Dorina holds a PhD in Criminology and the Sociology of Law and an MA in Human Rights from the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway.
Her research focuses on global inequality regimes, with a particular interest in the intersections of citizenship status, punishment, and migration controls. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, she draws on perspectives from border criminologies, feminist scholarship, and post-colonial studies.
Dorina has been a visiting research fellow at the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Law and remains an engaged member of the Border Criminologies Network based there.
She has published in international journals such as Sociology, Punishment and Society, Theoretical Criminology, and the International Journal of Qualitative Methods.
Currently, she is collaborating with Dr. Hallam Tuck (City, University of London) on a project exploring the evolution of bordered penality in the US, UK, and Norway.