Abstract
How do non-citizen women experience the rationales, processes, and practices of bordered penality and welfare in Denmark and Norway? By focusing on women’s subjectivities in interaction with state power at different sites, this dissertation provides an empirical perspective to existing legal and institutional accounts of bordered penality and precarisation. It contributes to the study of punishment, and feminist criminological scholarship more broadly, by providing a view of the experience of incarceration, deportability, and precarisation, at the intersection of various social inequalities, with a focus on gender and citizenship status, through a contextualised analysis. The dissertation points to tensions between bordered penality in Denmark and Norway and the two states’ legal and political commitment to women’s rights and protection. The contemporary citizenship regime and its logic of differentiation are expressed through punishment, precarisation, and deportation, structuring non-citizen women’s experiences in Denmark and Norway – bordered penality is also gendered.
List of papers
Article 1: Damsa D & Franko K (2022). ‘Without papers I can’t do anything’ – The neglected role of citizenship status and ‘illegality’ in intersectional analysis. Sociology. 1-17. doi: 10.1177/00380385221096043. The article is included in the thesis. Also available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385221096043 |
Article 2: Damsa D (under review). Punished and banished – Non-citizen women’s experiences in a Danish prison. First published: 27 September 2023, The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice. doi: 10.1111/hojo.12544. The article is included in the thesis. Also available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12544 |
Chapter 1: Damsa, D (2019). Migrants’ resilience in a Norwegian welfare prison. In: Bendixsen, S. & Wyller, T. (eds) Contested Hospitalities in a Time of Migration: Religious and Secular Counterspaces in the Nordic Region. Abingdon: Routledge. Pp. 162-175. ISBN 9781000710014. The chapter is not available in DUO due to publisher restrictions. |
Article 3: Damsa D (2021). ‘This is not what I signed up for’ – Danish prison officers’ attitudes towards more punitive penal policies. Punishment & Society. 1-19. doi: 10.1177/14624745211068870. The article is included in the thesis. Also available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/14624745211068870 |
Article 4: Damsa D & Ugelvik T (2017). A difference that makes a difference? Reflexivity and researcher effects in an all-foreign prison. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. 16(1), 1-10. doi: 10.1177/1609406917713132. The article is included in the thesis. Also available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406917713132 |