Francesca Soliman

Francesca Soliman serves as a Lecturer in Criminology at Edinburgh Napier University and holds the position of Associate Director at the Scottish Centre for Crime & Justice Research (SCCJR), a collaborative research hub across Scottish institutions.

Her research pioneers the application of zemiology—a radical framework analyzing state-produced social harms—to border studies, specifically examining how border enforcement generates violence and ecological damage. Her doctoral work centered on Lampedusa, Italy, documenting borderisation's devastating impacts on island communities through ethnographic analysis of state-perpetrated harms. She actively develops zemiology as a critical tool to deconstruct governmental narratives about migration and border security.

Through SCCJR leadership, she drives interdisciplinary crime and justice research, emphasizing structural critiques of state power in migration governance and advocating for harm-reduction approaches to border policies.