by Malte Gembus | 22 Oct 2024 | blog
What’s in an age When I was a youth worker, I had a whole repertoire of ‘get to know you’ games. I always carried around an imaginary ‘tool box’, so to speak, consisting of games and activities that helped participants to get to know each other, which according...
by Abi Brunswick | 12 Feb 2024 | blog
Section 17: Valuable safety net, but no justification for NRPF People suffer hugely because they have no recourse to public funds (NRPF), and supporting families to access accommodation and money is a practical way of alleviating some of that suffering. However, in...
by Rachel Rosen | 14 Dec 2023 | blog
Honouring Valentina Glockner It is with deep sadness that we share the news that Valentina Glockner, a member of the Shadows project advisory team, passed away on 7th December 2023. I met Valentina two days before the first Covid-19 lockdown. She had come to London...
by S Khan, Eve Dickson | 7 Nov 2023 | blog
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...
by Valentina Glockner, Rachel Rosen | 29 Aug 2023 | blog
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...
by S Khan | 1 Aug 2023 | blog
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...
