Bordering Social Reproduction
Migrant Mothers and Children Making Lives in the Shadows
Seiten
2025
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-8927-1 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-8927-1 (ISBN)
Bordering social reproduction explores how migrants subjected to policies that seek to deny them the means of life endeavour to make and sustain meaningful lives. It develops innovative theorisations of welfare bordering and advances the novel concept of weathering to comprehend mother’s and children’s life-making practices under duress. -- .
Bordering social reproduction 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. -- .
Bordering social reproduction 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. -- .
Rachel Rosen is a Professor of Sociology at University College London Eve Dickson is a Senior Research Fellow at University College London -- .
Introduction Bordering social reproduction
1 Enforcing destitution and debt
2 Weathering through social reproduction
3 Existential erasure and its discontents
4 Childhood in the shadows
5 Secrets and silences
6 Doing time
7 (En)countering ‘race’
Conclusion Contesting welfare bordering -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.04.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Women on the Move |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 450 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-8927-5 / 1526189275 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-8927-1 / 9781526189271 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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