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Dr Natalie Sedacca's Outputs (4)

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.