Maayan Niezna

Associate Fellow - Bonavero Institute of Human Rights

Bonavero Institute of Human Rights

Biography

Maayan is a Lecturer at the University of Liverpool’s School of Law and Social Justice.

She was the Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Modern Slavery and Human Rights at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, and a Fellow of the intial phase of the Modern Slavery Policy and Evidence Centre, funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Maayan was at the Bonavero between 2022-2024.

Her socio-legal research focuses on trafficking for labour exploitation, the regulation of labour migration, and the rights of non-citizens. Her current project 'Work as a Site of Agency and a Site of Exploitation' compares the understanding of labour exploitation across policymakers, law enforcement agents and people with lived experience of exploitation, and was awarded a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant.

Publications

Journal Article (7)

Niezna M and Davidov G, ‘Consent in Contracts of Employment’ (2023) 86(5) Modern Law Review 1134

Niezna M, ‘Paper chains: tied visas, migration policies, and legal coercion’ (2022) 49(2) Journal of Law and Society 362

Niezna M, ‘Labour Exploitation in Human Trafficking Law’ (2022) 51(2) INDUSTRIAL LAW JOURNAL 500

Niezna M and Agarwal P, ‘Self-education and Collective Learning: Forming a critical ‘modern slavery’ study group’ [2021] (17) Anti-Trafficking Review 133

Kurlander Y, Niezna M and Shamir H, ‘COVID-19’s Impact on Non-Israeli Workers: Vulnerability, Commodification and Hope’ (2021) 21(2) Israeli Sociology 82

Niezna M, ‘A Failure Foretold – Procedures as Instruments for the Denial of Substantial Rights from Palestinian Residents’ (2018) 9(2) Tel Aviv University Journal of Law & Social Change (Ma’asei Mishpat) 127

Niezna M, Kurlander Y and Shamir H, ‘Underlying Conditions: The Increased Vulnerability of Migrant Workers Under COVID-19 in Israel’ 6(2) Journal of Modern Slavery 133

Niezna M, ‘Identification and Enforcement’ in H Shamir and M Niezna (eds.), An Alternative Anti-Trafficking Action Plan: A Proposed Model Based on a Labor Approach to Trafficking (TraffLab Research Group Policy Paper, Tel Aviv University 2020)

Niezna M, ‘The Concept of Human Dignity in Israeli Jurisprudence’ in A Harel, E H. Morgenstern and Y Lushinsky (eds.), LGBTQ Rights in Israel: Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation and the Law (The Harry and Michael Sacher Institute for Legislative Research and Comparative Law, Nevo Publishers 2016)

Internet publication or blog post (3)

Niezna M, ‘Traded Like Commodities and Transferred Abroad for Processing’: Legal and Political Claims Against the UK-Rwanda Deal’ (Border Criminologies, 10 May 2022)

Niezna M, ‘Under Control: Palestinian Workers in Israel During COVID-19’ (Border Criminologies, 1 January 2020)

Niezna M, ‘Consent, Sex and ‘Sexceptionalism’: Comments on Robin West’s 2019 Chorley Lecture, ’Consent, Legitimation and Dysphoria’’ (Modern Law Review Forum, 4 October 2019)

Niezna M, ‘Offenses against Liberty: Between the Criminal and the Administrative Law [Hebrew]’ (2020) 102 HaMishpat’ Online: Human Rights 4 (case-note)

Niezna M, ‘And he shall rule over you – The acquittal of Goel Ratzon from the count of holding a person under conditions of slavery [Hebrew]’ (2014) 34 HaMishpat’ Online: Human Rights 4 (case-note)

Shamir H and Niezna M, ‘An Alternative Anti-Trafficking Action plan: A Proposed Model Based on a Labor Approach to Trafficking’ (M Niezna ed., TraffLab Research Group Policy Paper, Tel Aviv University 2022)

Niezna M and Tadjer M, ‘Situation Report: Developments and Reform in the Employment Conditions of Palestinians in Israel’ (Kav LaOved - Worker’s Hotline 2021)

Niezna M, ‘The Occupation of Labor - Employment of Palestinian Workers in Israel’ (Kav LaOved (Worker’s Hotline) 2018)