Bridget Anderson
Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow
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Bridget Anderson is Deputy Director and a Senior Research Fellow 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 ‘Doing the dirty work? The global politics of domestic labour’ and is currently writing a monograph ‘Us and Them: the Dangerous Politics of Immigration Controls’. She also co-edited with Martin Ruhs, ‘Who Needs Migrant Workers? Labour Shortages, Immigration and Public Policy.
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.
Selected Publications
Citizenship Studies Special Issue: Deportation and the Boundaries of Belonging (co-edited with Matthew Gibney and Emanueal Paoletti), August 2011
“Migration, Immigration Controls and the Fashioning of Precarious Workers", Work, Employment and Society, 24(2): 300-317, June 2010. Nominated for the Sage Prize 2011
A Need for Migrant Labour? An introduction to the analysis of staff shortages, immigration and public policy. Oxford: OUP (co edited with Martin Ruhs). August 2010
Population, Space and Place special issue: Researching Illegality. (co-edited with Martin Ruhs), May 2010
“Mobilising Migrants, Making Citizens: migrant domestic workers as political agents”, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 33(1), Jan 2010