W G Hart Legal Workshop 2025: Regulating the Global Movement of Care

The topic for the 2025 Hart Workshop is Regulating the Global Movement of Care. The Workshop will seek to consider the role of law in managing the global movement of care, broadly defined to include healthcare, social care, domestic care, and unpaid care. Immigrant labour has long been the bedrock of the care systems of many countries in the world and law is intimately involved in ordering the movement of care and care workers.  The Workshop invites participants to explore the numerous distinct involvements of the law in this process of movement, such as by creating precarity through the imposition of stringent immigration or regulatory requirements, by providing migrant carers and their supporters with a tool to fight oppression, or by defining relationships between migrant carers and their broader kinship networks. The Workshop will be organised around four themes – precarity, advocacy, protection, and kinship networks – and will provide an opportunity to explore the legal regulation of care through the lens of a variety of disciplines, including history, anthropology, politics, sociology, criminology, and creative arts.

Workshop Organisers:

Priyasha Saksena (University of Leeds)

Adrienne Yong (City, University of London)

Amanda Spalding (University of Leeds)

Amrita Limbu (University of Leeds)

Marie-Andrée Jacob (University of Leeds)

Download Draft Programme (pdf) HERE 

This event is free to attend, but booking is required.