Maxine Both is a doctoral researcher at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, holding a master’s in political science from McGill University (Montreal). Her research explores the role of civil society and activists in supporting migrants held in immigration detention centres in Canada and Italy and is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Fonds de Recherche du Québec Société et Culture (FRQSC). In particular, she aims to understand how immigration detention centres create “borders” within the state, and how actors form relations of solidarity despite the constraints of these spaces. More broadly, Maxine is interested in the politics of border control, transnational movements, and qualitative methods which bridge empirics and political theory. She is also a research assistant on the DiMiCoP project, The Diffusion of Migration Control Practice: Actors, Processes and Effects. She has been co-coordinator of the Migration Working Group at the EUI and has worked for the Department of Economic and Social Development in Canada (ESDC). She was a visiting PhD at the Montreal Institute for International Studies (CÉRIUM) at the University of Montreal and the Network for the Advancement of Social and Political Studies (NASP) at the University of Milan.
Areas of Expertise
Migration
Borders
International relations
Transnational social movements
Qualitative methods
Canada
Italy
