Dr. Veronika Nagy is an Assistant Professor in Criminology at the Law Department of Utrecht University. Her research interest includes surveillance, digital inequality with a focus on the connection between mobility and technology, criminalisation and digital self-censorship. She has conducted research on specific forms of securitisation, financial surveillance, ethnic mobility, human trafficking, and digital profiling (exploitation of workers, forced criminal activities and forced labour, trafficking of children). As an anthropologist working in the field of criminalization of migration, her research focuses on the transformative power of state-corporate security technologies and she analyses the societal implications of surveillance in different geopolitical contexts. Her ethnographic research is primarily based in Central Europe. She also worked as International Research Fellow at the University of Milan and at the Policing Doctorate School (NUPS) in Budapest, where she coordinated PhD researchers. She is a Board member of the Dutch Society of Criminology and coordinator of the RENFORCE research building Block, Citizenship and Migration. She is also one of the core member of the Institutions for Open Societies and Utrecht Centre for Global Challenges Contesting Governance Platform.
Her latest empirical research Virtual Asylum is part of her Gerda Henkel Fellowship exploring Self-censorship practices of refugees on mobile applications in different stages of their mobilities. Before that she conducted extensive ethnographic research about minorities subjected to monitoring practices of tax authorities and her book, 'Crime Prevention, Migration Control and Surveillance Practices: Welfare bureaucracy and mobility deterrent' has been published with Routledge (2018). She edited several special issues, books and published in different disciplines, including the latest Routledge Handbook on Online Deviance.
Links
- Bestuur Nederlandse Vereniging Criminologie
- Coordinator Building Block Citizenship and Migration
- Core Team member - IOS platform Contesting Governance
- https://uu.academia.edu/VeronikaNagy
- Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Commission member
- International Research Fellow at the University of Milan - Information Society Law Center