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Dr Angela Kintominas

Dr Angela Kintominas

Lecturer
Law & Justice
School of Law, Society & Criminology

Angela Kintominas (she/her) is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Law & Justice at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Angela's areas of expertise include feminist and critical theoretical approaches to gender, work, social reproduction and labour law, welfare states and migration. She has worked on projects across the fields of temporary labour migration, family migration and transnational family life, global care chains and migrant care and domestic work, au pairing, surrogacy, and the platformization of care and domestic work in the gig economy.

Angela has published in Gender Work & Organization, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, and the Anti-Trafficking Review, as well as in media outlets The Conversation and Women’s Agenda. Prior to joining UNSW Law and Justice, she was a research associate with theÌýÌý(UTS/UNSW), the Social Policy Research CentreÌý(UNSW), and CEPAR (University of Sydney).

Angela is a member of the Editorial Board of the Australian Feminist Law JournalÌý(and former Managing Editor between 2021-2024). She previously served as an Editor of the Human Rights Defender and as a student Editorial Board Member of the UNSW Law Journal. She is a member of the , and an Associate of the Australian Human Rights Institute at UNSW Sydney.

Angela has a PhD in Law from UNSW Law and Justice where she was a Scientia PhD Scholar. Angela obtained a Master of Laws from Columbia Law School, where she was a Lionel Murphy Scholar and was awarded the Walter Gellhorn Prize for highest academic achievement. She took part in the Columbia Gender and Sexuality Law Clinic and was a graduate intern in the gender and migration team at UN Women Headquarters, New York. Angela obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Hons I) and Bachelor of Laws (Hons I, Valedictorian) from UNSW Sydney. Prior to joining academia, Angela worked as solicitor and is admitted in the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia.

Location
Room 324, Level 3, Law and Justice Building
  • Book Chapters | 2021
    Kintominas A; Berg L; Farbenblum B, 2021, 'Technology for engaging and empowering migrant workers', in McAuliffe M (ed.), Research Handbook on International Migration and Digital Technology, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, UK / USA, pp. 236 - 250,
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Hamilton M; Kintominas A; Adamson E, 2024, 'Childcare by migrant nannies and migrant grannies: A critical discourse analysis of new policy solutions for securing reproductive labor in Australian households', Gender, Work and Organization, 31, pp. 1290 - 1311,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Hamilton M; Hill E; Kintominas A, 2021, 'Moral Geographies of Care across Borders: The Experience of Migrant Grandparents in Australia', Social Politics,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Berg L; Farbenblum B; Kintominas A, 2020, 'Addressing Exploitation in Supply Chains: Is technology a game changer for worker voice?', The Anti-Trafficking Review, pp. 47 - 66,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Kintominas A, 2020, 'Women, work and care in the Asia-Pacific', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARE AND CARING, 4, pp. 451 - 452,
  • Other | 2020
    Baldassar L; Hill E; Hamilton M; Brennan D; Dymond T; Withers M; Stevens C; Kintominas A, 2020, Submission to the Select Committee on Temporary Migration on the impact temporary migration has on the Australian economy, wages and jobs, social cohesion and workplace rights and conditions, ,
    Reports | 2020
    Berg L; Farbenblum B; Huang Y; Lee D; Saleh S; Sharma A; Kintominas A, 2020, "As If We Weren't Humans": The abandonment of temporary migrants in Australia during COVID-19, Migrant Worker Justice Initiative,
    Other | 2018
    Farbenblum B; Berg L; Kintominas A, 2018, Submission to Australian Human Rights Commission Consultation into Human Rights and Technology, ,
    Reports | 2018
    Farbenblum B; Berg L; Kintominas A, 2018, Transformative Technology for Migrant Workers: Opportunities, Challenges and Risks, Open Society Foundations, New York, ,
    Reports | 2018
    Hamilton M; Kintominas A; Brennan D, 2018, The Temporary Sponsored Parent Visa, Migrant Grandparents and Transnational Family Life, UNSW Sydney, Sydney,
    Reports | 2016
    Finkelstein A; Mac Dougall S; Kintominas A; Olsen A, 2016, Surrogacy Law and Policy in the U.S: A National Conversation Informed by Global Lawmaking,
  • Media | 2021
    Hamilton M; Kintominas A; Hill E, 2021, New research shows how hard it is for ‘flying grannies’ to care for their Australian grandkids, ,
    Media | 2019
    Gibson J; Kintominas A; Symington A, 2019, Business and Human Rights: Current and Future Challenges,
    Media | 2019
    Kintominas A; Hamilton M, 2019, Migrant grandparents to fill childcare gap, but at what cost?, ,
    Media | 2019
    Kintominas A, 2019, Addressing economic abuse: can we bank on it?, ,
    Media | 2019
    Kintominas A, 2019, Business, human rights and gender equality: working towards an intersectional, feminist and transformative agenda, ,

Finalist, UNSW 3MT Competition (2022)

UNSW Postgraduate Research Council, HDR Student of the Year Award (2021)

Walter Gellhorn Prize for Highest Academic Achievement in LLM, Columbia Law School (2016)

James Kent Scholar (equiv. of First Class Honours), Columbia University Law School (2016)

Lionel Murphy Endowment Postgraduate ScholarshipÌý(2015)

Valedictorian of Graduating LLB Class, UNSW Law School (2013)

UNSW Law Dean’s List, UNSW Law (2012)

Bill Ashcroft Prize forÌýBest Essay on Australian Literature, UNSW Faculty of Arts (2010)

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My Teaching

Employment Law (LAWS3028/JURD7328)

Legal Research and Writing (LAWS1055/JURD7155)

Legal Research & Writing: Australian Law (LAWS1160/JURD7160) (legacy course/transitional module)

Federal Constitutional Law (LAWS2150 / JURD7250)

UG /JD Coursework Research Thesis Supervision (LAWS3423 / JURD7823)