
- Location
- Kortenaerkade 12, 's - Gravenhage
- Room
- I3-20
- siegmann@iss.nl
Profile
Holding a PhD in Agricultural Economics, I work as an Associate Professor in Labour and Gender Economics at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Hague, the Netherlands. I am keen to understand how precarious workers challenge and change the social, economic and political structures that marginalize labour. This interest in emerges from my research on how precarious work is fashioned at the intersection of global economic processes with local labour markets, stratified by varying degrees of formality of work, as well as gender and other social identities. I have investigated these dynamics in the context of global production networks, global care chains and international migration more generally. Assuming that academia can make an important societal contribution, especially if the ways in which knowledge itself is produced embody alternatives to the status quo, I have increasingly conducted research jointly with actors who have a direct stake in progressive social change, such as workers’ and migrants’ organizations. The geographical focus of my work has been South Asia, Pakistan in particular. I welcome PhD supervisions that address these and related questions.
- Karin Astrid Siegmann, Julia Quaedvlieg & Tyler Williams (2022) - Migrant Labour in Dutch Agriculture - European Journal of Migration and Law, 24 (2), 217–240 - doi: 10.1163/15718166-12340127
- María Inés Cubides Kovacsics, Wáleri Santos & Karin Astrid Siegmann (2022) - Sex Workers’ Everyday Security in the Netherlands and the Impact of COVID-19 - Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 1-15 - doi: 10.1007/s13178-022-00729-4 - [link]
- Karin Astrid Siegmann (2022) - Harvesting consent: South Asian tea plantation workers’ experience of fairtrade certification - Journal of Peasant Studies - doi: 10.1080/03066150.2022.2060080 - [link]
- Karin Astrid Siegmann & Sreerekha Sathi (2022) - Unfreedoms in south India’s tea value chain: reproduction and resistance: Contribution to Globalizations Special Issue on ‘Unfreedom in Labor Relations: from a politics of rescue towards a politics of solidarity?’ - Globalizations, 19 (6), 971-988 - doi: 10.1080/14747731.2022.2047437 - [link]
- Karin Astrid Siegmann, P. (Petar) Ivosevic & Oane Visser (2021) - Working like machines: Exploring effects of technological change on migrant labour in Dutch horticulture - [link]
- Maria Ines Cubides Kovacsics, Wáleri Santos & Karin Astrid Siegmann (2021) - Sex workers’ everyday security in the Netherlands and the impact of COVID-19 - [link]
- Karin Astrid Siegmann & Hadia Majid (2021) - Empowering Growth in Pakistan? - Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 64 (2), 309-331 - doi: 10.1007/s41027-021-00316-y - [link]
- Karin Astrid Siegmann, Thea Hilhorst, Silke Heumann & MR Bashwira Nyenyezi (2021) - Understanding transactional sex in situations of humanitarian crises and reforming institutional responses - [link]
- Hadia Majid & Karin Astrid Siegmann (2021) - The Effects of Growth on Women’s Employment in Pakistan - Feminist Economics, 27 (4), 29-61 - doi: 10.1080/13545701.2021.1942512 - [link]
- Karin Astrid Siegmann, Sreerekha Mullassery Sathiamma, Cynthia Embido Bejeno, Richard Toppo & Lize Swartz (2020) - Research for Transformative Social Change: Toward Understanding and Applying Transformative Methodologies - [link]
- Karin Astrid Siegmann (24 October 2022) - Steps & explorations in my feminist journey
- Karin Astrid Siegmann (1 October 2022) - Lage lonen en goedkope krachten: wie doorbreekt de machtspositie van supermarkten? / Low wages and cheap labour: who will break the dominance of supermarkets?
- Jack Apostol, Helen Hintjens, Joy Melani & Karin Astrid Siegmann (8 July 2022) - Changing Minds and Policy through Collaborative Research?
- Empower Foundation, Silke Heumann & Karin Astrid Siegmann (2 July 2022) - A Reflection on Collaborative Writing Across Sex Worker Organisations and Academia
- Karin Astrid Siegmann (25 May 2022) - Pays-Bas: Ce petit pays qui nourrit la planète
- S (Sreerekha) Mullassery Sathiamma, KA (Karin Astrid) Siegmann, CE (Cynthia Embido) Bejeno, E (Lize) Swartz & RH (Richard) Toppo (12 January 2022) - Thinking Transformative Methodologies Collectively
- KA (Karin Astrid) Siegmann (23 September 2021) - How Anti-trafficking Governance is Getting it Wrong: Consequences of the differential treatment of migrant worker groups in the Netherlands
- Hadia Majid & KA (Karin Astrid) Siegmann (14 September 2021) - The First to be Laid Off
- KA (Karin Astrid) Siegmann (28 April 2021) - Duurzame toekomst voor de landbouw? Niet zolang arbeidsmigranten wegwerpproducten zijn
- KA (Karin Astrid) Siegmann (30 October 2020) - Advice Migrant Worker Protection Taskforce
- KA (Karin Astrid) Siegmann (2021) - Bliss, ISS blog on global development and social justice (Journal)
- Maria Ines Cubides Kovacsics, W Santos & Karin Astrid Siegmann (2020) - ‘When something happens, they don't help’: Sex workers’ everyday security in the Netherlands and the impact of COVID-19
- Karin Astrid Siegmann (2020) - Harvesting consent: South Asian tea plantation workers' experience of Fairtrade certification
- Karin Astrid Siegmann & Julia Quaedvlieg (2020) - Van gereguleerde wantoestanden naar eerlijk werk in de landbouw
- Karin Astrid Siegmann (2020) - Beter uit de coronacrisis? [Building back better after the corona crisis?]
- Karin Astrid Siegmann (2020) - Work, Employment and Society (Journal)
- Karin Astrid Siegmann (2020) - Paradoxes of migrants’ exploitation in the Netherlands
- Karin Astrid Siegmann & Hadia Majid (2019) - Has Growth Been Good for Women’s Employment in Pakistan?
- P Ivosevic, Karin Astrid Siegmann & Oane Visser (2018) - People as Robots? Exploring the effects of technological changes in the Dutch agro-food sector on Central & Eastern European migrants
- Karin Astrid Siegmann (2018) - Labour unfreedoms in the tea supply chains
4154 Critical Social Policy
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-4154-22-23
4242 Gender at Work in Development
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-4242-22-23
4338 Gender and Sexuality as 'Lenses'
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-4338-22-23
3105 Research Paper Preparation
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-3105-22-23
Major SPD
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-SPD-22-23
5401 Research Paper
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-5401-22-23
Master track GMD
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-GMD-22-23
Board of Examiners
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-BOE-22-23
Governance of Migration and Diversity
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-GMD1-22-23
Politics of Migration and Diversity
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-GMD2-22-23
History of Migration and Diversity
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-GMD3-22-23
Sociology of Migration and Diversity
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-GMD4-22-23
Social Inequality in the City
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-GMD5-22-23
General Information
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISSGENERAL-22-23
4394 SPD: Working towards the RP
- Year
- 2022
- Course Code
- ISS-4394-22-23