Sophie Henderson

Principal Researcher @mbiegovtnz 🌏 international migration, refugee policy, human rights, migrant exploitation & people trafficking | own views

[Sophie Henderson @Soph__Henderson]

🪄New paper: The realities of return migration: Reintegrating women migrant domestic workers in Sri Lanka https://t.co/N8XrGjRU0U #SriLanka #returnmigration #reintegration #domesticworkers

[Cambridge UP - Anthropology & Sociology @CUP_Anthro_Soc]

New Cambridge Element Emigration States by Matt Withers is now free to read for 4 weeks!
https://t.co/9FBfMuXFQQ
#cambridgeelements #sociology

[Matt Withers @MattWithers_]

Development for whom? My new article shows that, in fixing (im)mobile migrant labour across rural Aus, the PALM scheme depletes socially reproductive capacities that sustain workers + families/communities in the Pacific #wgejournal

https://t.co/FvVT0u7CgD

[TIME @TIME]

While the struggles and inequities faced by Asia’s foreign domestic workers while they’re employed overseas are well-documented, the challenges that await them after they return home are less so https://t.co/Yex88zJqJS

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

"Europe will never discourage African migration while it funds the corruption that drives it"

This is the best article I've read about the REAL drivers of migration and the fallacy of our attempts to stop it in a long, LONG time.
Thanks @evelyngroenink https://t.co/0aAY3E8lvl

[Ian Urbina @ian_urbina]

The Crimes Behind the Seafood You Eat: China has invested heavily in an armada of far-flung fishing vessels, in part to extend its global influence. This maritime expansion has come at grave human cost.

https://t.co/cimuNqomZ1

[Sophie Henderson @Soph__Henderson]

That PhD coming back to me…

[GAATW @GAATW_IS]

Temporary labour migration schemes are incompatible with States' human rights obligations. After four years of investigation and work on the rights of migrants, this is @UNSR_Migration's key finding in his final report to the UNGA and we're not surprised: https://t.co/3UcfS3lerX

[Piyasiri @girawa93]

Newsbreak Chats: How, Why Diplomats Get Away With Exploiting Migrant Workers | Pulitzer Center https://t.co/AI1R5dQMEY

[Maayan Niezna is on Bluesky @niezna.bsky.social @M_Niezna]

Does it matter how we frame labour exploitation? Specifically, how does the negative framing of ‘modern slavery’ compare with the positive framing of ‘decent work’?
@nataliesedacca and I share some insights from two recent events on @SlaveryPEC blog:

[Ella Parry-Davies is mainly offline @EllaParryDavies]

Looking forward to the full report, where I hope we'll hear about the structural conditions - like the UK's #kafala-style 'tied visa' - which force #MigrantDomesticWorkers into situations of exploitation and abuse.

#DomesticWorkIsWork, and MDWs need full workers rights in the UK

[Sophie Henderson @Soph__Henderson]

20 days in Mariupol - the most gut wrenching documentary I’ve ever watched. A must watch testimony of the horrific annihilation of Mariupol that reveals the real face of Russia and its atrocities @Docedge https://t.co/CjZP5KGdwj

[Sophie Henderson @Soph__Henderson]

& @sallyhayd book is an essential read. A harrowing and infuriating account of the North African refugee crisis and a damning indictment of the UN and EU for their complicity.

[Sophie Henderson @Soph__Henderson]

Spot on article by @sallyhayd: “They are victims of the fact that the privileged of this planet have freedom of movement simply due to the luck of where they were born, while much of the rest must risk their lives in the hope of accessing a secure, dignified life.”

[The Irish Times @IrishTimes]

Sally Hayden: How has the mass drowning of people become in any way normalised? https://t.co/QXFnLYBMHH

[Dr Shih Joo Tan @shihjoo_t]

New publication 🙌🏼 My #OpenAccess article looks at how the live-in policy in #Singapore & #HongKong operates with labour migration reg to produce a situation where poor working & living conditions are an enduring part of women migrant domestic workers’ everyday lives

[Migrant Rights @MigrantRights]

GCC states, unmindful of the ban and the role of illegal agents, continued processing domestic work visas for Ghanaian women. Even if this meant that the worker was travelling without the requisite knowledge and in great precarity. #Ghana #KSA #Qatar #UAE
https://t.co/riHKj3qLIg

[Daniel Ghezelbash @DanGhez]

The #IllegalImmigrationBill will have ramifications far beyond the UK. The stakes could not be higher. It risks unravelling the international refugee protection regime and the hard won institution of asylum 🧵

[Bénédicte Jeannerod @BenJeannerod]

"Contrary to the narrative the UK government likes to push, it is not illegal to seek asylum, and it is irrelevant how a person arrived in the UK. What is illegal is the government’s cruel and draconian plan", says my colleague @DrEmMcDonnell https://t.co/2VRJw8Yied

[Sophie Henderson @Soph__Henderson]

This unlawful, inhumane and immoral Bill amounts to an asylum ban. Punishing irregular arrivals despite the lack of safe and legal routes available for most people fleeing war and persecution. The only saving grace is that they don’t have the competency to enforce it.

[Rishi Sunak @RishiSunak]

If you come to the UK illegally:

➡️ You can’t claim asylum

➡️ You can’t benefit from our modern slavery protections

➡️ You can’t make spurious human rights claims

➡️ You can’t stay

[Yasmine Ahmed @YasmineAhmed001]

🚨 The law proposed by @SuellaBraverman in Parl 2day to ban people claiming asylum in the UK is illegal, unworkable & utterly inhumane.

The UK is playing fast & loose with its int'l commitments, ramming through flawed legislation that targets some of the most vulnerable @HRW

[Matt Withers @MattWithers_]

Where do transnational care practices sit within the migration-development debate?

@ElizabethHill00 & I parse 3 partially-overlapping literatures to reveal how disruptions to unpaid care remain overlooked + argue for decent care policies

Open access:
https://t.co/JW2g8d4MaR