Shadows: Making Lives with NRPF
@shadowsnrpf.bsky.social
Shadows is a research project investigating social reproduction, or how migrant families and unaccompanied young people make and sustain their lives with NRPF https://nrpfintheshadows.com/
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Welcome to the Shadows research project, which will investigate the deep and enduring effects of #NRPF on the lives of families and unaccompanied young people with insecure migration status in England.
Read about our project, team & partners here 👇 nrpfintheshadows.com
Read about our project, team & partners here 👇 nrpfintheshadows.com
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Through ethnographic fieldwork, decolonial policy analysis, and creative co-production Shadows project @shadowsnrpf.bsky.social explores how migrant families and young people with no access to public funds survive and create lives in England. Learn more: nrpfintheshadows.com
#NRPF #SocialJustice
#NRPF #SocialJustice
November 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Through ethnographic fieldwork, decolonial policy analysis, and creative co-production Shadows project @shadowsnrpf.bsky.social explores how migrant families and young people with no access to public funds survive and create lives in England. Learn more: nrpfintheshadows.com
#NRPF #SocialJustice
#NRPF #SocialJustice
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On the train back from meeting with a young research participant. It's surreal sometimes to have such positive and amazing interactions with people just to then be bombarded by divisive rhetoric and politics that demonise refugees #NRPF @shadowsnrpf.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
On the train back from meeting with a young research participant. It's surreal sometimes to have such positive and amazing interactions with people just to then be bombarded by divisive rhetoric and politics that demonise refugees #NRPF @shadowsnrpf.bsky.social
Among the other draconian changes proposed by the Home Secretary, this opens a completely new horizon of 'welfare' as bordering. We are reaching a new dimension of #NRPF policies in the UK which leads to nothing but more suffering for more people.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK government set to make support for asylum seekers ‘discretionary’
Home secretary expected to change system to deny help to those who can work or who have assets
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Among the other draconian changes proposed by the Home Secretary, this opens a completely new horizon of 'welfare' as bordering. We are reaching a new dimension of #NRPF policies in the UK which leads to nothing but more suffering for more people.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
In 2021, Shadows team members Eve Dickson & Rachel Rosen wrote about the “impossibility of the 10-year route” to ILR after the 2012 family migration reforms. In 2025 the government’s #WhitePaper proposes this route as the norm for all applicants, drastically extending #NRPF
doi.org/10.1177/0261...
doi.org/10.1177/0261...
‘Punishing those who do the wrong thing’: Enforcing destitution and debt through the UK’s family migration rules - Eve Dickson, Rachel Rosen, 2021
In 2012, the ‘no recourse to public funds’ (NRPF) condition was extended to long-standing migrant families in the UK who had previously achieved rights to resid...
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November 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
In 2021, Shadows team members Eve Dickson & Rachel Rosen wrote about the “impossibility of the 10-year route” to ILR after the 2012 family migration reforms. In 2025 the government’s #WhitePaper proposes this route as the norm for all applicants, drastically extending #NRPF
doi.org/10.1177/0261...
doi.org/10.1177/0261...
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🚨 Saeema Syeda, of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI), said the poll shows:
"It's a manufactured panic, pushed by some politicians and parts of the media to distract from what actually matters to people.
https://bit.ly/4oekHXR
"It's a manufactured panic, pushed by some politicians and parts of the media to distract from what actually matters to people.
https://bit.ly/4oekHXR
'Manufactured panic': Immigration not near top of most people's concerns, poll suggests
The cost of living, health, crime, and housing are much higher on people's lists of personal worries, a YouGov survey has suggested.
news.sky.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:40 AM
🚨 Saeema Syeda, of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI), said the poll shows:
"It's a manufactured panic, pushed by some politicians and parts of the media to distract from what actually matters to people.
https://bit.ly/4oekHXR
"It's a manufactured panic, pushed by some politicians and parts of the media to distract from what actually matters to people.
https://bit.ly/4oekHXR
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What happens when national migration policies grow harsher – but local people still care?
New research from Mette Berg & Eve Dickson shows how local advocates & welfare workers quietly build solidarity and challenge hostile systems.
#MigrationPolicy #Asylum
@ioe.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/mynxynxn
New research from Mette Berg & Eve Dickson shows how local advocates & welfare workers quietly build solidarity and challenge hostile systems.
#MigrationPolicy #Asylum
@ioe.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/mynxynxn
Research reveals disconnect between national and local level migration policies
As national migration policies are becoming more hostile, local advocates and welfare interlocutors step in to show solidarity with migrants, accoring to research on ideas and practices of deservingne...
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October 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
What happens when national migration policies grow harsher – but local people still care?
New research from Mette Berg & Eve Dickson shows how local advocates & welfare workers quietly build solidarity and challenge hostile systems.
#MigrationPolicy #Asylum
@ioe.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/mynxynxn
New research from Mette Berg & Eve Dickson shows how local advocates & welfare workers quietly build solidarity and challenge hostile systems.
#MigrationPolicy #Asylum
@ioe.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/mynxynxn
Great summary of the age assessment process by @freemovement.bsky.social New proposals of using AI for facial age estimation is just the latest escalation of a system based on weaponising age and 'childhood' to draw borders of deservingness #NRPF
In case you missed it: Age assessments: what happens when a child arrives in the UK? | Francesca Sella
Age assessments: what happens when a child arrives in the UK? - Free Movement
The Home Office does not publish statistics regarding children who are wrongly assessed as adults on arrival nor regarding the number of initial age
freemovement.org.uk
October 22, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Great summary of the age assessment process by @freemovement.bsky.social New proposals of using AI for facial age estimation is just the latest escalation of a system based on weaponising age and 'childhood' to draw borders of deservingness #NRPF
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Together with 70+ organisations we recently called on the government to scrap the Immigration White Paper.
Yesterday we came together with a simple message: safety, dignity and justice for ALL women – regardless of immigration status. #ScrapTheWhitePaper
southallblacksisters.org.uk/submissions-...
Yesterday we came together with a simple message: safety, dignity and justice for ALL women – regardless of immigration status. #ScrapTheWhitePaper
southallblacksisters.org.uk/submissions-...
October 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Together with 70+ organisations we recently called on the government to scrap the Immigration White Paper.
Yesterday we came together with a simple message: safety, dignity and justice for ALL women – regardless of immigration status. #ScrapTheWhitePaper
southallblacksisters.org.uk/submissions-...
Yesterday we came together with a simple message: safety, dignity and justice for ALL women – regardless of immigration status. #ScrapTheWhitePaper
southallblacksisters.org.uk/submissions-...
📢Join us for this Lunch Hour Lecture at UCL on the 13th of November. Rachel Rosen and Eve Dickson will present their long-term research on #NRPF 'Destitution by design: Immigration policy and the conditions of life-making' www.ucl.ac.uk/events/event...
Lunch Hour Lecture | Destitution by design
In this lecture, Prof Rachel Rosen and Dr Eve Dickson report on the impacts of impoverished migrant families without access to mainstream welfare in the UK.
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 8:49 AM
📢Join us for this Lunch Hour Lecture at UCL on the 13th of November. Rachel Rosen and Eve Dickson will present their long-term research on #NRPF 'Destitution by design: Immigration policy and the conditions of life-making' www.ucl.ac.uk/events/event...
Another painful example of 'deservingness' in migration policies and welfare being used as a border mechanism:
'It creates a tiered model of membership: citizens at the top, enjoying unconditional rights; long-term migrants below, required to constantly demonstrate they are "good enough" to remain.'
'It creates a tiered model of membership: citizens at the top, enjoying unconditional rights; long-term migrants below, required to constantly demonstrate they are "good enough" to remain.'
Labour’s plan to make migrants earn permanent residency by doubling the wait to 10 years & adding new tests turns belonging into an endless exam.
🔗 theconversation.com/labours-plan...
#ShabanaMahmood
#LabourConference
🔗 theconversation.com/labours-plan...
#ShabanaMahmood
#LabourConference
Labour’s plan for migrants to ‘earn’ permanent residency turns belonging into an endless exam
In this hierarchical system, migrants are kept on extended probation and judged by standards never applied to British nationals.
theconversation.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Another painful example of 'deservingness' in migration policies and welfare being used as a border mechanism:
'It creates a tiered model of membership: citizens at the top, enjoying unconditional rights; long-term migrants below, required to constantly demonstrate they are "good enough" to remain.'
'It creates a tiered model of membership: citizens at the top, enjoying unconditional rights; long-term migrants below, required to constantly demonstrate they are "good enough" to remain.'
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How are racially minoritised children central to the bordering of Britain?
@alasirriyeh.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social reflects on theories of migratisation, the work of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and the erasure of belonging.
#OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/vkEHpXp
@alasirriyeh.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social reflects on theories of migratisation, the work of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and the erasure of belonging.
#OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/vkEHpXp
September 15, 2025 at 6:38 AM
How are racially minoritised children central to the bordering of Britain?
@alasirriyeh.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social reflects on theories of migratisation, the work of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and the erasure of belonging.
#OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/vkEHpXp
@alasirriyeh.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social reflects on theories of migratisation, the work of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and the erasure of belonging.
#OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/vkEHpXp
'You lose yourself. You lose your sense of identity.' Powerful words from mothers living with #NRPF in this latest Shadows piece for @theconversation.com Rachel Rosen & Eve Dickson show how mothers and their children make lives in the absence of state support.
theconversation.com/homelessness...
theconversation.com/homelessness...
Homelessness, fear of starvation and racism – destitute migrant mothers and their children on the reality of life in the UK
Over six years, researchers have worked closely with 25 single-mother families living in the shadow of this policy - which even affects British citizens.
theconversation.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:42 AM
'You lose yourself. You lose your sense of identity.' Powerful words from mothers living with #NRPF in this latest Shadows piece for @theconversation.com Rachel Rosen & Eve Dickson show how mothers and their children make lives in the absence of state support.
theconversation.com/homelessness...
theconversation.com/homelessness...
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Next #SSAHE webinar: Bordering/Mothering, 9 October is a double book launch!
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Next webinar: Bordering/Mothering, 9 October
Register on EventBrite to receive a Zoom link. In this event, we will celebrate two new books by SSAHE members: Bordering social reproduction: Migrant mothers and children making lives in the …
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September 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Next #SSAHE webinar: Bordering/Mothering, 9 October is a double book launch!
ssahe.net/2025/09/03/n...
Book via eventbrite
ssahe.net/2025/09/03/n...
Book via eventbrite
📢Book Launch 'Bordering Social Reproduction' by Shadows team members Rachel Rosen & Eve Dickson. Hear from the authors about #NRPF and making lives in the shadows, in conversation with Gargi Bhattacharyya & Shirin Rai @isrfoundation.bsky.social
Please register here:
isrf.org/events/borde...
Please register here:
isrf.org/events/borde...
Bordering Social Reproduction | 25th September 2025 | Barnard's Inn Hall, London & Online
An in-person & online book launch and conversation with Professor Rachel Rosen & Dr Eve Dickson, authors of 'Bordering Social Reproduction: Migrant Mothers and Children Making Lives in the Shadows'.
isrf.org
September 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
📢Book Launch 'Bordering Social Reproduction' by Shadows team members Rachel Rosen & Eve Dickson. Hear from the authors about #NRPF and making lives in the shadows, in conversation with Gargi Bhattacharyya & Shirin Rai @isrfoundation.bsky.social
Please register here:
isrf.org/events/borde...
Please register here:
isrf.org/events/borde...
'If these reforms go ahead, we will continue to see high levels of poverty among children in families subject to immigration control.' @ilonapin.bsky.social analyses the Immigration White Paper and shows how denying access to benefits increases the hidden costs of prolonged poverty #NRPF
Debates on migrants' access to benefits have focused on the costs to welfare spending but there are also costs - both fiscal & social - of continuing to exclude children in resident migrant families from social security protection >> @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social via blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
The Government’s immigration policies are increasing child poverty - British Politics and Policy at LSE
The government has committed to tackling poverty among all children, including those subject to the UK’s asylum and immigration system. But recent reforms and proposals to immigration policy mean that...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
August 15, 2025 at 3:48 PM
'If these reforms go ahead, we will continue to see high levels of poverty among children in families subject to immigration control.' @ilonapin.bsky.social analyses the Immigration White Paper and shows how denying access to benefits increases the hidden costs of prolonged poverty #NRPF
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We’re proud to stand in solidarity with over 200 organisations to call for communities and the country to be brought together for a different way forward – one that’s compassionate and humane.
This must be a turning point.
Read the letter 👇🏾 @refugeestogether.bsky.social
This must be a turning point.
Read the letter 👇🏾 @refugeestogether.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We’re proud to stand in solidarity with over 200 organisations to call for communities and the country to be brought together for a different way forward – one that’s compassionate and humane.
This must be a turning point.
Read the letter 👇🏾 @refugeestogether.bsky.social
This must be a turning point.
Read the letter 👇🏾 @refugeestogether.bsky.social
Shadows team members Dr. Eve Dickson and Professor Rachel Rosen submitted evidence for the Child Poverty Taskforce this week
nrpfintheshadows.com/learn-more/
You can read the full report here: nrpfintheshadows.com/wp-content/u...
nrpfintheshadows.com/learn-more/
You can read the full report here: nrpfintheshadows.com/wp-content/u...
Learn more | NRPFintheshadows
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August 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Shadows team members Dr. Eve Dickson and Professor Rachel Rosen submitted evidence for the Child Poverty Taskforce this week
nrpfintheshadows.com/learn-more/
You can read the full report here: nrpfintheshadows.com/wp-content/u...
nrpfintheshadows.com/learn-more/
You can read the full report here: nrpfintheshadows.com/wp-content/u...
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We are very grateful to MP @kateosamormp.bsky.social
for submitting written questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department in support of our campaign.
Migrants are living in extreme poverty due to immigration & health charging. This disproportionately affects racialised women.
for submitting written questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department in support of our campaign.
Migrants are living in extreme poverty due to immigration & health charging. This disproportionately affects racialised women.
June 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
We are very grateful to MP @kateosamormp.bsky.social
for submitting written questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department in support of our campaign.
Migrants are living in extreme poverty due to immigration & health charging. This disproportionately affects racialised women.
for submitting written questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department in support of our campaign.
Migrants are living in extreme poverty due to immigration & health charging. This disproportionately affects racialised women.
Bordering social reproduction: Rachel Rosen & Eve Dickson published this important book with @manchesterup.bsky.social spotlighting how UK immigration control reaches inside families via #NRPF policies and drawing attention to how migrant mothers and children make lives in the shadows
July 22, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Bordering social reproduction: Rachel Rosen & Eve Dickson published this important book with @manchesterup.bsky.social spotlighting how UK immigration control reaches inside families via #NRPF policies and drawing attention to how migrant mothers and children make lives in the shadows
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New research by Eve Dickson and Rachel Rosen @sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social reveals the impact of lack of state financial support for children in migrant families. Read their new piece in Children and Young People now: tinyurl.com/3r9wuwp5 #NRPF #destitution #children #migration
'I was worried I was going to starve' - children's experiences of the NRPF system - CYP Now
Experts set out findings from latest research that reveals the impact of lack of state financial support for children in migrant families.
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July 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM
New research by Eve Dickson and Rachel Rosen @sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social reveals the impact of lack of state financial support for children in migrant families. Read their new piece in Children and Young People now: tinyurl.com/3r9wuwp5 #NRPF #destitution #children #migration
Welcome to the Shadows research project, which will investigate the deep and enduring effects of #NRPF on the lives of families and unaccompanied young people with insecure migration status in England.
Read about our project, team & partners here 👇 nrpfintheshadows.com
Read about our project, team & partners here 👇 nrpfintheshadows.com
July 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Welcome to the Shadows research project, which will investigate the deep and enduring effects of #NRPF on the lives of families and unaccompanied young people with insecure migration status in England.
Read about our project, team & partners here 👇 nrpfintheshadows.com
Read about our project, team & partners here 👇 nrpfintheshadows.com