Giulia Fabini

Giulia Fabini is a Research fellow in criminology at the Department of Legal Studies DSG, University of Bologna, and teaches Criminology of the borders at the Department of Political and social sciences. She holds a PhD in "Law and society" from the University of Milan, and was student researcher at the Center for the study of law and society at UC Berkeley in 2014. Currently, she is the assistant editor for the European journal of criminology and a member of the editorial board of "Studi sulla questione criminale", for which she also coordinates the blog.  Her research focuses on Border control and the interaction between migrants and the police, migrants struggles and immigration courts, but she is also interested in the prison system, especially from a gender perspective. As an activist, she is an observer of Antigone Association and has the authorization to visit prisons in Emilia-Romagna region. She is member and co-founder of the Translocal Law research group and she is a member of the European group for the study of deviance and social control, the American society of criminology, the European society of criminology, and the Law and Society Association. Her most recent publication is 'Internal bordering in a context of undeportability: Border performances in Italy', published in Theoretical Criminology.