Francesca Soliman
francesca soliman

Dr Francesca Soliman

Lecturer

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  F.Soliman@napier.ac.uk

   

Biography

I am a lecturer in criminology at Edinburgh Napier University, an associate director of the Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research, and one of the leads of the Border Zemiologies thematic group at the University of Oxford's Border Criminologies network. I am also a member of Napier's Centre for Conservation and Restoration Science and of the Migration and Mobilities Research Network, and an associate fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

My research examines the social harms linked to processes of borderisation, that is, the performance and enforcement of international borders, with a particular focus on its impact on border communities. In my work I seek to further develop the emerging discipline of zemiology as a tool to analyse the wider impact of border policies, but also to advance critical approaches towards states’ roles in constructing and addressing social problems more in general. I have a particular interest in environmental harms, and I am currently leading a research project on raptor persecution in Scotland.

I studied for my BA(Hons) in Criminal Justice (Probation Studies) at the University of Essex, and hold an MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice and a PhD in Law from the University of Edinburgh.

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  • Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy

 

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  • Law and border: punishment in Lampedusa

 

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Social Harm at the Border: The Case of Lampedusa

Book
Soliman, F. (2023)
Social Harm at the Border: The Case of Lampedusa. London: Routledge
This book offers a zemiological approach for understanding border control practices, state power, and their social impact. Drawing on an ethnographic study on the borderisatio...

Preventing harm and the public interest –a zemiological perspective

Presentation / Conference
Dinesson, K., & Soliman, F. (2023, October)
Preventing harm and the public interest –a zemiological perspective. Paper presented at Countering terrorism and violent extremism in the public interest workshop, The Hague, Netherlands
Over the past two decades, counterterrorism in the UK and beyond has been characterised by contentious legal and social developments. One such development has been a marked pr...

What is crime? (SCCJR Learning Resource accompanying video)

Digital Artefact
Soliman, F. (2023)
What is crime? (SCCJR Learning Resource accompanying video). [Video]
This video is part of the SCCJR Learning Resources for Schools which has been created especially for Modern Studies learners. The briefings reflect some of the most popular to...

Raptor persecution in Scotland: a preliminary zemiological analysis.

Presentation / Conference
Soliman, F. (2023, August)
Raptor persecution in Scotland: a preliminary zemiological analysis. Paper presented at SCCJR Punishment and Society ECR Symposium 2023, Glasgow, UK
Following centuries of persecution, most species of bird of prey in Scotland were either extinct or approaching extinction by the 1950s. In recent years, conservation efforts ...

Stolen Time: The Temporal Captivity of Migrants in the Italian Border Regime

Journal Article
Castelli, V., Paynter, E., Sbaffi, G., & Soliman, F. (in press)
Stolen Time: The Temporal Captivity of Migrants in the Italian Border Regime. Modern Italy,
This paper explores the use of captivity in Italy’s response to recurrent “migration crises” at the southern border of the European Union. It first considers the case of Lamp...

Environmental Harms at the Border: The Case of Lampedusa

Journal Article
Soliman, F. (2023)
Environmental Harms at the Border: The Case of Lampedusa. Critical Criminology, 31, 725-741. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-023-09692-x
In this paper I examine authorities’ management of migrant boats on the island of Lampedusa, Italy, as an example of environmental border harm. A danger to trawlers, sunken wr...

States of exception, human rights, and social harm: Towards a border zemiology

Journal Article
Soliman, F. (2021)
States of exception, human rights, and social harm: Towards a border zemiology. Theoretical Criminology, 25(2), 228-248. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362480619890069
Crimmigration, that is, the merging of criminal and migration law, is receiving increasing attention within criminology. However, while crimmigration widens our understanding ...

The landscape of UK child protection research between 2010 and 2014: Disciplines, topics, and types of maltreatment

Journal Article
Soliman, F., Mackay, K., Clayton, E., Gadda, A., Jones, C., Anderson, A., …Taylor, J. (2016)
The landscape of UK child protection research between 2010 and 2014: Disciplines, topics, and types of maltreatment. Children and Youth Services Review, 65, 51-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2016.03.021
This paper draws on the results of a commissioned systematic map of UK child protection empirical research published between 2010 and 2014. It analyses current patterns in chi...

Child maltreatment: pathway to chronic and long-term conditions?

Journal Article
Taylor, J., Bradbury-Jones, C., Lazenbatt, A., & Soliman, F. (2016)
Child maltreatment: pathway to chronic and long-term conditions?. Journal of Public Health, 38(3), 426-431. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdv117
The manifesto Start Well, Live Better by the UK Faculty of Public Health (Start Well, Live Better—A Manifesto for the Public's Health. London: UK Faculty of Public Health, 201...

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