TEDxEastEnd - Bridget Anderson - Imagining a world without borders

Bridget Anderson is a Senior Research Fellow at COMPAS at the University of Oxford. Her work primarily focuses on Migration and the Labour Market, with a particular interest in domestic workers and au pairs, trafficking, immigration enforcement, citizenship and the politics of immigration controls.

She has a DPhil in Sociology and previous training in Philosophy and Modern Languages. She is the author of 'Labour Exchange: Patterns of Migration in Asia', and 'Doing the dirty work? The global politics of domestic labour'. Her most recent book, edited with Martin Ruhs, is 'Who Needs Migrant Workers? Labour shortages, immigration and public policy'.

Bridget is particularly interested in precarious labour, migration and the state. She has worked closely with migrants' organisations, trades unions and legal practitioners at local, national and European level.

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• Imagination
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• Society Beyond Borders

[EnglishDemocratParty]

You mean we try to Deport because of so much EU and Human rights red tape its near on impossible to deport but how quick our country is to allow the US to extradite our own citizens

[EnglishDemocratParty]

you are so right they don't have the same rights THEY HAVE MORE!!!

[legal1983]

Great stuff. Thanks for this very inspiring talk Bridget. 

[bmackeith]

A liberating talk, challenging and plenty to get on with. Thank you.

[freddytoot]

@Crowling

It's a pride horribly misplaced then, and a complete delusion that that borders offer security. Across history borders thresh around like a basket of snakes. Think of what Europe looked like just 20 years ago, with the Balkans completely reconfigured with hundreds of thousands killed or made refugees. Think of Europe in 1930, or 1914 - where did all those secure borders of Austro-Hungaria go? Or the Ottomon Empire? What abour Africa and its borders? Not much security there!

[Cr0wling]

i cannot see where you are coming from. there is pride in borders. and safety economically. without the edge you could lose culture and history as the small disappear into the large.