Bridget Anderson

Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford

Bridget Anderson is professor of migration and citizenship and research director at the University of Oxford's Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS).

Anderson has a particular interest in labor migration, irregular migration, and trafficking, and is interested in the continuities and discontinuities between migrant and national low-waged labor. She is the author of Doing the Dirty Work? The Global Politics of Domestic Labour and Us & Them? The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Controls.

Featured Work

MAY 4, 2016 Podcast

Us and Them? Bridget Anderson on Migrants and Nation-States

Underlying people's economic fears about migrants taking their jobs are much deeper anxieties about nationality, culture, and race, says Bridget Anderson, professor of migration and ...