Behind Bars, Italy’s Securitarian Project of Debilitation Takes Shape
Giulio Gonella and Richard Lee Peragine
The prosecution of a Kurdish-Iranian feminist activist reveals a wider transformation in Italian state power. Throughout Maysoon Majdi’s journey through Italy’s carceral system, punitive legislation, overcrowded prisons, and expanding carceral policies reveal themselves as the factors reshaping the treatment of migration and political opposition in contemporary Italy.