Social & Legal Studies

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print.

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Qatar has become a significant destination for migrant workers looking to escape unemployment in their home countries. However, highly active labour migration pathways create migration industries that exploit …

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print.

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print.

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. This article interrogates the controversial field of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), focussing in particular on the implication of the British press in its regulation. It grounds its analysis in …

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. This paper places the seemingly distinct projects of refugee protection and temporary foreign worker programs alongside one another to reveal their interlinked relationship. I argue that despite its seeming hu…

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. This article addresses the question of what strategic litigation means for workers and trade unions. Drawing on the existing literature and on a series of semi-structured interviews with union officials, lawye…

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. Despite being frequently invoked in everyday police work and immigration enforcement to justify coercive measures, public order and security remains an ambiguous legal concept. For EU citizens, the Citizens’ R…

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print.

Social &Legal Studies, Ahead of Print. A minor movement of strippers and sex workers are unionising as the Sex Workers’ Union (SWU) branch of the Bakers Food & Allied Workers Union. SWU have produced a counter hegemonic perspective on law and s…