In this blog, we consider the changing groups of people affected by NRPF and show how new legislation is rapidly altering the policy landscape.
The changing face of NRPF
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A conversation on ‘welfare bordering’: From Mexico to the UK
In this blog, Valentina Glockner, one of the Shadows project advisors, and Rachel Rosen, Shadows co-lead, discuss the concept of ‘welfare bordering’ across contexts.
Why are we doing ethnography?
In our previous blog post, we explained that we would be taking a decolonial view in our long-term ethnographic research with families and unaccompanied young people with no recourse to public funds (NRPF), to help us better understand and explain the purposes, persistence and expansion of NRPF.
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The changing face of NRPF
The changing face of NRPF When the then Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed his ignorance of the long-established ‘no recourse to public funds’ (NRPF) immigration rule in 2020, seemingly dismayed that many UK residents were locked out of the welfare system during...
A conversation on ‘welfare bordering’: From Mexico to the UK
A conversation on ‘welfare bordering’: From Mexico to the UK In this blog, Valentina Glockner, one of the Shadows project advisors, and Rachel Rosen, Shadows co-lead, discuss the concept of ‘welfare bordering’ across contexts. Rachel: Thanks so much for speaking with...
Why are we doing ethnography?
Why are we doing ethnography? ‘In the context of such enormous structural violence, how was it possible to imagine that a beautiful life is possible? Even more unthinkable was the idea that one might create it, not in the future, but now.’ Saidiya Hartman in...
Is it possible to be ethnographic and decolonial?
Is it possible to be ethnographic and decolonial? In our previous blog post, we explained that we would be taking a decolonial view in our long-term ethnographic research with families and unaccompanied young people with no recourse to public funds (NRPF), to help us...
Welcome to the Shadows research project
Welcome to the Shadows research project What does it mean to make and sustain a life across borders when you are denied the economic means to do so? And to do that work of making life day after day, month after month, year after year? How are lives unmade, made, and...