Professor Bridget Anderson
PhD
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Current positions
Professor of Migration, Mobilities and Citizenship
School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
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Research interests
Bridget Anderson is the Director of Migration Mobilities Bristol and Professor of Migration, Mobilities and Citizenship. Her post is split between the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law and the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Bridget 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 (Oxford University Press, 2013) and Doing the Dirty Work? The Global Politics of Domestic Labour (Zed Books, 2000). She co-edited Who Needs Migrant Workers? Labour Shortages, Immigration and Public Policy with Martin Ruhs (Oxford University Press, 2010 and 2012) The Social, Political and Historical Contours of Deportation with Matthew Gibney and Emanuela Paoletti (Springer, 2013), and Migration and Care Labour: Theory, Policy and Politics with Isabel Shutes (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
Her work explores the tension between labour market flexibilities and citizenship rights, and pioneered an understanding of the functions of immigration in key labour market sectors. Her interest in labour demand has meant an engagement with debates about trafficking and modern day slavery, which in turn led to an interest in state enforcement and deportation, and in the ways immigration controls increasingly impact on citizens as well as on migrants. Bridget has worked closely with migrants’ organisations, trades unions and legal practitioners at local, national and international levels.
Positions
University of Bristol positions
Professor of Migration, Mobilities and Citizenship
School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Subject to Scrutiny
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Building on a collaborative film research project with asylum seekers and refugees with Bristol Refugee Rights scrutinising the effects of asylum policy, this follow-on project aims to produce a film…Managing organisational unit
Department of Film and TelevisionDates
05/01/2021 to 31/03/2021
Queer Muslim Asylum Spaces: Between Righfulness and Rightlessness within Germany's Hetero- and Homonormative Asylum System
Principal Investigator
Description
This project will develop an intersectional approach to the study of queer asylum in Europe focussing on the experiences of people from a Muslim background. Muslim queer, trans, and intersex…Managing organisational unit
School of Sociology, Politics and International StudiesDates
01/09/2018 to 31/08/2020
Scrutinising the immigration system through collaborative filmmaking with refugees and asylum seekers
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
This research project aims to move beyond the narrowly conceived humanitarian depictions of refugees personal struggles and emotional appeals for public sympathy, and will instead use collaborative filmmaking as a…Managing organisational unit
Department of Film and TelevisionDates
06/01/2020 to 31/07/2020
The Migrant Institute: Performing (non)belonging and post-Brexit imaginaries
Principal Investigator
Role
Collaborator
Description
The Migrant Institute is an experimental research & performance project that brings together first-generation migrant theatre-makers and scholars from theatre, migration & mobility studies (MMB), environmental humanities (CEH) and media…Managing organisational unit
Department of TheatreDates
05/05/2020 to 30/06/2020
Publications
Recent publications
17/01/2021Exploring New Avenues for Knowledge Production in Migration Research:
Justice, citizenship and methodological denationalism
Justice and Vulnerability in Europe: an Interdisciplinary Approach
About time too: Migration, Documentation and Temporalities
Paper Trais: migrants, documents and legal insecurity in the global north
Just Deserts
Just Deserts
More Equal than Others: negotiating the boundaries of citizenship
Precarity and Belonging: labor, migration and non-citizenship
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