Bordering Social Reproduction : Migrant Mothers and Children Making Lives in the Shadows /
<I>Bordering social reproduction</i> 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 ethnographi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Manchester, UK ;
Manchester University Press,
2025
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| Series: | Women on the move.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | <I>Bordering social reproduction</i> 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. "<I>Bordering social reproduction</i> provides rich ethnographic insights into the complexities of the everyday lives of migrant mothers and children who are subject to the United Kingdom's 'no recourse to public funds' (NRPF) policy, a controversial immigration condition prohibiting access to most welfare benefits for even the most destitute. Developing innovative theorisations of welfare bordering, this book shows how enforced destitution and debt work alongside detention and deportation as exclusionary technologies of the racial state. <i>Bordering social reproduction</i> advances the novel concept of weathering to understand mothers' and children's life-making practices under duress: neither acts of heroic resilience nor solely symptomatic of lives rendered disposable, but indications of the fragility of repressive migration regimes and, on occasion, the refusal to accept their terms of existence. Making incisive interventions into theoretical discussions around social reproduction, bordering and childhood, this engaging book invites us to think carefully about the relationship between welfare states and border regimes, and how we might contest them."--back cover. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9781526189257 1526189259 |