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Author_Rachel Rosen
border control
border technologies
bordering practices
British
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childhood
children
debt
destitution
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erasure
everyday racism
family
home
homelessness
London
migrant mothers
migrants
migration
migration status
motherhood
nation
nationality
neoliberal capitalism
No Recourse to Public Funds - NRPF
no resource to public funds
precarity
race
racialised borders
racism
Social reproduction
state
temporality
transnational migration
undocumented migration
welfare bordering
Product details
- ISBN 9781526189271
- Weight: 450g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 29 Apr 2025
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Bordering social reproduction explores what happens when migrants subject to policies that seek to deny them the means of life nonetheless endeavour to make and sustain meaningful lives. Developing innovative theorisations of welfare bordering, the volume provides rich ethnographic insights into the everyday lives of destitute mothers and children who are denied mainstream welfare support in the United Kingdom due to their immigration status. This book shows how enforced destitution and debt work alongside detention and deportation as part of a tripartite of exclusionary technologies of the racial state. It advances the novel concept of weathering to comprehend mother’s and children’s life-making practices under duress – arguing that these are neither acts of heroic resilience nor solely symptomatic of lives rendered disposable, but indications of the fragilities of repressive migration regimes and, on occasion, refusals to accept their terms of existence.
Rachel Rosen is a Professor of Sociology at University College London
Eve Dickson is a Senior Research Fellow at University College London
