Social Harm at the Border

Francesca Soliman is Lecturer in Criminology at Edinburgh Napier University UK.

• 1.Introduction 2.Criminology and Migration: A Misguided Relationship 3.Theory, Methodology, and Methods: Doing Zemiology 4.Law and Border: Crime, Security, and Law Enforcement in Lampedusa 5.Hospitality, Racism, and Hierarchies of Victimhood: Humanitarianism as Border Harm 6.The Economic Harms of Lampedusa’s Borderisation 7.At Sea, On Land, In the Air: Environmental Border Harms in Lampedusa 8.Lampedusa’s Border Spectacle: Trauma, Exploitation, and the Harms of Crisis-driven Research 9.Social Harms in Lampedusa: Critically Assessing the Role of Borderisation

The nexus between borders, harm and criminology has harvested complex debates. In this richly conceptual and empirical text, Francesca Soliman addresses substantive gaps so we can better understand and progress discussion and action from a solid zemiological perspective. Essential for anyone interested in the prolific harms of borders, and their human and environmental costs.'Victoria Canning, Associate Professor in Criminology, University of Bristol'Francesca Soliman’s book presents an engaging and vivid account of various social harms that can occur within border spaces. It challenges standard criminological thinking on what constitutes harmful behaviour, who is responsible for it, who is affected by such acts and in what ways, and how we should think and respond to them. The books is eloquent and effortless, and presents an original and indispensable contribution to the field of zemiology.'Milena Tripkovic, Lecturer in Criminology, University of Edinburgh