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From the publisher:

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 Professor of Sociology at University College London. She was an ISRF Political Economy Fellow 2023-24, for her project Welfare Transformations and Children’s Reproductive Labour: Advancing Social Reproduction Theory Through Interdisciplinary Dialogue.

Eve Dickson is Senior Research Fellow at University College London. She is currently co-leading an ESRC-funded research project with Rachel Rosen entitled 'Social reproduction in the shadows: Making lives with 'no recourse to public funds' (NRPF)' (2023-2026).

Rachel and Eve will be joined by Gargi Bhattacharyya, Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre at UCL's Institute of Advanced Studies;and Shirin Rai, Professor of Politics and International Relations at SOAS University of London.