Deanna Dadusc

Dr. Deanna Dadusc is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the School of Applied Social Sciences. Her research focuses on the criminalisation of social movements in Europe, with a specific focus on the criminalisation of migrants' solodarity and of squatting. She is author of multiple articles and chapters, including “Squatting and the undocumented migrants’ struggle in the Netherlands” (2017) and 'Enclosing Autonomy: The politics of Tolerance and Criminalisation of Squatting (CITY, 2019).

Together with Dr. Eleni Dimou and Prof. Pierpaolo Mudu Deanna is currently co-authoring a book titled ‘’Borders, Repression and Resistance: the criminalisation of migrants’ solidarity’’ (Routledge, forthcoming).

At the University of Brighton she has developed a year-long module titled ‘The Criminology of Borders’ in collaboration with Raphael Schlembach. The module critically addresses issues of migrants’ social exclusion and criminalisation.

Dr. Dadusc is a member of the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE - University of Brighton) and of the Centre for Spatial, Environmental and Cultural Politics. Moreover, she contributes to the organisation of the 'Radical Housing Forum' and related reading group.