Bridget Anderson
Professor of Migration and Citizenship and Deputy Director of COMPAS
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Bridget Anderson is Professor of Migration and Citizenship and Deputy Director at COMPAS, primarily working on projects in the Citizenship and Belonging, Labour Markets and Welfare clusters.
She has a DPhil in Sociology and previous training in Philosophy and Modern Languages. She is the author of ‘Us and Them: the Dangerous Politics of Immigration Controls’ (OUP, 2013) and ‘Doing the dirty work? The global politics of domestic labour’. She also co-edited with Martin Ruhs, ‘Who Needs Migrant Workers? Labour Shortages, Immigration and Public Policy (2010).
Bridget is particularly interested in citizenship, in immigration enforcement (including ‘trafficking’), and in low waged labour, migration and the state. She has worked closely with migrants' organisations, trades unions and legal practitioners at local, national and international level.
DPhil supervisions
Areas of interest for DPhil supervision:
- Citizenship and belonging
- Domestic labour
- Undocumented migration
- Migration and labour markets
- Migration and temporalities
- Immigration controls and enforcement
Current students:
Selected Publications
Anderson, B. (2013) Us and Them? The dangerous politics of immigration control. Oxford: OUP
Anderson, B, M. Gibney and E. Paoletti (2013) The Social, Political and Historical Contours of Deportation, New York: Springer
Anderson, B, (2010), “Migration, Immigration Controls and the Fashioning of Precarious Workers", Work, Employment and Society, 24(2): 300-17. Nominated for the Sage Prize 2011
Who Needs Migrant Workers? An introduction to the analysis of staff shortages, immigration and public policy. Oxford: OUP (co edited with Martin Ruhs). August 2010
Anderson, B., and M. Ruhs, eds. (2010) 'Researching Illegality in Labour Migration: Concepts, Ethics and Policy Nexus', Special Issue of Population, Space and Place, Volume 16 Issue 3 (May/June 2010).