dr. Karin Astrid Siegmann

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• 2025

  Working like Machines: Technological Upgrading and Labour in the Dutch Agri-food Chain

  Siegmann, K. A., Ivošević, P. & Visser, O., 1 Feb 2025, In: Work, Employment and Society. 39, 1, p. 202-225 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  • Dutch 100%
  • Food Chain 100%
  • Horticulture 50%
  • Value-Added Product 50%
  • Value Chain 33%

• “Happy cows without happy workers?” How Migrant Justice is fighting for improved labour conditions in the US’ dairy industry

  Aslam, H. & Siegmann, K. A., 2025, Den Haag : International Institute of Social Studies (ISS).

  Research output: Other contribution › Professional
• 2024

  Migrant work and the future of food cultivation in the Netherlands

  Siegmann, K. A., Oct 2024, Den Haag: International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), 15 p. (ISS working papers. General series; No. 726).

  Research output: Working paper › Academic

  Open Access

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  • Migrant Workers 100%
  • Dutch 100%
  • Supermarket 100%
  • Food and Nutrition Program 100%
  • Food Chain 100%
  160 Downloads (Pure)

• Migrantenarbeid en de toekomst van de voedselteelt in Nederland

  Siegmann, K. A., Sept 2024, Den Haag. 140 p.

  Research output: Book/Report/Inaugural speech/Farewell speech › Report › Professional

• Decriminalizing sex work is a first step towards assuring rights and recognition for sex workers in Belgium — but it is not a silver bullet

  Chargois, M., Bawens, D. & Siegmann, K. A., 2024, 3 p. Den Haag : International Institute of Social Studies (ISS).

  Research output: Other contribution › Professional
• 2022

  A Reflection on Collaborative Writing Across Sex Worker Organisations and Academia

  Empower Foundation, Heumann, S. & Siegmann, K. A., 2 Jul 2022

  Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site › Academic

  • Workers' Right 100%
  • Workers' Organization 100%
  • Social Studies 100%
  • Thailand 100%
  • Sex Worker 100%

• Sex Workers’ Everyday Security in the Netherlands and the Impact of COVID-19

  Cubides Kovacsics, M. I., Santos, W. & Siegmann, K. A., 25 May 2022, In: Sexuality Research and Social Policy. 20, 2, p. 810-824 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

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  • Legislation 100%
  • COVID-19 100%
  • Sex Work 100%
  • COVID 19 Epidemic 60%
  • Policy Implication 50%
  8 Citations (Scopus)

  304 Downloads (Pure)

• 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?’

  Siegmann, K. A. & Sathi, S., 24 Mar 2022, In: Globalizations. 19, 6, p. 971-988 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

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  • Value Chain 100%
  • Labor Relation 100%
  • Reproductive Medicine 100%
  • Forced Labour 100%
  • Coercion 66%
  5 Citations (Scopus)

  242 Downloads (Pure)

• Transformative Methodologies: Thinking Transformative Methodologies Collectively

  Sathi, S., Siegmann, K. A., Bejeno, C. E., Swartz, L. & Toppo, R., 12 Jan 2022

  Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site › Academic

• Changing Minds and Policy through Collaborative Research?

  Apostol, J., Hintjens, H., Melani, J. & Siegmann, K. A., 2022

  Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site › Academic

  • Social Reality 100%
  • Participatory Research 100%
  • Social Relationships 100%
  • Social Science 100%

• Harvesting consent: South Asian tea plantation workers’ experience of fairtrade certification

  Siegmann, K. A., 2022, In: Journal of Peasant Studies. 50, 5, p. 2050-2074 25 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

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  • Plantation 100%
  4 Citations (Scopus)

  139 Downloads (Pure)

• Migrant Labour in Dutch Agriculture: Regulated Precarity

  Siegmann, K. A., Quaedvlieg, J. & Williams, T., 2022, In: European Journal of Migration and Law. 24, 2, p. 217–240 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

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  • Precarity 100%
  • Dutch 100%
  • Migrant Worker 100%
  • Trade Union 100%
  • Labor Market 100%
  13 Citations (Scopus)

  161 Downloads (Pure)
• 2021

  Working like machines: Exploring effects of technological change on migrant labour in Dutch horticulture

  Siegmann, K. A., Ivosevic, P. & Visser, O., Nov 2021, Den Haag: International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), 29 p. (ISS working papers. General series; No. 691).

  Research output: Working paper › Professional

  Open Access

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  • Horticulture 100%
  • Dutch 100%
  • Technological Change 100%
  • Migrant Workers 66%
  • Value Chain 33%
  48 Downloads (Pure)

• Sex workers’ everyday security in the Netherlands and the impact of COVID-19

  Cubides Kovacsics, M. I., Santos, W. & Siegmann, K. A., 4 Oct 2021, Den Haag: International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), 33 p. (ISS working papers. General series; No. 689).

  Research output: Working paper › Academic

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  • Legislation 100%
  • COVID-19 100%
  • Semistructured Interview 100%
  • Sex Work 100%
  • Public Health 100%
  31 Downloads (Pure)

• Empowering Growth in Pakistan?

  Siegmann, K. A. & Majid, H., 18 Jun 2021, In: Indian Journal of Labour Economics. 64, 2, p. 309-331 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Pakistan 100%
  • Macroeconomics 100%
  • Economic Growth 50%
  • Gender Inequality 50%
  • Macroeconomic Performance 50%
  6 Citations (Scopus)

• Understanding transactional sex in situations of humanitarian crises and reforming institutional responses

  Siegmann, K. A., Hilhorst, T., Heumann, S. & Bashwira Nyenyezi, M., 28 Apr 2021

  Research output: Memorandum/exposition › Research proposal

  • Societal Impact 100%
  • Congo DR 100%
  • Pakistan 100%
  • Health Care Delivery 100%
  • Colombia 100%

• The Effects of Growth on Women’s Employment in Pakistan

  Majid, H. & Siegmann, K. A., 2021, In: Feminist Economics. 27, 4, p. 29-61 33 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

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  • Womens Employment 100%
  • Pakistan 100%
  • Life Cycle 100%
  • Precarity 60%
  • Gender Equality 20%
  14 Citations (Scopus)

  98 Downloads (Pure)
• 2020

  Research for Transformative Social Change: Toward Understanding and Applying Transformative Methodologies

  Siegmann, K. A., Mullassery Sathiamma, S., Bejeno, C. E., Toppo, R. & Swartz, L., 16 Dec 2020

  Research output: Memorandum/exposition › Research proposal

  • Civics 100%
  • Outreach 33%
  • Research Practice 33%
  • Participatory Research 33%
  • Innovation Research 33%

• Chapter The Netherlands in report Are Agri-Food Workers Only Exploited in Southern Europe? Case Study on Migrant Labour in the Netherlands

  Siegmann, K. A. & Williams, T., 15 Jul 2020, Brussels. 8 p.

  Research output: Book/Report/Inaugural speech/Farewell speech › Report › Academic

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  69 Downloads (Pure)

• Revaluing essential workers

  Siegmann, K. A., 1 May 2020

  Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site › Academic

• Seeking Health below the Radar: Undocumented People’s access to healthcare in Two Dutch Cities

  Hintjens, H., Siegmann, K. A. & Staring, R., 1 Mar 2020, In: Social Science & Medicine. 2020, 248, p. 1-35 35 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

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  9 Citations (Scopus)

  755 Downloads (Pure)

• Two faces of the automation revolution: impacts on working conditions of migrant labourers in the Dutch agri-food sector

  Williams, T., Visser, O., Siegmann, K. A. & Ivosevic, P., 16 Jan 2020

  Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site › Academic

  • Working Conditions 100%
  • Dutch 100%
  • Technological Change 66%
  • Manual Labor 33%
  • Increase in Production 33%

• Chapter 'The Netherlands' in report 'Covid-19, Agri-Food Systems, and Migrant Labour: the situation in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden

  Siegmann, K. A. & Quaedvlieg, J., 2020, Brussels. 3 p.

  Research output: Book/Report/Inaugural speech/Farewell speech › Report › Academic

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  14 Downloads (Pure)

• Fairtrade certified Tea in the Hired Labour Sector in India and Sri Lanka: Impact Study and Baseline Data Collection

  Siegmann, K. A., Ananthakrishnan, S., Fernando, K., Joseph, K., Romeshun, K., Kurian, R., Samuel, S. & Viswanathan, P., 2020, Bonn. 138 p.

  Research output: Book/Report/Inaugural speech/Farewell speech › Report › Academic

• From clapping for essential workers to revaluing them

  Siegmann, K. A., 2020

  Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site › Academic

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• From regulated precarity to decent work: Improving conditions for migrant workers in Dutch agriculture

  Siegmann, K. A., Quaedvlieg, J. & Williams, T., 2020, The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), 8 p.

  Research output: Working paper › Academic

• HARVESTING DECENT WORK THROUGH FAIRTRADE CERTIFICATION: TOWARDS A WORKER-DRIVEN FAIRTRADE APPROACH IN SOUTH ASIAN TEA PLANTATIONS

  Siegmann, K. A., 2020, Bonn. 7 p.

  Research output: Book/Report/Inaugural speech/Farewell speech › Report › Academic

• Van gereguleerde wantoestanden naar eerlijk werk: Betere omstandigheden voor arbeidsmigranten in de Nederlandse landbouw

  Siegmann, K. A., Quaedvlieg, J. & Williams, T., 2020, The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), 9 p.

  Research output: Working paper › Academic
• 2019

  Exploitation in Northern European Agriculture

  Siegmann, K. A., Quaedvlieg, J. & Williams, T., 8 Nov 2019

  Research output: Memorandum/exposition › Research proposal

  Open Access

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  107 Downloads (Pure)

• Striking for a transformative university

  Siegmann, K. A. & Shah, A., 13 Mar 2019

  Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site › Academic

  • Netherlands 100%

• Striking for a transformative university - a conversation between Senior Lecturer Karin Astrid Siegmann and PhD researcher Amod Shah on the protests against cuts in education

  Siegmann, K. A. & Shah, A., 2019, In: DevISSues. 21, 1

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Professional

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  1 Downloads (Pure)

• Testing Fairtrade’s Labour Rights Commitments in South Asian Tea Plantations: A Good Match between Civic and Industrial Conventions?

  Siegmann, K. A., Sajitha, A., Fernando, K., Joseph, K., Romeshun, K., Kurian, R. & Viswanthan, P., 2019, In: Revue Internationale des Etudes du Developpement. 240, 4, p. 63-94 32 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

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  • Civics 100%
  • Plantation 100%
  • Sri Lanka 50%
  • Trade Union 50%
  • Organization and Methods 50%
  37 Downloads (Pure)

• ‘Decent Work for Sex Workers’ as ILO’s Centenary Treat'

  Siegmann, K. A., 2019

  Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site › Academic

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• 2018

  ‘Menschenwürdige Arbeit für Sexarbeiter*innen‘ als Geschenk zum 100-jährigen Geburtstag der ILO

  Siegmann, K. A., Oct 2018, Wünsche für die Zukunft. : Was ExpertInnen der ILO empfehlen. Ferenschild, S. (ed.). Bonn, p. 23-25 3 p.

  Research output: Chapter/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › Professional

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  3 Downloads (Pure)

• From ‘do no harm’ to making research useful: a conversation on ethics in development research

  Siegmann, K. A., 22 Jun 2018

  Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site › Academic

  • Ethical Issue 100%
  • Ethics 100%
  • Ethical dilemmas 100%

• Sekswerker in Den Haag zoekt bondgenoot

  Siegmann, K. A., 2018

  Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site › Popular
• 2017

  Positive Class Compromise in Globalized Production? The Freedom of Association Protocol in the Indonesian Sportswear Industry

  Siegmann, K. A., Merk, J. & Knorringa, P., Dec 2017, In: International Labour Review. 56, 3-4, p. 345-365 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

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  • Value Chain 100%
  • Freedom of Association 100%
  • Global Value Chains 100%
  • Specific Industry 100%
  • Legislation 50%
  7 Citations (Scopus)

  5 Downloads (Pure)

• Has Growth Been Good for Women’s Employment in Pakistan?

  Siegmann, K. A. & Majid, H., 22 Apr 2017.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference contribution › Academic

• Women’s Labouring Practices in Pakistan

  Siegmann, K. A. & Grünenfelder, J., 22 Apr 2017.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference contribution › Academic

• Has growth been good for women’s employment in Pakistan?

  Majid, H. & Siegmann, K. A., Apr 2017, The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), 33 p. (ISS working papers. General series; No. 630).

  Research output: Working paper › Academic

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  • Womens Employment 100%
  • Pakistan 100%
  • Labour Force 100%
  • Employment Change 100%
  • Business Cycle 100%
  11 Downloads (Pure)

• A game changer for women?

  Siegmann, K. A. & Majid, H., 2017

  Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site › Popular

  • Pakistan 100%
  • US Dollar 100%
  • Economic developments 100%
  • Economic and Social Development 33%
  • Social Exclusion 33%

• A worker-driven way out of the crisis in Mediterranean agriculture

  Iocco, G. & Siegmann, K. A., 2017, Johannesburg, 2 p. (Global Labour Column, Vol. 289).

  Research output: Working paper › Academic

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  • Agriculture 100%
  5 Downloads (Pure)

• CIRI Forum on Worker-driven Innovation in the Globalized Economy – Learning from Encounters

  Siegmann, K. A. & Iocco, G., 2017, The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies (ISS). 46 p.

  Research output: Book/Report/Inaugural speech/Farewell speech › Report › Academic

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  • Erasmus 100%
  • Rotterdam 100%
  • Social Studies 100%
  • Working Conditions 100%
  • Open Spaces 100%
  20 Downloads (Pure)

• Dividends from fairtrade: can compliance lead to better working conditions for Sri Lankan workers?

  Fernando, K. & Siegmann, K. A., 2017

  Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site › Popular

  Open Access

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  8 Downloads (Pure)

• Policy Brief: Towards Realising Health Rights among Undocumented People in Dutch Cities. Lessons from participatory research

  Siegmann, K. A., Hintjens, H. & Staring, R., 2017, The Hague: International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), 4 p.

  Research output: Working paper › Academic

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  • Participatory Research 100%
  • Dutch 100%
  • Large City 33%
  • International Treaty 33%
  142 Downloads (Pure)
• 2016

  Towards decent work with workers in the driver’s seat: Learning from the Forum on Worker-driven Innovation in the Globalized Economy

  Siegmann, K. A. & Iocco, G., 30 Nov 2016, In: DevISSues. 18, 2, p. 4-6 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Professional

  Open Access

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• Understanding the Globalising Precariat: From Informal Sector to Precarious Work

  Siegmann, K. A. & Schiphorst, F., Apr 2016, In: Progress in Development Studies. 16, 2, p. 1-13 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

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  • Social Exclusion 100%
  • Informal Sector 100%
  • Developed Countries 100%
  • World of Work 100%
  • Precariat 100%
  78 Citations (Scopus)

  47 Downloads (Pure)

• Fair Trade as Civic Innovation? The case of tea certification in India

  Siegmann, K. A., 17 Mar 2016.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference contribution › Academic

• Civic Innovation in Value Chains: Towards Workers as Agents in Non-governmental Labour Regulation

  Siegmann, K. A., Merk, J. & Knorringa, P., 2016, Exploring Civic Innovation for Social and Economic Transformation. Biekart, K., Harcourt, W. & Knorringa, P. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 109-131 23 p. (Routledge Studies in Development Economics, Vol. 123).

  Research output: Chapter/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic

  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Fair Trade as Civic Innovation? The case of tea certification in India

  Siegmann, K. A., 2016, Thiruvananthapuram, India, 34 p. (NRPPD Discussion Papers, Vol. 53).

  Research output: Working paper › Academic

  • Civics 100%
  • India 100%
  • Value Creation 100%
  • Sustainable Development 100%
  • Labour Force 100%