Papers by Bridget Anderson
Palgrave Macmillan eBooks, Jul 25, 2014
Journal of International Migration and Integration, Aug 5, 2011
Contents: Preface Introduction Transitional rules in the accession treaties and national implemen... more Contents: Preface Introduction Transitional rules in the accession treaties and national implementation throughout the EU EU8 migrants' access to the UK labour market during the transitional period De-skilled and devalued: labour market status and experience in the UK Facilitating family life in the aftermath of post-accession migration to the UK Citizenship in the context of EU enlargement: CEE migrants as Union citizens Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index.
Duke University Press eBooks, Jul 17, 2020
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Nov 9, 2011
Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, 2017
WorkPackage 10 Balancing citizenship of insiders and outsiders Lead Beneficiary UOXF Disseminatio... more WorkPackage 10 Balancing citizenship of insiders and outsiders Lead Beneficiary UOXF Dissemination Level PU Change log Version Date amended by changes 1.0 24.05.2016 Bridget Anderson Final deliverable sent to coordinator after implementing review comments. Partners involved number partner name People involved
Oxford University Press eBooks, Mar 21, 2013
Oxford University Press eBooks, Mar 21, 2013
The Capability Approach/Capability Theory (CA/T) makes the normative claim that freedom to achiev... more The Capability Approach/Capability Theory (CA/T) makes the normative claim that freedom to achieve well-being is of primary moral importance. It has made significant contributions in its original field of Development Studies and has also been used in other fields as a framework to assess the relation between well-being and socioeconomic contexts, to inform policies for social change. CA/T's move from a focus only on resources (redistribution) reveals how the relation between the elements of participation and freedom in the achievement of well-being becomes contested. This paper will use two examples from empirical research conducted with disabled people, their personal assistants and care workers to explore how attention to participation, connection, and affiliation can further develop CA/T.
The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice, Feb 1, 2012
This article discusses employer demand for migrant labour. We argue that the UK's growing relianc... more This article discusses employer demand for migrant labour. We argue that the UK's growing reliance on migrant workers cannot simply be explained by lax immigration controls or migrants' superior 'work ethic'. It arises from the complex interactions between institutions, public policies and social relations. A wide range of public policies have contributed to a growing demand for migrant workers in the UK 24
ProQuest eBooks, 1998
Domestic work in private households is, together with prostitution, the most significant employer... more Domestic work in private households is, together with prostitution, the most significant employer of newly arrived female migrants. This thesis examines the phenomenon of the racialisation of paid domestic labour in the European Union, and begins to outline the challenges this poses to feminism, political theory and community organisations. At an empirical level it begins to map the employment of migrant women in domestic work in Europe, to describe the work they perform, their living and working conditions and their employment relations. At a theoretical level it is necessarily concerned with the inadequacy of conceptual tools designed to describe more "traditional" forms of employment (i.e. traditionally of concern to white male sociologists) or to describe the experience of "women" within the domestic sphere (i.e. the experience of white middle class women). The paid domestic worker, even when she does the same task as the wife/daughter/mother, is differently constructed, for she is expressing and reproducing the female employer's status by serving as her "foil". I argue that it is the worker's "personhood" rather than their labour power, which the employer is attempting to "buy". As well as labour cost and supply, racist stereotypes and the reproduction of such stereotypes are important in determining demand for domestic workers, and this results in a racist hierarchy which constructs some women as being particularly "suitable" for domestic work. Migrant domestic workers' relation to the state encourages and reinforces the racialisation of domestic work and personal dependence on employers. While the applying of employment contracts to domestic workers may seem to offer some way forward there are many difficulties associated with applying employment contracts to the private domain, both theoretically and in workers' real experiences
Journal of World-Systems Research, Aug 14, 2021
Nandita Sharma's ambitious and complex book Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of... more Nandita Sharma's ambitious and complex book Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants (2020) lies at the intersection of historical, legal, political, and sociological scholarship. It is also the work of an activist scholar seeking to make a political intervention. At the heart of contemporary concerns about human mobility lies a perceived and harnessed tension between embedded "natives" and out of place "aliens," or, as she calls them, people of a place and people out of place. The precise terminologies depend on context, and differentiation can be religiously, ethnically, or racially expressed; but the most widely accepted difference is between "national-natives" to whom states have obligations, and "migrants" who reside at best on sufferance. Sharma's book traces the emergence of the figure of the "migrant" and its separation from the "native" that produces the "migrant" as invader, leaving the majority
discontent-with-austerity-and-support-for-migrants/ Connecting discontent with austerity and supp... more discontent-with-austerity-and-support-for-migrants/ Connecting discontent with austerity and support for migrants To what extent has there been a shift in attitudes toward asylum seekers in the UK during the refugee crisis? Bridget Anderson writes that in the wave of support for welcoming refugees there has been a surprising silence about the situation of asylum seekers already in the UK. She argues that if we are to avoid a competition between marginalised and impoverished groups it is necessary to make the case that better services for Syrian arrivals must mean better services for everybody.
Oxford University Press eBooks, Oct 30, 2014
American Behavioral Scientist, Apr 24, 2012
This article considers the argument that immigration controls can be protective of migrants/victi... more This article considers the argument that immigration controls can be protective of migrants/victims of trafficking. It examines how the avoidance of “harm” has become central to immigration enforcement and considers the implications of this with particular reference to children. It argues that the language of protection and harm risks inscribing the state as an appropriate protector, not just for children, but for at-risk migrants more generally. This is deeply problematic when, through immigration controls and practices, the state is implicated in constructing this vulnerability.
Oxford University Press eBooks, Aug 26, 2010
This chapter provides a comprehensive conceptual framework for evaluating employer demand for mig... more This chapter provides a comprehensive conceptual framework for evaluating employer demand for migrant labour in the UK. More generally, the framework can be used for discussing the relationship between labour shortages, immigration, and public policy. It outlines relevant sorts of questions to ask when analysing labour shortages and immigration policy. Four key issues that, the authors argue, are fundamental to the analysis, are discussed: (1) the characteristics, dimensions, and determinants of employer demand for labour (i.e. what are employers looking for?); (2) the characteristics of and segmentations in labour supply (i.e. who does what?); (3) employers' recruitment practices and use of migrant labour (i.e. how and whom do employers recruit?); and (4) immigration and alternative responses to perceived staff shortage (i.e. a need for migrant labour?)
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2008
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Papers by Bridget Anderson