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Dr Natalie Sedacca's Outputs (18)

Matchmakers: Placement Agencies and Digital Platforms in the UK Childcare Market (2024)
Journal Article
Muldoon, J., Sedacca, N., & Apostolidis, P. (online). Matchmakers: Placement Agencies and Digital Platforms in the UK Childcare Market. Work in the Global Economy, https://doi.org/10.1332/27324176Y2024D000000026

Households seeking childcare often turn to labour market intermediaries such as placement agencies and digital platforms to facilitate their search. This article draws on a qualitative research project to examine the respective roles played by agenci... Read More about Matchmakers: Placement Agencies and Digital Platforms in the UK Childcare Market.

UK agriculture and care visas: worker exploitation and obstacles to redress (2024)
Report
Thiemann, I., Alexandris Polomarkakis, K., Sedacca, N., Dias-Abey, M., Jiang, J., Boswell, C., …Priyatna, E. (2024). UK agriculture and care visas: worker exploitation and obstacles to redress. Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre

This is a summary of research conducted by five academics (led by Primary Investigator Dr Inga Thiemann) in partnership with four non-governmental organisations (NGOs): Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX), Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants... Read More about UK agriculture and care visas: worker exploitation and obstacles to redress.

Migrant Work, Gender, and the Hostile Environment: A Human Rights Analysis (2024)
Journal Article
Sedacca, N. (2024). Migrant Work, Gender, and the Hostile Environment: A Human Rights Analysis. Industrial Law Journal, 53(1), 63-93. https://doi.org/10.1093/indlaw/dwad034

This article addresses work-related and gendered harms of the ‘hostile environment,’ a set of measures implemented through the Immigration Acts of 2014 and 2016, which aims to make life in the UK impossible for irregular migrants. The hostile environ... Read More about Migrant Work, Gender, and the Hostile Environment: A Human Rights Analysis.

Rationale and recommendations on decolonising the pedagogy and curriculum of the Law School at the University of Exeter (2022)
Journal Article
Ohana, N., Barazi, T., Barrett, D., Bedeau, J., Bhuckory, P., Bosch, G., Braham, J., Coombs, C., Gola, S., Jaber, N., Hailemariam, H., Lambert, Z., Lawrence, R., Loder, L., Marshall, E., Matt, T., Nousia, K., Ozsoy, E. C., Phiri, T., Rogge, M., …Walsh, K. (2022). Rationale and recommendations on decolonising the pedagogy and curriculum of the Law School at the University of Exeter. The Law Teacher, 56(4), 536-551. https://doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2022.2140512

This report outlines the rationale behind and recommendations on the steps that need to be taken towards decolonising the Law School's pedagogy and curriculum. The reason is that we see decolonisation as not something that can be achieved but as an o... Read More about Rationale and recommendations on decolonising the pedagogy and curriculum of the Law School at the University of Exeter.

Domestic Work and the Gig Economy (2022)
Book Chapter
Sedacca, N. (2022). Domestic Work and the Gig Economy. In V. De Stefano, I. Durri, C. Stylogiannis, & M. Wouters (Eds.), A Research Agenda for the Gig-Economy and Society (149-166). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800883512.00016

The provision of cleaning, childcare and other housework through online platforms is an increasingly important sector. This chapter identifies key challenges domestic work in the gig economy creates for workers' rights protections and proposes an age... Read More about Domestic Work and the Gig Economy.

Domestic Workers, the ‘Family Worker’ Exemption from Minimum Wage, and Gendered Devaluation of Women’s Work (2022)
Journal Article
Sedacca, N. (2022). Domestic Workers, the ‘Family Worker’ Exemption from Minimum Wage, and Gendered Devaluation of Women’s Work. Industrial Law Journal, 51(4), 771–801. https://doi.org/10.1093/indlaw/dwac005

Domestic workers, who work in private households carrying out tasks such as cooking, cleaning, and care for children and the elderly, are overwhelmingly women and often from migrant and/ or ethnic minority backgrounds. This article examines a stark e... Read More about Domestic Workers, the ‘Family Worker’ Exemption from Minimum Wage, and Gendered Devaluation of Women’s Work.