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Associate Professor Anna Boucher is a global migration expert as it intersects with public policy and comparative politics. She is Chair of the Discipline of Government and International Relations in the School of Social and Political Sciences. Her research covers immigration, gender and racial diversity, inequality and labour market and regulatory change as well as skill selection of migrants. She has written three books on migration that cover skilled immigration, gender diversity and workplace exploitation. The first, Gender, Migration and the Global Race for Talent (Manchester University Press) creates diversity indicators that have been used by international agencies. Her second book with Professor Justin Gest, Crossroads: Immigration Regimes in an Age of Demographic Change (Cambridge University Press, New York) compares immigration regimes across 30 countries and has won multiple awards and nomination for the Stein Rokkan Prize in Comparative Politics, considered the second most prestigious prizes globally in political science. Her third book Patterns of Exploitation: Migrant Worker Rights in Advanced Democracies is out in early 2023 with Oxford University Press (New York) and analyses labour market exploitation of migrants in four countries, building on a database of 1,912 migrants in 907 court cases that she constructed with a team of lawyers. A fourth book (in progress) covers the Holocaust and the creation of a global Jewish diaspora and is co-authored with Dr Joseph Toltz and is under contract with Manchester University Press. She has also written 21 journal articles.
Associate Professor Anna Boucher.
Government and International Relations, School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS)
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