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Manoj Dias-Abey

@mdiasabey.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, University of Bristol School of Law | Socio-legal scholar interested in labour law, migration & political economy. Views my own.

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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Enjoyed doing this quite wide ranging @lrb.co.uk podcast with @piercepenniless.bsky.social and @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/4V06...
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On Politics: Inside Britain’s Asylum System
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
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...
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Manoj Dias-Abey @mdiasabey.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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!
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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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...
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UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
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Work Rights Centre @workrights.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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...
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Manoj Dias-Abey | Work Rights Centre
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Work Rights Centre @workrights.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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...
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We’re recruiting a Trainee Solicitor (Immigration and Employment) | Work Rights Centre
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Free Movement @freemovement.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
From last week: Job Ad: The Work Rights Centre is recruiting a Policy Manager | Free Movement
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Job Ad: The Work Rights Centre is recruiting a Policy Manager - Free Movement
Hours: Full time (37.5 hours per week)
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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...
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The long-run fiscal impact of recent migrants
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John Haskell @johnhaskell.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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
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The Initiative for Global Law and Political Economy | Faculty of Humanities | The University of Manchester
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James Bloodworth @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
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?
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Work Rights Centre @workrights.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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...
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Centre for the Critique of Law and Society (CCLAS) @cclas2025.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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...
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Legal workers and the workplaces of law - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies
In this piece for Borderlands, Tanzil Chowdhury (QMUL) discusses a new book project on lawyers' working conditions pursued through a workers inquiry methodology.
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Work Rights Centre @workrights.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
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...
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Less than 4% of exploited care workers helped by UK government scheme
Only 941 of 29,000 exploited migrant workers reported finding new employer through multimillion-pound scheme
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Jen Hendry (文林言) @jenhendry.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Webpage now with updated ToC! @n-creutzfeldt.bsky.social @cmboulanger.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sociolega...
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Socio-Legal Trajectories Across Europe
What are the different institutional, intellectual and biographical trajectories in socio-legal studies, and how can they be compared?This book brings together…
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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🚨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...
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UKICE Lunch Hour: The migration question - UK in a changing Europe
Join our online panel to hear their expert analysis of the implications of the UK government's immigration white paper, as well as the key trade offs.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
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. 🧵
Image from the Financial Times, placing Keir Starmer next to Enoch Powell.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Full text of UK govt immigration white paper - www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Restoring control over the immigration system: white paper
The white paper sets out the government's plans to create an immigration system which promotes growth but is controlled and managed.
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Luke Piper @lukepiper.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
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?
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Alice Welsh @awelsh.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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)
The author holding a copy of the book
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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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
lawyering for workers' rights: an evening co-hosted by QMUCU, QMUnison, and the Centre for Law and Society in a global context
Wednesday 7 May 5-7pm
Law 313 QMUL Mile End campus or online
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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.
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On Tariffs and the Ends of International Economic Law
For decades, the rules of international trade helped cement U.S. firms at the top of global value chains. Should Trump's unapologetic embrace of tariffs be understood as part of a broader loss of…
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Manoj Dias-Abey @mdiasabey.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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...
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Safeguarding sponsored workers: A UK Workplace Justice Visa, and other proposals from a six-country comparison | Work Rights Centre
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
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?
Another area where action is expected is on graduate visas. Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, has uncovered evidence that scores of foreign students who come to Britain on graduate visas then move across to health and social care visas, allowing them to remain in the UK for longer.

Home Office officials have explored closing this loophole by setting a wage threshold for the types of jobs to which foreign graduates can switch.

However, a crackdown could bring criticism from the social care sector, which already has a shortage of workers.
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Socio-Legal Studies Assocation @slsauk.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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’
A woman standing speaking at a lectern in a red dress receiving a prize - there are people sitting in the foreground at a table with glasses and bottles. The surroundings are ornate with gold and marble - the setting is St George’s Hall in Liverpool. A woman standing smiling at a lectern in a red dress receiving a prize - there are people standing  in the foreground taking her photo. The surroundings are ornate with gold and marble - the setting is St George’s Hall in Liverpool. The woman is Professor Joanne Conaghan
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Work Rights Centre @workrights.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
🚨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...?
Report launch> Safeguarding sponsored workers: A UK \Workplace Justice Visa and other proposals from a six-country analysis. Tuesday 29 April 3pm on Zoom.
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Work Rights Centre @workrights.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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.
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Manoj Dias-Abey @mdiasabey.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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...
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The challenges for Britain's migrant workforce • Resolution Foundation
What are the labour market experiences of foreign-born workers? How do systemic issues allow poor practices to persist? What are the wider implications for the UK labour market? And how can policy – i...
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Manoj Dias-Abey @mdiasabey.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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...
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The challenges for Britain's migrant workforce • Resolution Foundation
What are the labour market experiences of foreign-born workers? How do systemic issues allow poor practices to persist? What are the wider implications for the UK labour market? And how can policy – i...
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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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?
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Prof Deirdre McCann @profmccann.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
🚨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
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14th ILERA European Congress - ILERA2025
14th ILERA European Congress Welcome to Durham and the 14th ILERA European Congress taking place between 10 and 12 September 2025. Abstract submission now open. Submit abstract here. “Navigating chall...
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Manoj Dias-Abey @mdiasabey.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
'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...
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Rethinking Migration
Rethinking Migration - Challenging Borders, Citizenship and Race; This collection investigates how to rethink migration without reinforcing it as a problematic subject. The book illustrates that conce...
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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).
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The Path to American Authoritarianism
What comes after democratic breakdown.
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Manoj Dias-Abey @mdiasabey.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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...
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How do people become 'migrants'?
Podcast Episode · Migration Unboxed · 02/03/2025 · 31m
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Natalie Sedacca @nataliesedacca.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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...
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Most zero-hours workers ‘with same employer for more than a year’
TUC says 1m people are on the insecure contracts – with 130,000 still not having full rights after 10 years
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Manoj Dias-Abey @mdiasabey.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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...
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Constructing Modern Slavery
Cambridge Core - Political Economy - Constructing Modern Slavery
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Manoj Dias-Abey @mdiasabey.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Interdisciplinary thinking on migration at its best.
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Huw Thomas @huwthomas.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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/...
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BUIRA 2025: Putting Industrial Relations in their Place - The Geographies of Good Work - Buira
June 25-27 2025  |  Pre-conference PhD Day: June 24 University of Exeter in Cornwall, Penryn Campus, Cornwall Submit your abstracts […]
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Natalie Sedacca @nataliesedacca.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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...
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UK’s labour market tsar calls for crackdown on bogus self-employment
‘More urgency’ needed on workers’ rights and resourcing of new fair work agency, says Margaret Beels
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Saffron East @saffroneast.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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.
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Migration Mobilities Bristol @mmbuob.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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
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Manoj Dias-Abey @mdiasabey.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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...
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