CICS.NOVA

Collaborators

Ana Ballesteros-Pena

Research Group:

2: Citizenship, Work and Technology

Research Team:

Rights, Policy and Justice

Online Profile:

Curriculum

E-mail:

ana.ballesteros@utoronto.ca

Ana Ballesteros-Pena is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies University of Toronto (Canada) and the ECRIM Research Group, Faculty of Law, University of A Coruña (Spain) with the project Governmigration. Her current research analyzes immigration detention in Canada and Spain. She also holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Barcelona in Spain. Her PhD research examined female incarceration in the Spanish penitentiary system with specific focus on the analysis of prison policies implemented over the past decade. She has been an Academic Visitor at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford (UK), and at the Gender and Politics (GEYPO) Research Group, Faculty of Political Science and Sociology, University Complutense of Madrid (UCM) (Spain). She is member of Border Criminologies international network and of the Working Group on Gender, Crime and Justice, European Society of Criminology.

Research Interests:

Punishment. Gender. Prisons. Migration and border control. Immigration detention.