Maxine Both

Maxine is a Ph.D. Researcher in the Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS) at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. She is a research assistant on the DiMiCoP project, The Diffusion of Migration Control Practice. Actors, Processes and Effects and co-coordinator of the Migration Working Group at the EUI. Her Ph.D. project explores the role of civil society organizations and activists in supporting migrants held in immigration detention in Canada and Italy and is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Fonds de Recherche du Québec Société et Culture (FRQSC). Using ethnographic methods, she aims to understand how immigration detention centres create “borders” within the state, and how actors use strategies to form relationships of solidarity across walls despite the constraints of these spaces. She obtained her Masters (M.A.) degree in Political Science from McGill University in 2021 and has worked for the Department of Economic and Social Development in Canada.