Francesca Esposito (F718-CEBF-C631)

Curriculum Vitae

Francesca Esposito

I completed my Ph.D. in Psychology (Area of Specialisation: Community Psychology) at the ISPA-University Institute of Lisbon. From 2019 to 2020, I was a British Academy Newton International Fellow at the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford (UK). From December 2020 to October 2024 I had a research contract at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-ULisboa) following the successful application to the FCT Call Scientific Employment Stimulus 2018. During 2021 and 2022, I also lectured at the University of Westminster in London. In October 2024 I started a research tenure-track position at the University of Bologna, Department of Psychology "Renzo Canestrari", which is ongoing. My research focuses primarily on immigration detention, in Portugal, Italy, and the UK. Mixing qualitative/quantitative interviews and field observations, I study the daily life and lived experiences of people inside detention centres. Based on my work, I authored a number of papers in international books/journals and blogposts. I am currently an Associate Director at Border Criminologies, University of Oxford, and a member of the Executive Board of the European Community Psychology Association (ECPA) as well as of the Editorial Board of the international journal Community Psychology in Global Perspective (CPGP). I am also a member of the NGO BeFree (Rome, Italy), where I worked several years as an advocate for women survivors of gender-based violence. During my academic career I have been awarded several grants, including the 2017 Janet Hyde Graduate Student Research Grant to support feminist research sponsored by the Society for the Psychology of Women (Division 35 of the American Psychology Association); the 2018 National Student Representative Research Grants sponsored by the Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA, Division 27 of the American Psychology Association); the Best Doctoral Thesis Award 2021 sponsored by the ECPA; and the Best Dissertation in a Topic Relevant to Community Psychology Award sponsored by the SCRA. Finally, in 2021, I was awarded the status of SCRA Research Fellow for the biennium 2022-2024. I was among a group of six international early career scholars to receive this status, which is granted to researchers who have distinguished themselves for exceptional contributions in the field of community psychology research and intervention.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Francesca Esposito

Citation names

Esposito, Francesca

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: F718-CEBF-C631
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1698-5046

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences - Psychology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Portuguese	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)
Italian (Mother tongue)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2022/05 - 2033/05 Ongoing	National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) as Associate Professor in the Italian higher education system, for the disciplinary field of Social Psychology, Work, and Organizational Psychology (Licence) Governo Italiano Ministero dell'Istruzione dell'Università e della Ricerca, Italy
2013/06 - 2019/01 Concluded	Psychology (Doutoramento) Major in Community Psychology Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal "Life and Lived Experiences of People inside Migration-related detention: An ecological exploration into Rome's detention centre." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Full marks with honors.
2011 - 2016 Concluded	School of Specialization in Health Psychology, "Sapienza" University of Rome (Postgraduate Certificate) Major in Health Psychology Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Facoltà di Medicina e Psicologia, Italy "Self Help as a Tool to Promote Quality of Life: Voices of Women Survivors of Intimate Patner Violence" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Full marks with honors.
2007 - 2010 Concluded	Dynamic and Clinical Psychology of the person, the organizations and the community (Master) Major in Community Psychology Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Facoltà di Medicina e Psicologia, Italy "Disability and school inclusion in Mozambique from teachers' point of view: an exploratory research within an international cooperation project." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Full marks with honors.
2003 - 2007 Concluded	Psychological sciences and techniques for clinical intervention with the person, the group, and the institutions. (Bachelor) Major in Clinical Psychology Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy "Resoconto tirocinio (Internship Report)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Full marks with honors.

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/10/06 - Current	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy
	Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Psicologia 'Renzo Canestrari', Italy
2020/12 - 2024/10/05	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2019/01 - 2020/11	Postdoc (Research)	Centre for Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
	Centre for Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2018 - 2020/11	Auxiliary Researcher (Research)	ISPA-Instituto Universitário, APPsyCI - Applied Psychology Research Center Capabilities & Inclusion, Portugal
	ISPA-Instituto Universitário, APPsyCI - Applied Psychology Research Center Capabilities & Inclusion, Portugal
2018/10 - 2019/03	Visiting Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal

2017/05 - 2017/06	Visiting Researcher (Research)	University of Oxford - Center for Criminology (Faculty of Law), United Kingdom

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/10 - 2022/12	Lecturer (University Teacher)	University of Westminster, United Kingdom
	University of Westminster School of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
2019/09 - 2022/06	Lecturer (University Teacher)	Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
	Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2019 - 2022	Lecturer (University Teacher)	Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
	Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli Dipartimento di Psicologia, Italy

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2018/01 - 2018/11	Research Consultant	International Organization for Migration - Portugal, Portugal

2009 - 2016	Consultant (various positions as trainer, researcher, community psychologist)	BeFree Cooperativa Sociale contro tratta, violenza, discriminazioni, Italy

2012/12 - 2013/05	National Research Expert	Aletta Kennisinstituut voor Emancipatie en Vrouwengeschiedenis, Netherlands

2012/01 - 2013/04	Community Psychologist (community integration of people with mental health challenges)	Associação para o Estudo e Integração Psicossocial, Portugal

2008 - 2009	Community Psychologist (community integration of unaccompained migrant minors).	A.T.I. Domus Caritas – Arciconfraternita S.S. Sacramento , Italy

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2021/06 - 2024/07	The Gender of Margins: Shedding Light on Detained Women's Experiences SRG2021\210644 Principal investigator	The British Academy Concluded
2021/12 - 2022/07	Exposing the Gendered Violence of the Detention Regime na Principal investigator University of Westminster School of Social Sciences, United Kingdom	University of Westminster College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Concluded
2019 - 2021	Immigration Detention in Italy and Greece: Safeguarding Human Rights at European Southern Frontier - Researcher University of Oxford - Border Criminologies, United Kingdom	Open Society Foundations Ongoing
2019/01 - 2020/12	Making Gender Visibile: An Intersectional Exploration of Immigration Detention in the UK, Italy, and Portugal. NIF\R1\181103 Principal investigator Centre for Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, United Kingdom	The British Academy Concluded
2019 - 2020	Agua Futura B56C18002050005 Researcher Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Dipartimento di Psicologia Dinamica e Clinica, Italy	Agenzia Italiana per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo Concluded
2009/05 - 2010/07	PRETEP: Programma di Supporto alla Riforma del Sistema della Formazione Tecnico-Professionale attualmente in corso in Mozambico su finanziamento del Governo Italiano. Un progetto pilota sull'inclusione scolastica degli studenti disabili. AID 8095 Master Student Fellow Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Facoltà di Medicina e Psicologia, Italy	Cooperazione italiana allo Sviluppo Governo Italiano Ministero degli Affari Esteri Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2021 - 2022	Acculturation Expectations in Southern European Receiving Societies: An Analysis of Dynamics and Profiles in Spain, Portugal, and Italy n/a Researcher Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book	Esposito, Francesca. A detenção das pessoas migrantes em Portugal: Um debate silenciado. Portugal: Outro Modo. 2026. Accepted • Editor Esposito, Francesca; Degenhardt, Teresa; Lindberg, Annika. Detention and Deportation in Eurupe. Analyses, Contestations and Radical Visions in the aftermath of Covid-19.. Bristol, United Kingdom: Bristol University Press. 2026. In press • Editor Esposito, Francesca; Caja, Emilio; Mattiello, Giacomo. Corpi reclusi in attesa di espulsione: La detenzione amministrativa in Europa al tempo della sindemia. Torino, Italy: SEB 27. 2022. Editor
Book chapter	Esposito, Francesca; Caja, Emilio. "Detention and deportation in Portugal: the colonial legacies of a racialised governing of mobility". In Border Criminologies from the Periphery Cross-national Conversations on Bordered Penality, edited by Fabini, Giulia; Fernández-Bessa, Cristina; Ferraris, Valeria; Brandariz, Jose, 217-243. Routledge, 2025. Published Esposito, Francesca; Bosworth, Mary. "Gender, Violence and Regimes of Vulnerability in Immigration Detention: A Transnational Analysis". In Immigration Detention and Social Harm: The Collateral Impacts of Migrant Incarceration, edited by Peterie, Michelle, 137-154. Routledge, 2024. Published Esposito, Francesca; Rebelo, Dora Marina Honório da Costa Almeida. "Examining borders and border violence: a critical community psychology perspective.". In Handbook of Decolonial Community Psychology, edited by Sonn, Christopher; Siham Fernández, Jesica; Moura Jr., James; Eviandaru Madyaningrum, Monica; Malherbe, Nick, 255-273. Springer, 2024. Published Cowan, Leah; Esposito, Francesca; Hopwood, Sarah; Kalokoh, Aminata; Martins, Vânia; Zivardar, Elahe. "Challenging borders through a feminist lens: abolitionist experiences and imaginaries". In Border Abolition Now, edited by Riva, Sara; Campbell, Simon; Whitener, Brian; Medien, Kathryn, 19-35. London, United Kingdom: Pluto Press, 2024. Published Corazza Padovani, Natalia; Esposito, Francesca. "Gender, mobilities, and imprisonment: entanglements between borders, migration control and criminal justice in the experiences of non-citizen women in Italy and Brazil". In Handbook on Border Criminology, edited by Bosworth, Mary; Franko, Katja; Lee, Maggy; Mehta, Rimple, 282-296. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2024. Published Esposito, Francesca; Giuliani, Gaia; Pessoa, Emerson; Silva, Vera. "The Covid-19 pandemic and its impacts: a dialogue on intersectional vulnerabilities and resistances". In Pandemic of Perspectives, edited by Mehta, Rimple; Thakur, Sandali; Chakraborty, Debaroti, 259-277. Routledge India, 2022. Published • 10.4324/9781003320524-41 Procentese, Fortuna; Novara, Cinzia; Esposito, Francesca. "Emergenze collettive [Collective Emergencies]". In Psicologia di Comunità Volume II. Metodologia, ricerca e intervento., edited by Arcidiacono, Caterina; di Piccoli, Norma; Mannarini, Terri; Marta, Elena, 120-135. Milan, Italy: Franco Angeli, 2022. Published Caja, Emilio; Celoria, Eleonora; Mattiello, Giacomo; Esposito, Francesca. "E dopo il lockdown, cosa?". In Corpi reclusi in attesa di espulsione: La detenzione amministrativa in Europa al tempo della sindemia, edited by Esposito, Francesca; Caja, Emilio; Mattiello, Giacomo, 123-165. Turin, Italy: Edizioni SEB27, 2022. Published Esposito, Francesca; Caja, Emilio; Mattiello, Giacomo. "Storie di violenza, storie di resistenza: note a margine per un futuro abolizionista". In Corpi reclusi in attesa di espulsione: La detenzione amministrativa in Europa al tempo della sindemia, edited by Esposito, Francesca; Caja, Emilio; Mattiello, Giacomo, 309-320. Turin, Italy: Edizioni SEB27, 2022. Published Esposito, Francesca; Caja, Emilio; Mattiello, Giacomo. "Introduzione". In Corpi reclusi in attesa di espulsione: La detenzione amministrativa in Europa al tempo della sindemia, edited by Esposito, Francesca; Caja, Emilio; Mattiello, Giacomo, 15-28. Turin, Italy: Edizioni SEB27, 2022. Published Mattiello, Giacomo; Caja, Emilio; Esposito, Francesca. ""Ormai non ci guarda più nessuno": un confinamento nel confinamento". In Corpi reclusi in attesa di espulsione: La detenzione amministrativa in Europa al tempo della sindemia, edited by Esposito, Francesca; Caja, Emilio; Mattiello, Giacomo. Turin, Italy: Edizioni SEB27, 2022. Published Bosworth, Mary; Esposito, Francesca; Fili, Andriani. "Accessing Justice from Immigration Detention in Greece and Italy". In Rule of Law: Strategies, Experiences, and Interpretations, edited by Faedda, Barbara, 177-185. Vicenza: Ronzani Editore, 2021. Published Arcidiacono, Caterina; Esposito, Francesca. "Osservazione Ecologica". In Psicologia di comunità per le città. Rigenerazione urbana a Porta Capuana, edited by Arcidiacono, Caterina, 199-207. Italy: Liguori, 2017. Published Esposito, Francesca; Ornelas, José; Arcidiacono, Caterina. "Migration-related detention: A focus on the Italian context". In The Borders of Schengen, edited by Cunha, Alice; Silva, Marta; Frederico, Rui, 177-191. Bruxelles, Belgium: Peter Lang, 2015. Published Esposito, Francesca. "Quale potere per quale salute? Una proposta di rilettura della psicologia della salute in ottica critica: Professionisti della salute e/o agenti critici di cambiamento?". In La Torre di Igea. Psicosomatica e psicologia della salute, edited by Garufi Bozza, Giovanni, 101-126. Italy: Edizioni Psiconline (Collana: Ricerche e contributi in psicologia), 2015. Published Gargano, Oria; Esposito, Francesca; Quinto, Carla R.; De Masi, Francesca. "La tratta delle donne nigeriane: dalla Libia all'Italia, dalla schiavitú alla deportazione". In Libeccio d'Oltremare, edited by Pirri, Ambra, 247-276. Italy: Ediesse (Collana: Sessismo e Razzismo), 2011. Published
Conference poster	Esposito, Francesca; Ornelas, José; Arcidiacono, Caterina; Briozzo, Erica. "Life and resistance in a Detention Unit in Portugal". Paper presented in 2nd International Conference “Race, Identity, Globalization. Disavowal, dominations and transformations" (Lisbon), 2017. Esposito, Francesca; Ornelas, José; Arcidiacono, Caterina; Scirocchi, Silvia. "Ecologia de um centro de detenção para migrantes em situação irregular: o caso do CIE de Roma". Paper presented in IX Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia (Faro), 2016. Esposito, Francesca; Ornelas, José; Arcidiacono, Caterina. "Una analisi ecologica di un centro di identificazione ed espulsione per migranti in situazione di irregolarità". Paper presented in XI Convegno nazionale SIPCO “Frontiere di Comunità: Complessità confronto” (Bergamo), 2016. Esposito, Francesca; Ornelas, José; Arcidiacono, Caterina. "Migration-Related Detention: A new Challenge. What Can Community Psychologists Do?". Paper presented in 9th European Congress of Community Psychology "Beyond the Crisis. Building Community and critical visions to achieve justice, fairness and well-being" (Naples), 2013. Costa, Pedro Alexandre; Esposito, Francesca; Pereira, Henrique; Leal, Isabel. "The social context of lesbian and gay families in Portugal". Paper presented in 9th European Congress of Community Psychology "Beyond the Crisis. Building Community and critical visions to achieve justice, fairness and well-being" (Naples), 2013. Tomai, Manuela; Rosa, Veronica; Esposito, Francesca. "The Representation of the Psychological Intervention Among Italian Hospital Physicians". Paper presented in 22nd World Congress on Psychosomatic Medicine (Lisbon), 2013. Rosa, Veronica; Tomai, Manuela; Esposito, Francesca. "The Role of Psychologists in Italian Hospital Settings". Paper presented in 22nd World Congress on Psychosomatic Medicine (Lisbon), 2013. Esposito, Francesca. "Coming out From Violence: An Help-Desk for Women Victims of Violence by Their Same-sex Partners". Paper presented in LGBT Psychology and Related Fields "Coming Out for LGBT Psychology in the current International scenario" (Lisbon), 2013. Esposito, Francesca; Tomai, Manuela; Costa, Pedro Alexandre. "From victims to survivors: narratives about self-help impact on women’s empowerment". Paper presented in 14th SCRA Biennial Conference (Miami), 2013. Esposito, Francesca; Arcidiacono, Caterina; Ornelas, José. "Living on the border: an ecological glimpse on migrant-related administrative detention centres". Paper presented in 14th SCRA Biennial Conference (Miami), 2013. Esposito, Francesca; Texeira, Erica. "A Matter of Gen(d)re: using audio-visual tools to promote gender awareness and empowerment". Paper presented in 14th SCRA Biennial Conference (Miami), 2013. Esposito, Francesca; Tomai, Manuela. "Usar a ajuda-mútua para promover o empowerment de mulheres sobreviventes de violência nas relações intimas". Paper presented in II Encontro Psicologia Comunitária (Ponta Delgada), 2012. Esposito, Francesca; Quinto, Carla R.; De Masi, Francesca. "Contrastare le ingiustizie sociali all’interno dei Centri di Identificazione ed Espulsione (C.I.E.): un’esperienza di lavoro con le donne immigrate vittime". Paper presented in 8th National Conference The prevention in the school and in the community: "Quality in action" (Padova), 2011.
Edited book	Esposito, Francesca; Caja, Emilio; Mattiello, Giacomo. Corpi reclusi in attesa di espulsione: La detenzione amministrativa in Europa al tempo della sindemia. Turin, Italy: Edizioni SEB27. 2022. Published • Editor
Journal article	Esposito, Francesca; De Lellis, Federica; de Cordova, Federica; Briozzo, Erica. "“Who's breaking the law … not us, them!”: Inside immigration detention in Portugal". American Journal of Community Psychology (2025): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12784. Open access • Published • 10.1002/ajcp.12784 Rochira, Alessia; Verbena, Serena; Briozzo, Erica; De Simone, Evelyn; Esposito, Francesca; Garrido, Rocío; Ramírez, Manuel García; et al. "Multiculturalism in dominant ethnic populations: A transnational profile analysis". International Journal of Intercultural Relations 103 (2024): 102051. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102051. Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102051 Esposito, Francesca; Degenhardt, Teresa; Kalokoh, Aminata. "“I’ve Been Hurt Every Single Day Here, You Know:” A Feminist Abolitionist Analysis of Immigration Detention". Critical Criminology 32 2 (2024): 389-408. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-024-09786-0. Open access • Published • 10.1007/s10612-024-09786-0 Esposito, Francesca; Rebelo, Dora; Olanrewaju, Moshood; Vine, Megan; Fernandes-Jesus, Maria; Bodden, Debi; Kalokoh, Aminata; Olson, Bradley. "A community psychology for migrant justice: Critically examining border violence and resistance during the COVID-19 syndemic". American Journal of Community Psychology 73 1-2 (2024): 27-43. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12669. Open access • Published • 10.1002/ajcp.12669 Fernandes-Jesus, Maria; Cecconi, Annalisa; Esposito, Francesca; Vargas-Moniz, Maria; Albanesi, Cinzia. "Socio-psychological perspectives on climate related migration: a systematic review and research agenda". Community Psychology in Global Perspective 10 2 (2024): 156-190. http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/cpgp/article/view/27731. Open access • Published Esposito, Francesca; Tazzioli, Martina. "Cramp, choke and disperse: the economy of migrants' confinement in the UK". Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space (2023): 239965442311572. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23996544231157254. 10.1177/23996544231157254 Manek, Julia; Nethery, Amy; Esposito, Francesca; Pérez-Sales, Pau; Horz, Holger. "Mapping migration detention: Mixed methods, grounded theory, transdisciplinary encounters". Methods in Psychology 9 (2023): 100129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metip.2023.100129. Published • 10.1016/j.metip.2023.100129 Esposito, Francesca; Di Martino, Salvatore; Briozzo, Erica; Arcidiacono, Caterina; Ornelas, Jose. "Women's Experiences of Immigration Detention in Italy: Examining Immigration Procedural Fairness, Human Dignity, and Health". Frontiers in Psychology 13 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.798629. Published • 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.798629 Esposito, Francesca; Di Napoli, Immacolata; Ornelas, José; Briozzo, Erica; Arcidiacono, Caterina. "Examining life in detention: A process of survey translation and adaptation through an ecological and collaborative approach". Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community (2021): 1-15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10852352.2021.1918827. Published • 10.1080/10852352.2021.1918827 Carnevale, Stefania; Di Napoli, Immacolata; Esposito, Francesca; Arcidiacono, Caterina. "Drawingvoice 2.0: classroom joint designing and Facebook interactions to develop reflexivity and awareness". Educational Technology Research and Development 69 6 (2021): 2939-2962. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11423-021-10042-3. Published • 10.1007/s11423-021-10042-3 Esposito, Francesca. "Immigration Detention and the Coloniality of Gender". Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez 51-1 (2021): 271-275. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/mcv.14768. Published • 10.4000/mcv.14768 Esposito, Francesca; Ornelas, José; Scirocchi, Silvia; Tomai, Manuela; Di Napoli, Immacolata; Arcidiacono, Caterina. "'Yes, But Somebody Has to Help Them, Somehow': Looking at the Italian Detention Field through the Eyes of Professional Nonstate Actors". International Migration Review 55 1 (2021): 166-194. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0197918320921134. Open access • 10.1177/0197918320921134 Esposito, Francesca; Matos, Raquel; Bosworth, Mary. "Gender, Vulnerability and Everyday Resistance in Immigration Detention: Women's Experiences of Confinement in a Portuguese Detention Facility". International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 9 3 (2020): 5-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v9i3.1588. Open access • Published • 10.5204/ijcjsd.v9i3.1588 Esposito, Francesca; Murtaza, Alí; Peano, Irene; Vacchiano, Francesco. "Fragmented citizenship: contemporary infrastructures of mobility containment along two migratory routes". Citizenship Studies 24 5 (2020): 625-641. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2020.1784642. Open access • Published • 10.1080/13621025.2020.1784642 Esposito, Francesca; Kellezi, Blerina. "Border violence, migrant resistance, and acts of solidarity at individual, collective, and community levels: Critical reflections from a Community Psychology perspective". Community Psychology in Global Perspective 6 1 (2020): 1-16. http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/cpgp/article/view/21829. Open access • Published Esposito, Francesca; Ornelas, José; Briozzo, Erica; Arcidiacono, Caterina. "Ecology of Sites of Confinement: Everyday Life in a Detention Center for Illegalized Non-citizens". American Journal of Community Psychology 63 1-2 (2019): 190-207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12313. 10.1002/ajcp.12313 Esposito, Francesca; Ornelas, José; Scirocchi, Silvia; Arcidiacono, Caterina. "Voices from the Inside: Lived Experiences of Women Confined in a Detention Center". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 44 2 (2019): 403-431. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/699344. Published • 10.1086/699344 Matos, Raquel; Esposito, Francesca. "Women's experiences of border crossing: gender, mobility and border control". International Journal of Migration and Border Studies 5 4 (2019): 371-391. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijmbs.2019.105809. Published • 10.1504/ijmbs.2019.105809 Langhout, Regina Day ; Buckingham, Sara L.; Oberoi, Ashmeet Kaur ; Chávez, Noé Rubén ; Rusch, Dana; Esposito, Francesca; Suarez-Balcazar, Yolanda. "Statement on the Effects of Deportation and Forced Separation on Immigrants, their Families, and Communities". American Journal of Community Psychology 62 1-2 (2018): 3-12. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajcp.12256. Open access • Published • 10.1002/ajcp.12256 Esposito, F.; Tomai, M.; Nannini, V.; Giardinieri, L.; Costa, P.A.. "From rehabilitation to recovery: A self-help experience to regain quality of life after violence". Journal of Special Education and Rehabilitation 19 3-4 (2018): 85-104. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85065584225&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.19057/jser.2019.42 Costa, Pedro Alexandre; Carneiro, Francis Anne; Esposito, Francesca; D’Amore, Salvatore; Green, Robert-Jay. "Sexual Prejudice in Portugal: Results from the First Wave European Study on Heterosexual’s Attitudes Toward Same-Gender Marriage and Parenting". Sexuality Research and Social Policy 15 1 (2017): 99-110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13178-017-0292-y. 10.1007/s13178-017-0292-y Esposito, Francesca. "Practicing ethnography in migration-related detention centers: A reflexive account". Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community 45 1 (2017): 57-69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10852352.2016.1197742. Published • 10.1080/10852352.2016.1197742 Tomai, Manuela; Langher, Viviana; Martino, Gabriella; Esposito, Francesca; Ricci, Maria Elisabetta; Caputo, Andrea. "Promoting the development of children with disabilities through school inclusion: clinical psychology in supporting teachers in Mozambique". Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology 5 3 (2017): http://cab.unime.it/journals/index.php/MJCP/article/view/1671. Open access • Published • 10.6092/2282-1619/2017.5.1671 Tomai, M.; Esposito, F.; Rosa, V.. "Psychologists in Italian hospital settings: An exploratory analysis of hospital physicians' representations and demands of psychological intervention". Interdisciplinaria 34 1 (2017): 5-23. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85030679426&partnerID=MN8TOARS. Esposito, Francesca; Quinto, Carla R.; De Masi, Francesca; Gargano, Oria; Costa, Pedro Alexandre. "Voices of Nigerian Women Survivors of Trafficking Held in Italian Centres for Identification and Expulsion". International Migration 54 4 (2016): 133-149. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/imig.12253. 10.1111/imig.12253 Esposito, Francesca; Ornelas, José; Arcidiacono, Caterina. "Migration-related detention centers: the challenges of an ecological perspective with a focus on justice". BMC International Health and Human Rights 15 13 (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12914-015-0052-0. Open access • Published • 10.1186/s12914-015-0052-0 Ornelas, José; Sacchetto, Beatrice; Esposito, Francesca. "Il Programma Casas Primeiro per le persone senza fissa dimora nella città di Lisbona". SouQuaderni 10 (2014): http://www.souqonline.it/home2_2.asp?idtesto=2009&idpadre=869&son=1#.XD-DLSfSI6g. Open access • Published Ornelas, José; Esposito, Francesca; Sacchetto, Beatrice. "Contributi di una organizzazione su base comunitaria per la trasformazione del Sistema di Salute Mentale in Portogallo [Contributions of a Community-Based Organization for the Transformation of the Mental Health System in Portugal]". Rivista di Psicologia Clinica 1 (2014): 220-239. http://www.rivistadipsicologiaclinica.it/ojs/index.php/rpc/article/view/436/565. Esposito, Francesca. "Self-help groups with women victims of intimate partner violence". Funzione Gamma 29 (2012): https://www.funzionegamma.it/self-help-groups-with-women-victims-of-intimate-partner-violence/. Open access • Published Ornelas, José H.; Moniz, Maria João Vargas; Sacchetto, Beatrice; Esposito, Francesca. "Contributi della psicologia di comunità per lo sviluppo dei servizi su base comunitaria per le persone con malattie mentali". PSICOLOGIA DI COMUNITA 1 (2010): 101-109. https://www.francoangeli.it/Riviste/Scheda_Rivista.aspx?idArticolo=40166. Published • 10.3280/PSC2010-001009 Esposito, Francesca; Ljubisavljevic, Biljana; Forteschi, Alessandra; Quinto, Carla R.. "Violenza domestica in Italia: Analisi e prospettive – Häusliche Gewalt in Italien: Analysen und Perspektiven". Olympe: Feministische Arbeitshefte zur Politik 29 (2009): 128-137. http://www.frauenarchivostschweiz.ch/files/olympe/olympe_29.pdf. Open access • Published
Journal issue	Esposito, Francesca; Kellezi, Blerina. "Migrant resistance and acts of solidarity at individual, collective and community level". Community Psychology in Global Perspective 6 1 (2020): http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/cpgp/announcement/view/95. Published • Editor
Magazine article	Canning, Victoria; Esposito, Francesca. "Refugee Women Connect Take Over: International Women’s Day!", Border Criminologies blog, University of Oxford, 2021, https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-criminology/centreborder-criminologies/blog/2021/03/refugee-women. Esposito, Francesca; Caja, Emilio; Mattiello, Giacomo. "'No one is looking at us anymore': Migrant Detention and Covid-19 in Italy", Border Criminologies blog, University of Oxford, 2020, https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-criminology/centreborder-criminologies/blog/2020/11/no-one-looking-us. Esposito, Francesca; Canning, Victoria. "Borders Through Time: Commemorating Lampedusa", Border Criminologies blog, University of Oxford, 2020, https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-criminology/centreborder-criminologies/blog/2020/10/borders-through. Esposito, Francesca; Bosworth, Mary. "Landscapes of Border Control: A Critical Examination of Italian Practices", Border Criminologies blog, 2020, https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-criminology/centreborder-criminologies/blog/2020/02/landscapes-border. Esposito, Francesca. "Discriminazione senza frontiere", Left, 2020 Esposito, Francesca. "A Critical Look at the Italian Immigration and Asylum Policies: Building ‘Walls of Laws’", Border Criminologies blog, 2017, https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-criminology/centreborder-criminologies/blog/2017/07/critical-look. Esposito, Francesca. "Donne Migranti tra Oppressione e Resistenza: Voci dal CIE.", InGenere, 2016, http://www.ingenere.it/articoli/donne-migranti-voci-dal-cie. Esposito, Francesca. "Understanding Migrant Women’s Experiences as a Way to Challenge the ‘Single Story’.", Border Criminologies blog, 2016, https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-criminology/centreborder-criminologies/blog/2016/07/understanding. Esposito, Francesca. "The Messiness of Research: My Experience as a young female researcher at an Italian Migrant Detention Centre.", COMPAS, University of Oxford, 2015, https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/2015/the-messiness-of-research-my-experience-as-a-young-female-researcher-at-an-italian-migrant-detention-centre/. Esposito, Francesca. "Using Images in Research on Immigration Detention: Tensions and Challenges.", Border Criminologies blog, 2015, https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-criminology/centreborder-criminologies/blog/2015/03/using-images.
Report	Esposito, Francesca; Caja, Emilio; Mattiello, Giacomo. 2020. 'No one is looking at us anymore': Migrant Detention and Covid-19 in Italy. https://bit.ly/2XFYIyj. Bondí, Loretta; De Masi, Francesca; Esposito, Francesca; Festagallo, Federica; Gargano, Oria; Quinto, Carla R.. 2016. Inter/rotte: storie di tratta, percorsi di resistenza. http://www.befreecooperativa.org/wordpress/2016/05/interrotte-storie-di-tratta-percorsi-di-resistenze/.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic exhibition

Esposito, Francesca; Giuliani, Gaia. For an intersectional visual counter-narrative of detention. Women in Ponte Galeria (Italy) - Photo exhibition at the International Conference 'Endangered Bodies'. 2018.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/06/29	Keynote speaker in the panel 'Systems of oppression and abolitionist perspectives'	2023 British Society of Criminology (BSC) Conference University of Central Lancashire (Preston, United Kingdom)
2023/06/21	Solidarities and allyship with people on the move: Critical reflections by an academic research group focused on migrant justice	2023 SCRA Biennal Society for Community Research and Action (27th Division APA) (Atlanta, United States)
2023/06/21	Workshop: A Community Psychology for Migrant Justice	2023 SCRA Biennal Society for Community Research and Action (27th Division APA) (Atlanta, United States)
2022/09/24	Exposing the Gendered Violence of Immigration Detention: An Intersectional Feminist Community Psychology Approach	9th International Conference of Community Psychology (ICCP) “Community Regeneration. Bonds and bridges among people and environments” Università Federico II di Napoli (Naples, Italy)
2022/09/22	Workshop: Community Psychology and Migrant Justice	9th International Conference of Community Psychology (ICCP) “Community Regeneration. Bonds and bridges among people and environments” Università Federico II di Napoli (Naples, Italy)
2022/07/15	The good, the bad and the ugly in the Portuguese immigration system: immigration detention and the shadows of migrants' legalisation at times of Covid-19	2022 Global Meeting on Law and Society “Rage, Reckoning, & Remedy” Law & Society Association at ISCTE University Institute of Lisb (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/07/05	Gendered Violence and Border Control: Looking at the British Immigration Detention System	17th European Congress of Psychology ECP2022 “Psychology as the Hub Science: Opportunities and Responsibility” European Federation of Psychology Associations-EFPSA and the Slovenian Psychologists’ Association (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
2022/05/24	[Invited] The gendered harms of border control and immigration detention: the British case	Westminster Criminology Conference School of Social Sciences at the University of Westminster (London, United Kingdom)
2022/01/29	[Invited] Systemic Gendered Violence in the UK Immigration System	Yarl’s Wood Befrienders Annual Conference 2022 Beyon Detention (charity) (Bedford, United Kingdom)
2021/09/23	[Invited] Examining and challenging immigration detention: what role for community psychology?	ECPA webinar series European Community Psychology Association
2021/07/15	[Invited] The gendered harms of immigration detention	To identify and expel: Historical and geographical perspectives on administrative detention University of Cagliari (Cagliari, Italy)
2021/06/03	Migrant (In)Justice and the Role of the Psychological Establishment	11th European Conference on Community Psychology European Community Psychology Association (ECPA); Norwegian Psychological Association (NPA); European Federation of Psychology Associations (EFPA) (online conference, Norway)
2021/01/28	[Invited] Making Gender Visible in Immigration Detention	Centre for Criminology internal seminar series Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford (online seminar)
2020/12/10	[Invited] Community Psychology in the face of new total institutions: the case of migrant detention	Ciclo de Conferências ISPA 2020/2021 ISPA - Instituto de Ciências Psicologicas, Sociais e da Vida (online conference)
2020/11/27	[Invited] Immigration Detention and the Coloniality of Gender	‘Race, Ethnicity and Migration’ seminar series COMPAS - The University of Oxford's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (online seminar series, United Kingdom)
2020/11/26	Gender, Vulnerability and Everyday Resistance in Migration-related Detention	The Gender of Borders GEMIFRO Programme: Gender, Migration and Borders; Convergence Migration Institute; GTM-CRESPPA Paris /MIGRINTER, University of Poitiers; (online conference)
2020/11/13	[Invited] Situação das mulheres detidas durante a pandemia Covid-19	Mulheres na pandemia Covid-19: Forças em situação de vulnerabilidade Forum Refúgio (online seminar)
2020/11/11	Community psychology in gender violence at stake	8th International Conference of Community Psychology. Fostering and Sustaining Solidarities: Communities, Activism, Knowledges and Environment Victoria University (Melbourne, AU) (online conference, Australia)
2020/02	[Invited] Landscapes of Border Control: Mapping border control practices in Italy.	‘No More Detention? ADIF - Associazione Diritti e Frontiere (Rome, Italy)
2020/02	[Invited] Detention and repatriation of migrants in Europe: a comparison between the different Member States of the EU.	Externalization of borders: Practices of detention and denial of the right to asylum ASGI as part of the Sciabaca & Oruka projects (Lagos, Nigeria)
2019/10	[Invited] Making gender visible in migration-related detention.	International Conference “From Conflict and Hate to Healing and Hope. Psychological perspectives on Community and Wellness” University Federico II of Naples (Naples, Italy)
2019/09	[Invited] Detention in Portugal: a silenced debate.	Summer School “Archives of the Present: Racism, Activism, and Remembrance” Centro de Estudos Sociais - CES (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/09	Narrating the gendered life of detention from the inside.	5th Community Psychology Festival University of Brighton (Brighton, United Kingdom)
2019/09	Detention in Portugal: a silenced debate.	7th Biennial Network Conference “Afroeuropeans: Black In/Visibilities Contested” ISCTE- University Institute (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/08	[Invited] A detenção migrante em Portugal: Um debate ocultado.	Panel Session “Acolhimento e Integração de Refugiados: Portugal é o País das Boas Prácticas?” Forum Socialismo 2019 (Bloco de Esquerda) (Porto, Portugal)
2019/01/08	[Invited] Inside Migration-Related Detention: Lived Experiences of Women Detainees.	Seminar Series of the Research Group 'Identities, Cultures, Vulnerabilities. Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS) (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/12	[Invited] Workshop "Intersectional and Narrative Approach to Research. Understanding Migrant Women’s Lived Experiences".	PhD course “Mind, Gender and Language”. University Federico II of Naples (Naples, Italy)
2018/10	[Invited] Researching (at) the border: ‘messy’ stories of research and advocacy work in migration-related detention centres.	Annual Conference “XIII Edição dos Jovens Cientistas Sociais” entitled “Metodologias for a da caixa” Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2018/10	Power in Immigration Detention: Lived Experiences of Women Detainees.	International Conference "SOLIDERE. The Social Life of Deportation Regimes: Interrogating the Implementation Interface". Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences & Institute for Social Science Research (AISRR) of Amsterdam, and Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. (Athens, Greece)
2018/10	Women in Immigration Detention.	International Conference "Endangered Bodies". School of Arts and Humanities - FLUL (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/09	Immigration detention in Portugal: data from the field.	International Workshop “How can Science and Technology Studies help to reflect on the political crisis associated with migrants, refugees and asylum seekers?” Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2018/06	[Invited] Organizing to defend the rights of migrant women in Italian detention centers.	International Conference "Challenging Migrant Detention: Human Rights, Advocacy and Mental Health". SHERPA Research Center and McGill Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry. (Montreal, Canada)
2018/06	Immigration detention in Italy: data from the field.	International Conference “Challenging Migrant Detention: Human Rights, Advocacy and Mental Health”. SHERPA Research Center and McGill Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry. (Montreal, Canada)
2018/05	Looking at the Italian detention field through the eyes of professional actors.	International Symposium “Borders, Racisms, and Harms: A Symposium”. Birkbeck, University of London (London, United Kingdom)
2018/03	[Invited] Power and Resistance in Immigration Detention: Lived Experiences of Women.	Seminar Series "The Long History of Identity, Ethnicity and Nationhood". Stanford University Program, University of Oxford. (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2017/12	Migration-related detention in Portugal: data from the field.	International Workshop “Bordering: a view from Portugal” Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA), and CRIA da Universidade do Minho. (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/12	Gender and migration control: experiences of foreign women detained in Portugal.	International Workshop “Bordering: a view from Portugal”. Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA), and CRIA da Universidade do Minho. (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/10	Living the border: ‘messy’ stories of research and advocacy work in immigration detention centres.	ECPA 10th European Congress. European Community Psychology Association (ECPA). (New Castle, United Kingdom)
2017/07	Experiences of migrant women confined in Italian detention centers.	15th European Congress of Psychology "Psychology addressing society's greatest challenges". European Federation of Psychologists' Associations (EFPA). (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2017/06	[Invited] Lecture "Overview of the Italian Context of Migrant Detention".	Summer Course on Frameworks and Tools for Global Practice (SCWK 7797). Boston College School of Social Work. (Chestnut Hill, MA., United States)
2017/06	[Invited] Seminar "Lived Experiences of Women Detained Inside Italian Immigration Detention Centres".	Seminar Series University of Oxford - Center for Criminology (Faculty of Law). (Oxford., United Kingdom)
2017/06	Migration-related detention centers: two ethnographic case studies.	16th SCRA Biennal Conference "Transformative Community Psychology". Society for Community Research and Action (Div 27 APA) (Ottawa, Canada)
2017/06	"When you are inside you get like stuck”: accounts from people working inside Rome’s migrant detention center.	Neuchatel Graduate Conference of Migration and Mobility Studies. National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) for migration and mobility studies, University of Neuchatel. (Neuchatel, Switzerland)
2016/09	Psicologia Comunitária e contextos de detenção para migrantes indocumentad@s.	Congresso da Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses. Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses (OPP). (Porto, Portugal)
2016/09	Esperienze di migranti trattenuti/e in Centri di Identificazione ed Espulsione.	XIV Congresso Nazionale della Sezione di Psicologia sociale dell’Associazione Italiana di Psicologia (AIP). Associazione Italiana di Psicologia (AIP). (Naples, Italy)
2016/07	Trajetorias e experiências de mulheres em situação de detenção.	IX Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia. Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia (APP). (Faro, Portugal)
2016/06	[Invited] Everyday life in a migration-related detention center: women’s experiences of oppression and resistance.	International workshop on “Critical Prison Studies, Carceral Ethnography, and Human Rights: From Lived Experience to Global Action”. Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL). (Oñati, Spain)
2016/05	Migration-related detention in Italy: the case of Rome's Center for Identification and Expulsion.	6th International Conference on Community Psychology “Global Dialogues on Critical Knowledges, Liberation and Community”. University of South Africa; South African Medical Research Council; Psychological Society of South Africa. (Durban, South Africa)
2015/11	Researching migration-related detention: which challenges for community psychology?	ECPA Seminar “Strengthening Community Psychology in Europe”. European Community Psychology Association (ECPA). (Lisbon, Portugal)
2015/06	Living the border: Ethnography of everyday life in a Italian migration-related detention center.	15th SCRA Biennal Conference "Celebrating 50 Years of Community Psychology". Society for Community Research and Action (Div 27 APA) (Lowell (MA), United States)
2015/06	Doing ecological research in constraining contexts: the challenges of pursuing collaboration in sites of confinement.	15th SCRA Biennal Conference "Celebrating 50 Years of Community Psychology". Society for Community Research and Action (Div 27 APA) (Lowell (MA), United States)
2015/06	A experência da vida quotidiana dentro dos centros de detenção para migrantes considerados em situação de irregularidade: um estudo ecológico.	International Conference “Schengen: People, Borders and Mobility” Instituto de História Contemporânea da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas – Universidade Nova de Lisboa. (Lisbon, Portugal)
2015/06	Quale Psicologia della Salute per quali contesti: esperienze a confronto.	XI Congresso Nazionale SIPSA. Società Italiana di Psicologia della Salute. (Catania, Italy)
2014/12	Ecologia de um centro de detenção para migrantes indocumentados/as.	III Congresso Nacional de Psicologia Comunitaria/I Encontro Nacional de Educação Comunitária. Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicologia Comunitária. (Porto, Portugal)
2014/11	Self-help groups for women survivors of intimate partner violence: an Italian experience.	4th International Conference on the Survivors of Rape. Association of Women against Violence (PT); Rape Crises Network Ireland. (Lisbon, Portugal)
2014/11	La violenza contro le donne in Italia: il lavoro di Befree Cooperativa.	I Jornada de Estudos de Género "As mulheres e a escrita no contexto lusófono e italiano". School of Arts and Humanities - FLUL (Lisbon, Portugal)
2014/09	Migration-related detention policies and their impacts: the case of the center of Ponte Galeria, Rome, Italy.	5th International Community Psychology Conference. UNIFOR - Universidade de Fortaleza. (Fortaleza, Brazil)
2014/09	Analisar os sistemas de detenção para migrantes indocumentados através de uma lente ecológica.	IX Congresso Ibero-Americano di Psicologia/2° Congresso da Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses. Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses (OPP). (Lisbon, Portugal)
2014/03	[Invited] Workshop "Women’s Body: The Images of Women in Italian Television".	Annual Conference entitled "Pornography in Contemporary Times and Spaces". University of Chester (UK) - Department of Social Studies and Counselling. (Chester., United Kingdom)
2013/11	The Phoenicians who fly to Ithaca: discovering the potential of self-help through sourvivors’ narratives.	9th European Conference of Community Psychology. European Community Psychology Association (ECPA). (Naples, Italy)
2013/09	La rappresentazione dell’intervento psicologico nei medici ospedalieri italiani.	XV Congresso Nazionale della Sezione di Psicologia Clinica e Dinamica. Associazione Italiana di Psicologia (AIP). (Chieti, Italy)
2013/05	Dentro e Fuori la Formazione: tra PEI e Laboratorio del Processo Formativo.	X Congress of SIPSA (Italian Society Health Psychology). Società Italiana di Psicologia della Salute. (Orvieto, Italy)
2012/07	Uma Questão de Género.	Post-Graduate Colloquium Estudos Feministas: O Futuro do Passado. Faculty of Literature of the University of Coimbra (FLUC). (Coimbra, Portugal)
2012/06	Enhancing psychological intervention in hospital settings: a glimpse of the italian physicians' representations and demands.	2nd Global Congress for Qualitative Health Research. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. (Milan, Italy)
2012/06	Participatory Action Research in an international cooperation plan: promoting school inclusion in Mozambique.	4th International Conference of Community Psychology. Departament de Psicología Social, Universitat de Barcelona. (Barcelona, Spain)
2011/12	[Invited] Il lavoro di BeFree al Cie di Ponte Galeria.	Roundtable "La tortura in Italia non è reato. Riflessioni attorno ad una legge che non c'è. Per i diritti dentro e fuori le carceri". Comitato Madri per Roma Città Aperta e Il Museo storico della Liberazione (Roma). (Rome., Italy)
2011/11	[Invited] Immigration Detention Centres in Italy.	International Seminar "Migration, Illegality and Gender. Some evidence from Portugal and Italy". Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS). (Lisbon, Portugal)
2011/09	School inclusion of disabled students in Mozambique. A pilot project of Best Practices in class.	5th International Scientific Conference "Special Education and Rehabilitation Today". University of Belgrade - Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation. (Zlatibor, Serbia)
2011/06	Disabilità e inclusione scolastica in Mozambico: una ricerca-azione partecipata nell’ambito di un progetto di cooperazione internazionale.	8th National Conference The prevention in the school and in the community: "Quality in action". SIPCPO - Società Italiana di Psicologia di Comunità. (Padova, Italy)
2011/06	Physical and legal geographies of the trade of Nigerian women in Italy: views and stories from C.I.E.s.	4th European Conference on African Studies - ECAS4. The Nordic Africa Institute (Nordiska Afrikainstitutet). (Uppsala, Sweden)
2011/05	[Invited] Early intervention program for parents of premature infants. Effects of a psychological support in the first weeks of life on child development at 6 and 12 months.	International Symposium "Early intervention and development disorders". Pediatric Association of Macedonia. (Ohrid., Macedonia)
2011/04	[Invited] Storie di Ponte e di Frontiere.	Roundtable "Memorie di Aprile. Nonstop di letture: lettere, documenti, testimonianze. Resistenza (Roma, Italia, Europa), Antifascismo del Ventennio, Deportazione e internamento, Carceraria." Comitato Madri per Roma Città Aperta e Il Museo storico della Liberazione (Roma). (Rome., Italy)
2007/02	[Invited] The students of the Faculty of Psychology of the University Sapienza of Rome.	5th National Conference of the Forum on Mental Health "Se non ora, quando? Liberi dal bisogno. Forti nei diritti." Forum Salute Mentale (Italia). (Paola (CS)., Italy)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/02/01 - Current	The politics of the errants. An ethnography of Western African migrants' subjectivities and struggles across Southern EUrope Supervisor	Migration PhD (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2022 - 2026	Criminalisation of migration in the UK: Women's experiences and perspectives Co-supervisor	PhD in psychology and Criminology (PhD) University of Westminster, United Kingdom
2020 - 2025	Contesting the Borders of Human Rights in Portugal and Italy Co-supervisor	Doctoral Programme Human Rights in Contemporary Societies (PhD) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2021/10 - 2022/06	An exploratory study of the relationship between police corruption and human trafficking in Romania: The perspectives of anti-trafficking NGOs practitioners Supervisor	Psychology and Criminology (Degree) University of Westminster, United Kingdom
2021/10 - 2022/06	Experiences of discrimination suffered by Trans Women within the Criminal Justice System: Analysing the systematic neglect of transphobic hate crimes in the UK Supervisor	Psychology and Criminology (Degree) University of Westminster, United Kingdom
2021/10 - 2022/06	Understanding Domestic Violence in Colombia through an Intersectional Feminist Lens Supervisor	Psychology and Criminology (Degree) University of Westminster, United Kingdom
2021/10 - 2022/06	An exploratory study on the treatment of foreign national women in prison Supervisor	Psychology and Criminology (Degree) University of Westminster, United Kingdom
2021/10 - 2022/06	Inside the fences: Analysing media representations of women prisons in England and Wales in comparison to expert's opinion Supervisor	Psychology and Criminology (Degree) University of Westminster, United Kingdom
2021/10 - 2022/06	Women's views and representations of police work Supervisor	Psychology and Criminology (Degree) University of Westminster, United Kingdom
2021/10 - 2022/06	Hacking: imperative or malicious? Case study of Anonymous Supervisor	Psychology and Criminology (Degree) University of Westminster, United Kingdom
2021/10 - 2022/06	The sensationalism of Black male crimes in British tabloid newspapers: A focus on youth crime Supervisor	Psychology and Criminology (Degree) University of Westminster, United Kingdom
2020/05 - 2021/02	Comportamiento Ocupacional en mujeres para mejorar la Participación Comunitaria en la problemática del recurso hídrico Co-supervisor	Maestría en Psicología Clínica de la Comunidad (Master) Universidad de El Salvador, El Salvador
2020/02 - 2021/02	Experiências e vivências de imigrantes detidos na Unidade Habitacional de Santo António Co-supervisor	Mestre em Psicologia (Master) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2019 - 2020	Reflexiones sobre el componente psicosocial del agua en Guatemala. Co-supervisor	Post-graduate Course in "Community and Clinical Psychology" (Specialization course) Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Guatemala Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
2015 - 2017	La detenzione amministrativa dei migranti. Voci di attori che orbitano attorno al sistema CIE. Co-supervisor of Silvia Scirocchi	Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Facoltà di Medicina e Psicologia, Italy

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2024/05/27 - 2024/05/28	Workshop “Interrogating the border-industrial complex: Rethinking research engagements inside and outside detention and deportation sites” in Verona, 27-28 May 2024. (2024/05/27 - 2024/05/27) Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
2022/01 - 2022/09	9th International Conference of Community Psychology (ICCP) 'Community regeneration. Bonds and bridges among people and environments' (2022/09/21 - 2022/09/24) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
2021/01 - 2021/06	Border Abolition 2021 is a two-day online conference aimed at connecting organising, campaigning, activist research and academic work around border violence, incarceration, abolitionism, racism and other interlocking forms of racialisation. (2021/06/18 - 2021/06/19) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2021/01 - 2021/05	Three-days online Conference entitled 'Safeguarding Human Rights at Europe's Southern Frontier Immigration Detention in Italy and Greece'. By bringing together people struggling against borders in all their forms, this online event seeks to contribute to the limited body of evidence about immigration detention in Greece and Italy and to inspire debate and action. (2021/05/24 - 2021/05/26)	University of Oxford - Border Criminologies, United Kingdom
2020/09 - 2020/12	Online Roundtable entitled 'La detenzione amministrativa in Italia alla prova del Covid-19'. This roundtable aimed to discuss the recently published report by Esposito, Caja and Mattiello on immigration detention in Italy during Covid-19 with scholars and experts in the field. (2020/12/14 - 2020/12/14) Round table (President of the Organising Committee)	University of Oxford - Border Criminologies, United Kingdom
2020/09 - 2020/11	Roundtable entitled 'Migrant (In)Justice and the Role of the Psychological Establishment'. This international roundtable aimed to discuss how to better centre justice in the work with migrant individuals and communities. (2020/11/30 - 2020/12/01) Conference (Other)	Institute of Applied Psychology, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
2020/02/05 - 2020/02/05	Border Criminologies seminar 'Introducing Manus Prison Theory: Knowing Border Violence' (Guest Speakers: Behrouz Boochani and Omid Tofighnian) (2020/02/05 - 2020/02/05) Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)	University of Oxford - Border Criminologies, United Kingdom
2019/06 - 2019/07	Panel session 'Power and resistance in the hydra headed beast of the deportation regime' at the 7th Biennial Network Conference: 'Afroeuropeans: Black In/Visibilities Contested' (2019/07/04 - 2019/07/04) Round table (Co-organisor)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2017/01 - 2017/11	2nd International Conference 'Race, Identity, Globalization. Disavowal, Dominations and Transformations' (2017/11/02 - 2017/11/04) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Centro de Etnopsicologia Clinica, ISPAInstituto Universitário, Portugal
2017/08 - 2017/09	Seminar 'Deter Migrantes em Portugal: Quebrar o Velo de Silêncio' (2017/09/29 - 2017/09/29) Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)	Centro de Etnopsicologia Clinica, ISPAInstituto Universitário, Portugal
2014/09 - 2014/12	1st International Conference 'Housing First: Ending Homelessness' (2014/12/09 - 2014/12/10) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Associação para o Estudo e Integração Psicossocial, Portugal
2013/01 - 2013/11	9th European Congress of Community Psychology 'Beyond the Crisis. Building Community and critical visions to achieve justice, fairness and well-being' (2013/11/07 - 2013/11/09) Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)	European Community Psychology Association (ECPA), United Kingdom
2013/05 - 2013/06	1st International Conference on 'LGBT Psychology and related fields' (2013/06/20 - 2013/06/22) Conference (Other)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2021/07 - 2021/07	Discussant, panel session '"Irregular" migration Workshop	Engaging with intersectional approaches to the study of migration politics Amsterdam Centre for European Studies, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
2021/06 - 2021/06	Facilitator, panel session 'Deportation, its Aftermath and its Contestations'. Seminar	Deportation, its Aftermath and its Contestations Oxford Migration and Mobility Network (MNN), United Kingdom
2020/12 - 2020/12	Chair and moderator of the Roundtable 'Old and new challenges for community psychology' Conference	Community psychology in Slovakia Institute of Applied Psychology, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
2018/06 - 2018/06	Moderator, panel session "Issues in the Institutional Management of Immigrant Detention" Conference	International Conference “Challenging Migrant Detention: Human Rights, Advocacy and Mental Health” McGill Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, Canada SHERPA research center, Canada
2018/05 - 2018/05	Moderator, panel session "Global networks, local apartheid(s)" Conference	International Conference Beyond Planetary Apartheid Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal ISCTE-Instituto Universitario de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Internacionais, Portugal
2017/11 - 2017/11	Moderator, panel session	2nd International Conference “Race, Identity, Globalization. Disavowal, dominations and transformations,” Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2017/06 - 2017/06	Speaker, roundtable "Detention and Deportation: Seeking Justice for Migrants, Asylum Seekers, and their Children" Round table	16th SCRA Biennal Conference University of Ottawa, Canada Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
2015/06 - 2015/06	Speaker, roundtable "Feminist Approaches in Community Psychology". Round table	15th SCRA Biennal Conference "Celebrating 50 Years of Community Psychology". Society for Community Research and Action (Div 27 APA), United States
2014/11 - 2014/11	Moderator, panel session "Estudos de Género" Conference	Conference “I Jornada de Estudos de Género. As mulheres e a escrita no contexto lusófono e italiano” Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2013/11 - 2013/11	Speaker, roundtable "Young community psychologists in a world in crisis: Which challenges, which opportunities? A shared exercise of reflexivity" Round table	9th European Conference of Community Psychology European Community Psychology Association (ECPA), United Kingdom
2013/06 - 2013/06	Discussant, workshop "Gender Community Profiling" Workshop	14th SCRA Biennial Conference Society for Community Research and Action (Div 27 APA), United States
2013/06 - 2013/06	Moderator, two panel sessions	1st International Conference on LGBT Psychology and related fields ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2021/11	Mulheres em situação sem-abrigo sobreviventes de violência: O papel do Projeto Housing First no Recovery de mulheres (Thesis) Main arguer	Beatriz Ortins Valério (Master) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2021/11	Os estereotipos da "mulher brasileira" e a violencia por parceiro intimo (Thesis) Main arguer	Mariana Braz (Master) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2021/10/02	Experiências e vivências de imigrantes detidos no centro de detenção do Porto (Thesis) Main arguer	Daniela Costa (Master) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2021/03/22	Mobilidades e Resistências: Solidariedade Informal e atos de cidadania com refugiados, requerentes de asilo e outras categorias moventes na Europa pós-2015 (Thesis) Arguer	Dora Marina Honório da Costa Almeida Rebelo (PhD) ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Escola de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2021/02/10	Femicidío contributos para a sua visibilidade e prevenção: análise retrospetiva (Thesis) Main arguer	Maria Amália Gradim Lopes Teixeira (Master) Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2016/12	La detenzione amministrativa dei migranti. Voci di attori che orbitano attorno al sistema CIE Thesis Member	Silvia Scirocchi (Master) Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Facoltà di Medicina e Psicologia, Italy

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2022/01 - Current	Italian Association of Psychology (AIP) - Social Psychology Division	Ordinary Member
2017 - Current	Society for the Psychology of Women (Division 35 of American Psychological Association)	Member
2013 - Current	Society for Community Research and Action (Division 35 of American Psychological Association)	Member
2013 - Current	SIPSA - Società Italiana di Psicologia della Salute	Member
2013 - Current	SIPCO - Società Italiana di Psicologia di Comunità	Member
2012 - Current	European Community Psychology Association (ECPA)	Member
2011 - Current	Ordine degli Psicologi del Lazio	Member
2007 - Current	BeFree Cooperativa Sociale contro tratta, violenza, discriminazioni	Member
2017 - 2019	CHÃO - Oficina de Etnografia Urbana	Member

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2020/09 - Current	Associate Director at Border Criminologies (University of Oxford). Border Criminologies is an international network which seeks to better understand the effects of border control and to explore alternatives. Director	University of Oxford Centre for Criminology, United Kingdom
2019 - Current	Member of the Executive Committee of the European Community Psychology Association (ECPA). President Elected for the mandate 2023-2024. Member	European Community Psychology Association (ECPA), United Kingdom
2018 - Current	Member of Immigrant Justice Interest Group (SCRA) Member	Society for Community Research and Action (Div 27 APA), United States
2020/01 - 2020/09	Member of the Editorial Board of Border Criminologies Blog (University of Oxford) Member	University of Oxford - Border Criminologies, United Kingdom
2015 - 2019	Associate Editor, Journal of European Psychology Students (JEPS). Member	EFPSA - European Federation of Psychology Students' Associations, Belgium

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2021/02 - 2021/06	11th European Conference on Community Psychology	European Community Psychology Association (ECPA); Norwegian Psychological Association (NPA); European Federation of Psychology Associations (EFPA)
2021/01 - 2021/06	International Conference 'Border Abolition 2021'	online conference
2019/01 - 2019/11	The Sea in the 20th – 21st Centuries and the “Forbidden Migrations”	Institute of Contemporary History NOVA FCSH

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2018/01 - 2018/11	Consultant for the project 'Upholding the Human Rights Standards at the Unidade Habitacional de Santo António, Porto - UHSA'.	International Organization for Migration - Portugal, Portugal
2012/12 - 2013/04	National Expert, Study on area H of the Beijing Platform for Action - Institutional Mechanisms (funded by EIGE).	Aletta Kennisinstituut voor Emancipatie en Vrouwengeschiedenis, Netherlands

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2021/01 - Current	Annual lectures within the PhD programme Migrations (DeMig)	Migration (Doutoramento)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2022/09 - 2022/12	Module 'Work Experience'	Criminology and Psychology (Bachelor)	University of Westminster, United Kingdom
2022/09 - 2022/12	Module 'Researching Crime and Justice'	Psychology and Criminology (Bachelor)	University of Westminster, United Kingdom
2021/10 - 2022/12	Module 'Gender, Crime and Justice'	Psychology and Criminology (Bachelor)	University of Westminster, United Kingdom
2022/01 - 2022/07	Module 'Immigration, Borders and (In)Justice'	(Bachelor)	University of Westminster, United Kingdom
2022/01 - 2022/06	Module 'Methods of Planning and Evaluation in Community Psychology'	(Mestrado)	Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2019 - 2022	Lab in "Community Psychology Methodologies" (16 hours per year)	Bachelor in "Psychological Sciences and Techniques" (Bachelor)	Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
2019 - 2022	Module 'Migrations and Human Diversity' (20 hours per year)	Master in Community Psychology (Mestrado)	Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas Sociais e da Vida, Portugal
2016/01 - 2020/12	Lab on "Mutual Help" (16 hours per year)	Specialisation in Health Psychology/Psychotherapy School	Sapienza Universitá degli Studi di Roma - Scuola di Specializzazione in Psicologia della Salute (Dipartimento di Psicologia Dinamica e Clinica), Italy
2019 - 2020	Module 'Community-Based Participatory Action-Research' (45 hours per year)	Master in Clinical and Community Psychology (Master)	Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy Universidad de El Salvador, El Salvador
2019 - 2019	Lecturer at the Summer School: Border Crossings: Global Migration Issues, Human Rights & International Relations (one seminar per year, 1h30min)	(Pós-Graduação)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2016/01 - 2019	Module 'Gender-based violence and self-help' (8 hours per year)	Specialisation Course in "Gender-based Violence" (Outros)	BeFree Cooperativa Sociale contro tratta, violenza, discriminazioni, Italy
2017/06 - 2017/07	Module 'Forensic Psychology'	Summer School organized by Oxford Tradition Program at Pembroke College (Oxford University) (Outros)	University of Oxford Pembroke College, United Kingdom

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization	Funding entity
2015 - 2022	Reviewer of proposals for the SCRA Biennial Conference. Evaluator	Society for Community Research and Action (Div 27 APA), United States

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2021/01 - Current	La Camera Blu: Rivista di Studi di Genere (Reviewer) (1827-9198)
2020/11 - Current	Community Psychology in Global Perspective (Editorial Board Member) (e-ISSN: 2421-2113)
2020 - Current	American Journal of Community Psychology (Reviewer) (1573-2770)	Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
2020 - Current	Citizenship Studies (Reviewer) (1469-3593)	Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)
2020 - Current	Rivista di Psicologia di Comunità (Reviewer)	Franco Angeli
2019 - Current	Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (Reviewer) (1469-9451)	Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)
2019 - Current	Criminological Encounters (Reviewer)
2019 - Current	Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais (Reviewer) (2182-7435)	OpenEdition
2017 - Current	Journal of Health Psychology (Reviewer) (1461-7277)	SAGE Publications
2017 - Current	Frontiers in Sociology (Reviewer) (2297-7775)	Frontiers Media SA
2016 - Current	La Camera Blu. Rivista di Studi di Genere (Reviewer) (1827-9198)	FedOAPress (Federico II Open Access University Press)
2016 - Current	International Journal of Peace and Development Studies (Reviewer) (2141-6621)	Academic Journals
2015 - Current	Psychology Community & Health (Reviewer) (2182-438X)	Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information
2015 - Current	Community Psychology in a Global Perspective (Reviewer) (2421-2113)	Università del Salento

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2020 - 2021	College Advisor at St Anthony's College, Oxford University (UK)	Hannah Dickson
2020 - 2021	College Advisor at St Anthony's College, Oxford University (UK).	Cecilia Ghosh
2020 - 2021	College Advisor at St Anthony's College, Oxford University (UK).	Thomas Binnie
2020 - 2021	College Advisor at St Anthony's College, Oxford University (UK).	Yuxuan Liang
2020 - 2021	College Advisor at St Anthony's College, Oxford University (UK).	Xinyi Liu
2020 - 2021	College Advisor at St Anthony's College, Oxford University (UK).	Han Wu
2018 - 2018	Specialisation Internship.	Rosalba Di Terlizzi
2016/09 - 2017/03	Post-graduated Internship.	Elisabetta Cocco
2017 - 2017	Bachelors dissertation. La condizione femminile nel CIE di Ponte Galeria. Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”.	Roberta Block
2017 - 2017	Masters dissertation. L’esperienza degli immigrati irregolari in un Centro di Identificazione ed Espulsione (CIE): uno studio qualitativo. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milano).	Erica Briozzo
2017 - 2017	Masters dissertation. Qualità della vita nei centri di detenzione ed espulsione per migranti: indagine pilota su campione femminile. Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”.	Santolo Mele
2017 - 2017	Masters dissertation. Libertà negate: analisi ecologica di un Centro di Identificazione ed Espulsione per migranti in situazione di irregolarità. Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”.	Valentina Caiazzo
2015 - 2015	Bachelors dissertation. Migranti senza Dimora e C.I.E. Analisi di uno spaccato di marginalità. Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”.	Claudia Capece

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2023/03 - 2023/03	Jury member responsible for evaluating project proposals for the 1st Edition of the APPsyCI Research Projects (APPsyCI Research Projects_23) initiative	ISPA-Instituto Universitário, APPsyCI - Applied Psychology Research Center Capabilities & Inclusion, Portugal
2022/04 - 2022/05	Jury member responsible for assessing dissertations submitted to the SCRA Best Dissertation award	Society for Community Research and Action, United States

Distinctions

Award

2022	SCRA Research Fellow for the biennium 2022-2024 Society for Community Research and Action, United States
2021	Best Dissertation in a Topic Relevant to Community Psychology Award Society for Community Research and Action, United States
2021	Best Doctoral Thesis Award 2021 European Community Psychology Association (ECPA), United Kingdom
2018	National Student Representative Research Award Society for Community Research and Action (Div 27 APA), United States
2017	Researching Borders Masterclass Border Criminologies, United Kingdom Monash University - Border Crossing Observatory, Australia
2017	Janet Hyde Graduate Research Award Society for the Psychology of Women (Division 35 of American Psychological Association), United States
2016	Best poster presented at the XI Congress of the Italian Society for Community Psychology Società Italiana di Psicologia di Comunità (SIPCO), Italy
2015	International Travel Award for participating in the 2015 SCRA Biennial Society for Community Research and Action (Div 27 APA), United States
2013	International Travel Award for participating in the 2013 SCRA Biennial Society for Community Research and Action (Div 27 APA), United States
2011	Best Master thesis on disability issues Universitá degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy

Other distinction

2013	Doctoral Scholarship Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2010	Master Thesis Scholarship Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy