Enjoyed doing this quite wide ranging @lrb.co.uk podcast with @piercepenniless.bsky.social and @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/4V06...

It’s a rainy morning in California, but our future is bright! ☀️ We are reveling in this incredible win for academic freedom and higher education. www.latimes.com/california/s...

The Moving Labour Collective is pleased to invite applications for our biennial Labour Law Summer Camp, taking place in Malmö, Sweden, from 14–17 June 2026. Applications close on 1 December—please feel free to reach out with any questions!

Absolutely shocking that the Chinese govt pressured a UK university to shut down research about forced labour in Xinjiang and the links to global supply chains. The work of Laura Murphy and her team had been instrumental in getting Chinese companies sanctioned. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

We are delighted to welcome @mdiasabey.bsky.social to our board of trustees🎉 Manoj's long-standing interest in labour rights, and his support for a collaborative Fair Work Agency that values civil society input, makes him an ideal collaborator in our work. www.workrightscentre.org/about-us/our...

We're recruiting a trainee solicitor with a strong sense of justice, who is looking to build a career in a legal profession. After two years, you will gain the required practical experience to fully qualify as a solicitor. Apply or send to a friend🤝 www.workrightscentre.org/publications...

From last week: Job Ad: The Work Rights Centre is recruiting a Policy Manager | Free Movement

If the CPS had done its calculations properly, it would have arrived at a large fiscal *benefit* from recent migration, as I explain here.. docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Initiative for Global Law and Political Economy (iGLPE) website: www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/law/research.... @lpeproject.bsky.social @lpeblog.bsky.social @a-lpe.bsky.social @lpec.bsky.social @ineteconomics.bsky.social @lpeineurope.bsky.social

Wrote a piece on Matthew Goodwin for the latest issue of @prospectmagazine.co.uk. What led a promising academic to throw it all away in the name of becoming a propagandist for the radical right?

Our latest research is now LIVE 🚨 Following revelations that just 3.4% of exploited care workers got jobs via a £16million government scheme, this research uncovers the systemic barriers that stood in the way of success. www.workrightscentre.org/publications...

Tanzil Chowdhury writes for @oxfordcsls.bsky.social on 'Legal Workers and the workplaces of law' about his latest co-edited book (w/ @jamiewoodcock.bsky.social ) frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/legal-worker...

MAJOR UPDATE Thanks to a series of FOI requests, we've found that less than 4% of exploited migrant care workers found new work through a multi-million pound government scheme. (A thread🧵) www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Webpage now with updated ToC! @n-creutzfeldt.bsky.social @cmboulanger.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sociolega...

🚨NEW EVENT🚨 The government just announced new policies to try and reduce migration to the UK To unpack the implications, trade offs & public opinion, join our expert panel @jdportes.bsky.social, Madeleine Sumption, @robfordmancs.bsky.social & @anandmenon.bsky.social ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...

Starmer's language was deplorable. It was grotesquely offensive, accusing people who have brought their gifts to this country of doing "incalculable" "damage"; & politically foolish, in endorsing Farage's claims of an establishment conspiracy. But bad analogies with Powell miss the key problem. 🧵

Full text of UK govt immigration white paper - www.gov.uk/government/p...

The debate around care visas in the political space boils down to people saying stuff like this - we desperately need people. It's a good soundbite but... A significant surge in care visas were issued since 2020 in response to sector demand and yet the problem of shortage has persisted. Why?

Are the EU free movement rules wildly out of step with the new realities of work? My new book, the MARKET CITIZENSHIP ILLUSION answers this by looking at the law in action – and it is available now to *everyone for free*! www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... 🧵on key arguments... (1/10)

Coorganising with QMUnison and @cclas1.bsky.social: Lawyering for Workers' Rights 7 May, 5-7pm, @qmul.ac.uk Mile End Campus & on zoom. Free, but register for your spot: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #WorkersRights #EmploymentLaw #TradeUnionism

Today, @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social argues that while tariffs have long been used to sabotage foreign competitors, Trump’s tariffs are distinctive in having no identifiable constituency within the US capitalist class. They look, instead, like a way to develop patronage networks across the US economy.

Really enjoyed launching this report earlier today. Highly recommended reading for migrant justice advocates, academics, and policymakers-- several practical steps to prevent labour exploitation of migrant workers based on international practice. Dowload: www.workrightscentre.org/publications...

Even *on its own terms*, the logic here is just baffling. Sure, stopping those on Graduate Visas switching to care worker visas will reduce net migration *in one category*. But if care workers can still get visas - and there are still big shortages - why would it reduce net migration overall?

At the Gala dinner in the splendid St George’s Hall Liverpool Professor Joanne Conaghan @joanneconaghan.bsky.social - a true pioneer of feminist legal studies - received the SLSA Prize for Contributions to the Socio-Legal Community 2024: ‘Joanne is a fearless, generous and effective colleague’

🚨New report launch: Safeguarding sponsored workers Join us for policy solutions to address the growing crisis of migrant worker exploitation that has arisen due to sponsorship. With @mdiasabey.bsky.social & a migrant worker with lived experience. www.eventbrite.com/e/report-lau...?

Our CEO Dr Dora-Olivia Vicol told the @resfoundation.bsky.social panel how the UK's current immigration system enables the abuse of people on sponsored visas. It amounts to a national crisis. Thank you @hannahslaughter.bsky.social @mdiasabey.bsky.social @alanmanning4.bsky.social for the discussion.

Really enjoyed the wide-ranging discussion today on migrant workers and precarious employment at the @resfoundation.bsky.social. If you missed the event, you can catch up here: www.resolutionfoundation.org/events/the-c...

I'll be speaking at this Resolution Foundation report launch. Please come along if you will be in London on Monday (14/4)! www.resolutionfoundation.org/events/the-c...

Destroying universities to artificially repress immigration numbers. Is there any better example of how the brutalising work of policing Britain's borders is contagious - a kind of violence that eventually bleeds into the social body stripping away rights and undermining security for everyone?

🚨The deadline for the 2025 ILERA European Congress is approaching: 31st March. Welcoming papers from multiple disciplines; academics/policymakers/practitioners; empirical/conceptual; research at individual, organisational, national, international levels. #ILERA2025 ilera2025.webspace.durham.ac.uk

'Rethinking Migration', the edited collection from @mmbuob.bsky.social is out! A real feat of interdisciplinary collaboration. Availble for free download from the @brisunipress.bsky.social site. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/rethinking-m...

This is the one article to read on contemporary (and future) U.S. politics. Laid out analytically and clearly. There is a hint of optimism (which I do not share but do appreciate).

Enjoyed this wideranging conversation with Bridget Anderson and Janine Dahinden about 'migrantisation', the academic gaze and creating national labour markets through immigration law. @mmbuob.bsky.social Available from most podcast platforms: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Research finds majority of zero-hours contract workers have been with their employer for more than 12 months and one in eight for over a decade, while only seven zero-hours contract workers say they are happy not to have regular working hours www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Judy Fudge's 'Constructing Modern Slavery' is now out! Provides an important global legal geneology of anti-trafficking regulation. @cambridgeup.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Interdisciplinary thinking on migration at its best.

BUIRA Annual Conference 2025: Putting Industrial Relations in their Place – The Geographies of Good Work Call for papers! June 25-27 2025 | PhD Day: June 24 University of Exeter in Cornwall, Penryn Campus, Cornwall www.buira.net/conferences/...

Good to see this intervention from Margaret Beels, Director of Labour Market enforcement, on the need to clamp down on sham self-employment if the overhaul of employment law is to succeed - noting that 'more urgency' is needed, rather than just an ongoing consultation www.ft.com/content/4810...

Our book is out! Get your library requests in for Anti-racism in Britain: Traditions, histories and trajectories, c.1880-present & thank you to all who contributed to the volume, it was a pleasure working with everyone.

Wrapping up another episode of Migration Unboxed - 📸 Bridget in the studio with guests @janinedahinden.bsky.social and @mdiasabey.bsky.social. They've clearly had fun talking about migrantization and the law! Episode 3 drops very soon. Catch up on the MMB podcast here 👉👉 bit.ly/4gTc2a8

Excited to be joining the Law & Political Economy Summer Academy in Rotterdam (2-4 June 2025) this year. Applications now open: lpeineurope.org/wp-content/u...