected within the CIE of Ponte Galeria (Rome), revealed violence as “a rule of action” with which these women are obliged to cope with at different levels. Moreover, they highlighted…
A community psychology for migrant justice: Critically examining border violence and resistance during the Covid‐19 syndemic
This article explores the magnifying lenses of the COVID‐19 syndemic to highlight how people racialized as migrants and refugees have been—and continue to be—disproportionally harmed. We use empirical evidence collected in our scholarly/activist work in Europe, Africa, South Asia, and the United States to examine migrant injustice as being produced by a combination of power structures and relations working to maintain colonial global orders and i…
Yes, But Somebody Has to Help Them, Somehow: ” Looking at the Italian Detention Field through the Eyes of Professional Nonstate Actors
Although migration-related detention has proliferated around the world, little is known about life inside these sites of confinement for illegalized non-citizens. Building on 34 months of fieldwork, this article examines the lived experiences of center staff and external civil-society actors engaged within Rome’s detention center. We discuss the emotional, ethical, and political challenges faced by these professional actors in their everyday work…
Cramp, choke and disperse: The economy of migrants’ confinement in the UK
‘Border hotels’ have come to prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic as spaces of detention and quarantine. Despite the longer history of using hotels for immigrant detention, efforts to contain outbreaks have led to the proliferation of hotels used for border governance. Ad hoc quarantine facilities have been set up around the world acting as choke points for mobility. The use of hotels as sites of detention has also gained significant attention…
Special Issue Editorial Introduction: Entangling Data while Entangling Disciplines
This special issue discusses forms of possible collaboration and mutual intermixing between anthropology and data science, by presenting projects and creative experiments that have been conducted astray the two fields. While we may say that all scientists work with data, this special issue focuses on data that are collected and/or processed by digital means. In addition, attention will be paid to computation as anthropologists have recently turne…
I’ve Been Hurt Every Single Day Here, You Know: A Feminist Abolitionist Analysis of Immigration Detention
While gendered violence against women at home, in intimate relationships, and in the workplace is widely acknowledged, the relationship between border control and gendered violence has only recently been addressed, often narrowly. To address this gap, this article examines the United Kingdom immigration detention system through an abolition feminist lens. Drawing on research conducted inside and outside detention sites, experiential knowledge fro…
Effect of nutritional supplementation of breastfeeding HIV positive mothers on maternal and child health: Findings from a randomized controlled clinical trial
ISRCTN68128332 (http://www.controlled-trials.com/ISRCTN68128332)
Breastfeeding in HIV Exposed Infants Significantly Improves Child Health: A Prospective Study
Migration-related detention centers: The challenges of an ecological perspective with a focus on justice
BACKGROUND: In recent years, border control and migration-related detention have become increasingly widespread practices affecting the lives of undocumented migrants, their families, and communities at large. In spite of the concern within academia, few studies have directly witnessed the life and experiences of people confined to migration-related detention centers. In the medical and psychological fields, a considerable body of research has de…
Voices of Nigerian Women Survivors of Trafficking Held in Italian Centres for Identification and Expulsion
This article examines the vicissitudes that affect the migration trajectories of many Nigerian women who experienced trafficking before arriving in Italy, and end up in Centers for Identification and Expulsion ( CIE ) for undocumented migrants. Their life stories, collected within the CIE of Ponte Galeria (Rome), revealed violence as “a rule of action” with which these women are obliged to cope with at different levels. Moreover, they highlighted…
Sexual Prejudice in Portugal: Results from the First Wave European Study on Heterosexual’s Attitudes Toward Same-Gender Marriage and Parenting
Voices from the Inside: Lived Experiences of Women Confined in a Detention Center
Drawing on two years of fieldwork, this article focuses on the lived experiences of women detained inside Rome’s Identification and Expulsion Center, the main migration-related detention facility in Italy. We employed a thematic narrative analysis to examine the narratives of five women with different life trajectories in order to identify continuities and discontinuities within and across their stories. This analysis reveals that women’s experie…
Ecology of Sites of Confinement: Everyday Life in a Detention Center for Illegalized Non‐citizens
Highlights In spite of concerns about migration‐related detention, research inside these sites of confinement is scarce. We present an ethnographic exploration into the detention of illegalized non‐citizens in Italy. Transcending individual‐centered analysis, we adopt an ecological framework with a focus on justice. We contribute to create knowledge on the psychosocial and cultural world behind the walls of detention. We discuss the oppressive qu…
Fragmented citizenship: Contemporary Infrastructures of Mobility Containment Along Two Migratory Routes
Several authors have contended recently that the rationality of contemporary migration control can be most adequately grasped by the notion of ‘containment’, conceived as the redirection of people’s autonomous movement into restricted and defined pathways. Following this idea, this article proceeds in three steps. First, it proposes an analysis of the ‘infrastructures’ through which containment is enforced, showing the plural dimensions (regulato…
Drawingvoice 2.0: Classroom joint designing and Facebook interactions to develop reflexivity and awareness
Drawingvoice 2.0 is an instructional method of collaborative pencil and paper drawing to use in the school classroom, followed by Facebook interaction on the drawing produced in class. It is based on a participatory and meta reflective approach, explicitly aimed at deconstructing, negotiating, and reconstructing the meaning that students attribute to themselves regarding their professional expectations and educational pathways. In particular, the…
Immigration Detention and the Coloniality of Gender
In the past few decades, as some scholars have pointed out, «borders and borderings have moved from the margins into the centre of political and social life». As a consequence, a growing body of scholarship has been produced in this field, thus highlighting the interconnections between mechanisms of migration control and everyday processes of racialisation and ethnicisation, as well as the genealogies of these interconnections. In this contributi…
Yes, But Somebody Has to Help Them, Somehow: ” Looking at the Italian Detention Field through the Eyes of Professional Nonstate Actors
Although migration-related detention has proliferated around the world, little is known about life inside these sites of confinement for illegalized non-citizens. Building on 34 months of fieldwork, this article examines the lived experiences of center staff and external civil-society actors engaged within Rome’s detention center. We discuss the emotional, ethical, and political challenges faced by these professional actors in their everyday work…
Cramp, choke and disperse: The economy of migrants’ confinement in the UK
‘Border hotels’ have come to prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic as spaces of detention and quarantine. Despite the longer history of using hotels for immigrant detention, efforts to contain outbreaks have led to the proliferation of hotels used for border governance. Ad hoc quarantine facilities have been set up around the world acting as choke points for mobility. The use of hotels as sites of detention has also gained significant attention…
It's All about Data: The Relationship between Anthropologists and Data Scientists from a Technical Point of View
What do fieldwork experience in Indonesia and working at a computing company have in common? Why does it make sense for an anthropologist to work at a computing company? What do anthropologists and data scientists have in common? In this article, I will attempt to answer these questions and show how they are all interrelated. Additionally, I will explore how anthropology can impact data science and how data science can affect anthropology in the …
Special Issue Editorial Introduction: Entangling Data while Entangling Disciplines
This special issue discusses forms of possible collaboration and mutual intermixing between anthropology and data science, by presenting projects and creative experiments that have been conducted astray the two fields. While we may say that all scientists work with data, this special issue focuses on data that are collected and/or processed by digital means. In addition, attention will be paid to computation as anthropologists have recently turne…
Multiculturalism in dominant ethnic populations: A transnational profile analysis
Following a person-centered approach, the present study investigates support for multiculturalism of dominant ethnic members. Using Latent Profile Analysis, the current investigation aimed to identify subgroups of dominant ethnic participants and examine potential difference in their endorsement of multiculturalism towards subaltern ethnic groups. Based on the existing literature, subgroups of dominant members were identified along with the combi…
A community psychology for migrant justice: Critically examining border violence and resistance during the Covid‐19 syndemic
This article explores the magnifying lenses of the COVID‐19 syndemic to highlight how people racialized as migrants and refugees have been—and continue to be—disproportionally harmed. We use empirical evidence collected in our scholarly/activist work in Europe, Africa, South Asia, and the United States to examine migrant injustice as being produced by a combination of power structures and relations working to maintain colonial global orders and i…
I’ve Been Hurt Every Single Day Here, You Know: A Feminist Abolitionist Analysis of Immigration Detention
While gendered violence against women at home, in intimate relationships, and in the workplace is widely acknowledged, the relationship between border control and gendered violence has only recently been addressed, often narrowly. To address this gap, this article examines the United Kingdom immigration detention system through an abolition feminist lens. Drawing on research conducted inside and outside detention sites, experiential knowledge fro…
“Who's breaking the law … not us, them!”: Inside immigration detention in Portugal
In this paper, we examine immigration detention in Portugal, a system whose daily operations and inherent violence are overlooked in both public and academic discourses. Even within community psychology, discussions on immigration detention have largely remained on the fringes of scholarly debates. Guided by a justice‐centered ecological lens, we map the contours of daily life in detention by centering the intersectional struggles of detained cis…
Beyond Neutrality, Normalization, and Complicity at Times of the Genocide: Psychologists for Palestine
We have been witnessing the perpetuation of violent and cruel aggression against the Palestinian people by Israel. At the international level, there have been sparse individual or collective initiatives within the field of psychology to demonstrate solidarity with Palestine and against the genocide in Gaza, yet the question of Palestine remains ambiguous, and the possible stance of psychology as a research field and scientific institution on the …
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Criminology (8 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (4 works)