Bridget Anderson is a Senior Researcher at COMPAS, primarily working on Migration and the Labour Market cluster - Link
She has a DPhil in Sociology and previous training in Philosophy and Modern Languages. She is the author of ‘Labour Exchange: Patterns of Migration in Asia’, and ‘Doing the dirty work? The global politics of domestic labour’.
Bridget is particularly interested in precarious labour, migration and the state. She has worked closely with migrants' organisations, trades unions and legal practitioners at local, national and European level.
Selected Publications
Anderson, B. and R. Andrijasevic, 2008, Sex, slaves and citizens: the politics of anti-trafficking in Soundings, Winter, Issue 40
2008, "A Need for Migrant Labour? The micro-level determinants of staff shortages and implications for a skills based immigration policy". A paper prepared with Martin Ruhs for the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC). Click here to download the paper [external links].
2008, Foreigners: Victims or Villains? A political debate, OpenDemocracy, (20th June)