{"product_id":"bordering-social-reproduction-migrant-mothers-and-children-making-lives-in-the-shadows-hardcover-1","title":"Bordering Social Reproduction: Migrant Mothers and Children Making Lives in the Shadows - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRachel Rosen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eEve Dickson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBordering 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn urgent, painful, insightful read, this book is destined to become a key work in understanding how and why the ill-treatment of children remains so central to UK state racism.\u003cbr\u003e Gargi Bhattacharyya, Professor and Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation, UCL \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e If borders are deployed by states to \u003ci\u003eshape\u003c\/i\u003e lives, this book shows us how migrants continue to \u003ci\u003emake \u003c\/i\u003elives by enrolling optimism, strength and refusals.\u003cbr\u003e Tithi Bhattacharya, Associate Professor of South Asian History, Purdue University \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This compelling examination of the brutality of NRPF sensitively documents families' capacities to prevail, creating and maintaining meaningful lives in the shadows of deep hardship.\u003cbr\u003e Cindi Katz, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, CUNY Graduate Center \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eBordering social reproduction\u003c\/i\u003e provides rich ethnographic insights into the complexities of the everyday lives of migrant mothers and children who are subject to the United Kingdom's 'no recourse to public funds' (NRPF) policy, a controversial immigration condition prohibiting access to most welfare benefits for even the most destitute. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Developing innovative theorisations of welfare bordering, this book shows how enforced destitution and debt work alongside detention and deportation as exclusionary technologies of the racial state. \u003ci\u003eBordering social reproduction\u003c\/i\u003e advances the novel concept of weathering to understand mothers' and children's life-making practices under duress: neither acts of heroic resilience nor solely symptomatic of lives rendered disposable, but indications of the fragility of repressive migration regimes and, on occasion, the refusal to accept their terms of existence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Making incisive interventions into theoretical discussions around social reproduction, bordering and childhood, this engaging book invites us to think carefully about the relationship between welfare states and border regimes, and how we might contest them.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRachel Rosen is a Professor of Sociology at University College London\u003cbr\u003eEve Dickson is a Senior Research Fellow at University College London\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 29, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47685305893085,"sku":"9781526189271","price":68.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/bXULKXtz_y9781526189271_fc92e992-b1b3-4a79-8324-966aa95d27ca.webp?v=1774008294","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/bordering-social-reproduction-migrant-mothers-and-children-making-lives-in-the-shadows-hardcover-1","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}