Shadows: Making lives with NRPF

Shadows is a research project investigating social reproduction, or how migrant families and unaccompanied young people make and sustain their lives with NRPF

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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 👇 https://t.co/UW7QsGu3lF…

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Inspiring exchange at yesterday's talk on Curating Social Research. Rachel Rosen in conversation with Alice Millar and
@YasminGun
about the politics of representation and the Fragments of Existence Exhibition https://t.co/yLzmIorMLz

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Our exhibition at Rich Mix is opening next week! Still time to sign up for our exciting event programme.
https://t.co/qa49VCs49s

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Our exhibition programme at Rich Mix is packed with interesting events Join us on Tuesday 19May 6pm for 'Curating social research:Experiments in public sociology'
@YasminGun and Alice Millar in conversation with Rachel Rosen about Fragments of Existence https://t.co/oDs9ovEPAH

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Our exhibition @RichMixLondon is approaching and we’re excited to share our upcoming event programme!

Join us on Tuesday 26May 10am–3pm for a day full of storytelling and arts activities for children and parents to learn more about #NRPF

Please register https://t.co/meYGENyCER

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📢'Gathering Fragments and Tracing Threads' A Workshop. 22nd of May, 5-7 pm. We are excited to announce this special event and workshop with artist Meera Shakti Osborne to explore our exhibition on people's experiences of living with #NRPF https://t.co/NSj9VbnkfS

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📢New policy briefing published. In collaboration with @UnitedImpactUK we revisited the Project 17 report 'Not seen, Not Heard' from 2019 showing powerfully how #NRPF continues to affect and punish the most impoverished children in the UK. #EndNRPF
https://t.co/Dy4xpJIs6v

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‘No sense of humanity’ – the hidden violence of No Recourse to Public Funds’ Our project partners from South London Refugee Association (SLRA) and Project 17 produced this powerful reminder of the impact that #NRPF policies have on people’s lives. https://t.co/4Q5Z0Vaj9M

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The government released their 10 year strategy to tackle child poverty in the UK. We welcome that #NRPF is mentioned in it, but it shows a failure to end the condition, which leaves thousands of migrant children homeless and destitute ⬇️📽️

https://t.co/7MwNHqdmg6

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Our latest policy briefing on child poverty with Project 17 makes a clear recommendation: End #NRPF policies! Inadequate housing, food insecurity, lack of understanding children's experiences and emotional burdens are all consequences of bordering welfare.
https://t.co/eaVLP2dRSP

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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.
https://t.co/3qyoEmhzVE

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In 2021 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 https://t.co/NWvzEfHJcT

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Great summary of the age assessment process by
@freemovementlaw 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
https://t.co/SvB4NEfGhB

[Southall Black Sisters @SBSisters]

Along 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

https://t.co/hvGxVBJhBk

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📢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' https://t.co/3CQlG3P8eB

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Another painful example of 'deservingness' in migration policies and welfare being used as a border mechanism:
'a tiered model: citizens at the top, enjoying unconditional rights; long-term migrants below, required to constantly demonstrate they are "good enough" to remain.'

[Nando Sigona @nandosigona]

#Labour’s proposals divide society into the fully entitled and the permanently probationary. In this hierarchical system of belonging, migrants are kept on extended probation and judged by standards not applied to British nationals

#LabourConference2025
https://t.co/IdjOwuIm6u

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'You lose yourself. You lose your sense of identity.' Powerful words from mothers living with #NRPF in this latest Shadows piece for @ConversationUK
Rachel Rosen & Eve Dickson show how mothers and their children make lives in the absence of state support https://t.co/3YCQxAz8ic

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Next @ssahe_uk webinar: Bordering/Mothering, 9 October https://t.co/VFhtjefceJ
book via eventbrite

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And we know from our research that #NRPF is a major contributor to child homelessness. Curious to see these results...

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📢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_at_home & Shirin Rai @_ISRF
Please register here:
https://t.co/CnNqLfOikk