Maayan Niezna
Biographic Data
| ID | 5156433 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maayan Niezna |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maayan |
| FAMILY NAME | Niezna |
| SIGNATURE | NIEZNA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3808-0312 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Work as a crime, a resource and a relationship
UK law allows the confiscation of wages as proceeds of crime, notably for ‘illegal working’ by undocumented migrants. This article explores the context for criminalising work and confiscating wages, and the arguments against confiscation. It suggests that the confiscation of wages is conceptually, morally, and pragmatically questionable. The justifications for wage confiscation reflect an understanding of work as a finite resource controlled by t…
Precarious labour in precarious times
Through a study of the impact of the war in Israel/Palestine on non-citizen workers, this article contributes to a new area of research: the impact of a political crisis on labour migration policies. It considers key developments around the replacement of Palestinian workers with migrant workers and the adoption of problematic recruitment mechanisms discarded in the past. These developments reflect a tension between three logics underlying the po…
Consent in Contracts of Employment
This article considers the problem of questionable consent in contracts of employment. We suggest that in the context of employment, consent should be understood as a continuum that includes some level of coercion and some level of choice. We show that despite labour law's assumption of inequality of bargaining power, consent is still legally valid in various contexts of employment. We propose some solutions: procedural rules increasing the chanc…
Paper chains
‘Tied visa’ regimes are labour migration policies that condition migrants’ visas on employment with a particular employer, thus restricting their access to the labour market. This article considers how, under such regimes, control by the state shapes control by employers, and investigates the resemblance between official migration control policies and private means of control and coercion, amounting to forced labour and trafficking. The discussio…
Self-education and Collective Learning
This article describes the authors’ experience in forming an interdisciplinary online study group dedicated to collective learning on modern slavery and trafficking from a critical perspective. It proposes ideas for discussions and readings along with three main principles concerning the method and approach of creating such a group that can be relevant to researchers and practitioners. First, the creation of a safe and inspiring space, the dialog…
Paper chains
‘Tied visa’ regimes are labour migration policies that condition migrants’ visas on employment with a particular employer, thus restricting their access to the labour market. This article considers how, under such regimes, control by the state shapes control by employers, and investigates the resemblance between official migration control policies and private means of control and coercion, amounting to forced labour and trafficking. The discussio…
Self-education and Collective Learning
This article describes the authors’ experience in forming an interdisciplinary online study group dedicated to collective learning on modern slavery and trafficking from a critical perspective. It proposes ideas for discussions and readings along with three main principles concerning the method and approach of creating such a group that can be relevant to researchers and practitioners. First, the creation of a safe and inspiring space, the dialog…
Paper chains
‘Tied visa’ regimes are labour migration policies that condition migrants’ visas on employment with a particular employer, thus restricting their access to the labour market. This article considers how, under such regimes, control by the state shapes control by employers, and investigates the resemblance between official migration control policies and private means of control and coercion, amounting to forced labour and trafficking. The discussio…
Consent in Contracts of Employment
This article considers the problem of questionable consent in contracts of employment. We suggest that in the context of employment, consent should be understood as a continuum that includes some level of coercion and some level of choice. We show that despite labour law's assumption of inequality of bargaining power, consent is still legally valid in various contexts of employment. We propose some solutions: procedural rules increasing the chanc…
Work as a crime, a resource and a relationship
UK law allows the confiscation of wages as proceeds of crime, notably for ‘illegal working’ by undocumented migrants. This article explores the context for criminalising work and confiscating wages, and the arguments against confiscation. It suggests that the confiscation of wages is conceptually, morally, and pragmatically questionable. The justifications for wage confiscation reflect an understanding of work as a finite resource controlled by t…
Precarious labour in precarious times
Through a study of the impact of the war in Israel/Palestine on non-citizen workers, this article contributes to a new area of research: the impact of a political crisis on labour migration policies. It considers key developments around the replacement of Palestinian workers with migrant workers and the adoption of problematic recruitment mechanisms discarded in the past. These developments reflect a tension between three logics underlying the po…
Business (2 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Bargaining power (1 work) · Belt and Road Initiative (1 work) · Coercion (linguistics (1 work)