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Overview

Bridget Anderson is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research is situated primarily within the field of Social Sciences, with significant work in the subfields of Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions, Demography, Economics and Econometrics, and Epidemiology.

Their scholarly output focuses on several interrelated topics including:

  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

Bridget Anderson has published notable research articles across a variety of academic journals. Some of the recent papers include:

  • "Rethinking labour migration: Covid-19, essential work, and systemic resilience" (2021) in Comparative Migration Studies
  • "Blurred boundaries: fantasy citizenship, the worker citizen and mobility controls" (2024) in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
  • "Demand for migrant workers: institutional system effects beyond national borders" (2023) in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

In addition, their work has appeared in other venues, such as:

  • Swiss Journal of Sociology
  • JAMA
  • Humanity

Frequent collaborators in Bridget Anderson's research include:

  • Martin Ruhs
  • Friedrich Poeschel
  • Joshua A. Barocas
  • Samantha K. Nall
  • Sarah Axelrath

Their research contributions provide insight into issues related to labor migration, systemic resilience in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the intersections of citizenship, mobility, and labor dynamics. The topics also cover health and social implications of migration and displacement, including homelessness and associated health effects.

Best Publications

  • Doing the Dirty Work?: The Global Politics of Domestic Labour

    Bridget Jane Anderson

  • Migration, immigration controls and the fashioning of precarious workers:

    Bridget Anderson

  • Us and Them? : The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Control

    Bridget L. Anderson

  • Who Needs Migrant Workers?: Labour Shortages, Immigration, and Public Policy

    Martin Ruhs;Bridget Anderson

  • Fair Enough? Central and East European Migrants in Low-Wage Employment in the UK

    Bridget Anderson;Martin Ruhs;Ben Rogaly;Sarah Spencer

  • Citizenship, deportation and the boundaries of belonging

    Bridget Anderson;Matthew J. Gibney;Emanuela Paoletti

  • A Very Private Business

    Bridget Anderson

  • Semi-compliance and illegality in migrant labour markets: an analysis of migrants, employers and the state in the UK

    Martin Ruhs;Bridget Anderson

  • New directions in migration studies: towards methodological de-nationalism

    Bridget Anderson

  • Is Trafficking in Human Beings Demand Driven?: A Multi-Country Pilot Study

    Bridget Anderson;Julia O’Connell Davidson

  • Sex, slaves and citizens: the politics of anti-trafficking

    Bridget Anderson;Rutvica Andrijasevic

  • Who Needs Migrant Workers

    Martin Ruhs;Bridget Anderson

  • Editorial: Why No Borders?

    Bridget Anderson;Nandita Sharma;Cynthia Wright

  • Researching illegality and labour migration

    Bridget Anderson;Martin Ruhs

  • Mobilizing migrants, making citizens: migrant domestic workers as political agents

    Bridget Anderson

  • Migrant workers: who needs them?: a framework for the analysis of staff shortages, immigration, and public policy

    Bridget Anderson

  • Migrants' Lives Beyond the Workplace: The Experience of Central and East Europeans in the UK

    Sarah Spencer;Martin Ruhs;Bridget Anderson;Ben Rogaly

  • Migration and Care Labour: Theory, Policy and Politics

    Bridget Anderson;Isabel Shutes

  • Who Counts in Crises? The New Geopolitics of International Migration and Refugee Governance

    William Allen;Bridget Anderson;Nicholas Van Hear;Madeleine Sumption

  • Forced labour and migration to the UK

    Bridget Anderson;Ben Rogaly

  • Migration, Time and Temporalities: Review and Prospect. COMPAS Research Resources Paper

    Melanie Griffiths;Alasdair Rogers;Bridget Anderson

  • Towards a new politics of migration

    Bridget Anderson

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