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About Bridget Anderson

Bridget Anderson is a Senior Researcher and Programme Head at the ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), based at the University of Oxford.

Recent publications include "A very Private Business: exploring demand for migrant domestic workers" European Journal of Women's Studies 2007.She is co-author of Who Needs Migrant Workers? Labour Shortages, Immigration and Public Policy (OUP)

Articles by Bridget Anderson

Monday 1st August

Migration: controlling the unsettled poor

Bridget Anderson, 1 August 2011

Examining the way in which first rulers, and then the state, have coerced the poor in England into mobility and immobility, offers opportunities for developing a new politics of migration, says Bridget Anderson

Sunday 6th March

Britain’s growing reliance on migrant labour: inevitability or policy choice?

Bridget Anderson and Martin Ruhs, 6 March 2011

What drives Britain’s increasing reliance on migrant workers? Public policies have often incentivised – and in some cases left little choice for – individual employers to respond to shortages through the employment of migrant workers, say Martin Ruhs and Bridget Anderson

Friday 20th June

Foreigners: victims or villains?- a political debate

Bridget Anderson, 20 June 2008

When it comes to the salami slicing around which foreigners are deserving and which not, the moral high ground is a treacherous terrain. What is needed is less rhetoric and far more politics.