Cristina Fernández-Bessa

• Universidade da Coruña

In recent years, numerous migrants have reached Europe. During their migration, they have encountered activists and NGOs who have provided rescue operations in the Mediterranean, supported their journeys through Europe, and welcomed them into cities. However, under the guise of controlling illegal immigration, many countries are targeting both migr...

Scholars from various disciplines, geographic locations and research traditions have examined border dynamics – investigating what occurs at borders, how it happens, its origins, consequences and normative implications. This has given rise to the burgeoning field of the “Criminology of Mobility”, an academic discipline focussed on issues such as ci...

Stop and search measures, and policing practices more generally, have rarely made their way into public and political conversations in Spain. However, three phenomena placed policing strategies in the political arena, raising genuine public controversies. Initially, some non-state actors successfully challenged political guidelines targeting potent...

Studies on immigration enforcement and bordered penality frequently depict immigration detention as a system of confinement enforced in closed, relatively opaque facilities geared towards the expeditious deportation of non-citizens. This notion is actually a synecdoche of the diverse forms of containment and the varying, more or less dispensable ro...

The gradual emergence of an immigration enforcement system has apparently given rise to a sort of ‘generational’ transition in the European penal field. This phenomenon has significantly changed the contours of penality, not least by creating a new confinement apparatus—that of immigration detention—to be added to the prison system. This chapter ex...

This article draws on theoretical insights about bordering and citizenship as strategies for socially constructing difference and the scholarship on scalar challenges underlying contemporary bordering to analyze sanctuary cities in the United States and cities of refuge in Spain. We argue that these initiatives challenge and resist restrictive nati...

In managing the coronavirus pandemic, national authorities worldwide have implemented significant re-bordering measures. This has even affected regions that had dismantled bordering practices decades ago, e.g., EU areas that lifted internal borders in 1993. In some national cases, these new arrangements had unexpected consequences in the field of i...

The sorting of individuals is one critical function performed by migration law. These legal regulations are based on dichotomies, such as separating irregular migrants from regular migrants. However, through the multi-scalar management of human mobility, the conflicting coexistence of national and supranational interests decentres these legal binar...

En este trabajo se analiza el nivel de aplicación del reconocimiento mutuo de resoluciones de libertad vigilada en España, hasta el momento muy escaso pese a que el número de beneficiarios potenciales de la medida (condenados extranjeros de nacionalidad comunitaria) es significativo. Para valorar las razones de esta falta de aplicación, se estudian...

La vivencia y experiencia de cruzaruna frontera es distinta según el género.En concreto, la selectividad de los controlesmigratorios implica que la deportación afectea muchos más hombres que mujeres. Apartir del análisis de los datos oficiales sobredetección de personas en situación irregular,detención en los centros de internamiento deextranjeros...

Based on a case study of border struggles within the city of Barcelona since the beginning of the 21st century, this article examines diverse types of border activism. Border activism refers to collective efforts by ordinary people to modify, mitigate or even dismantle a border regime. While several migration and citizenship scholars have analysed...

Over the first decade of the twenty-first century, Spain was a popular destination for international migrations. Successive Spanish governments addressed this phenomenon through a set of sovereign measures, such as selective and racially biased policing, detention in internment centers and deportation. Some key aspects of these migration control po...

Durante la primera década del siglo, España fue un destino prioritario de las migraciones internacionales. Los diversos gobiernos, operando como guardianes de la frontera sur de la UE, han gestionado este fenómeno de forma soberana, mediante actuaciones policiales selectivas, detenciones en centros de internamiento y expulsiones. Algunos aspectos f...

Over the first decade of this century, Spain was a primary destination of international migrants. Successive Spanish governments have addressed this phenomenon by implementing a number of control measures, largely aimed at securing external and internal borders. However, the persistence of the economic crisis has led to the readjustment of the whol...

While the last decade has seen a growth of support for harm reduction around the world, the availability and accessibility of quality harm reduction services in prison settings is uneven and continues to be inadequate compared to the progress achieved in the broader community. This article provides a brief overview of harm reduction in prisons in C...

Este texto es una presentación del monográfico Experiencias de investigación feminista: propuestas y reflexiones metodológicas. En él damos cuenta de las consideraciones y motivaciones principales que nos han llevado a proponerlo, así como de la trayectoria y el proceso de trabajo con metodologías feministas del que formamos parte, el seminario SIM...

Present book collects some of the thoughts developed during the 5 years (2004-2009) of work in the frame of the CHALLENGE project, "The Changing Landscape of European Liberty and Security". The project has related academic knowledge and research with the analysis of the policies and practices of the member States of the European Union [EU] around t...