Andriani Fili

Dr Andriani Fili

Small Group Project 2024-25

Illustrating the Hidden Architecture of Immigration Detention

The lack of transparency surrounding immigration detention centres has fostered conditions that silence and conceal human rights violations. This interdisciplinary project, focusing on Greece, aims to address this knowledge gap through an ambitious audio-visual and 3D modelling initiative that explores the hidden architecture of immigration detention. This project builds upon a soon to be published collaborative database, Detention Landscapes, developed by the PI in collaboration with civil society actors in Greece. The database incorporates testimonies, reports, and images from individuals with lived experience of detention.

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Areas of interest

Criminology Immigration Incarceration Greece Resistance Healthcare

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FG10

Biography

Andriani Fili is a Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford. Her PhD research was the first national study of immigration detention centres in Greece, mapping the immigration detention system and recording resistance mobilized against it. Her current research project explores the role and impact of health provision on people inside immigration detention centres and after release in Greece. Drawing on a range of sources of evidence, it further examines the continuity of experiences of medical care across and beyond these spaces and through time, tracing connections between zones of quarantine and confinement for those deemed undesirable in the country. In Greece she is also involved in countermapping activitiesof migrant containment spaces in collaboration with local civil society actors.

Biographical details correct as of 09.07.25