Tomorrow (Wednesday, 3 April):

Article from academics at Shadows: Making lives with NRPF in Critical Social Policy journal CriticalSocialPolicy looks at ideas of 'deservingness' in #NRPF debates and campaigns 👇🏽 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

New blogpost: 'How old are you?' seems like a simple question, but through our research we have seen how age can be much more complicated and closely linked to #NRPF Malte Gembus explores how age is operationalised by the state to determine deservingness nrpfintheshadows.com/what-is-in-an-…

Moving report from Channel 4 News highlights longer-term impact of 'no recourse to public funds' #NRPF on children👇🏽 channel4.com/news/british-b…

We are very grateful to MP Kate Osamor MP for submitting written questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department in support of our campaign. Migrants are living in extreme poverty due to immigration & health charging. This disproportionately affects racialised women.

“I was worried I was going to starve.” Eve Dickson & Rachel Rosen in their powerful piece for Children & Young People Now shine a light on the harsh reality of children living under the conditions of NRPF policies cypnow.co.uk/content/analys…

Bordering social reproduction: Rachel Rosen & Eve Dickson published this important book with Manchester University Press, spotlighting how UK immigration control reaches inside families via #NRPF policies and drawing attention to how migrant mothers and children make lives in the shadows

Wondering how many of these care leavers were subject to NRPF 🤔 Education Committee We know from our research that specifically care leavers without access to public funds due to their migration status are at risk of homelessness #NRPF committees.parliament.uk/committee/203/…

'Why some migrants are deemed more deserving than others in Global Britain' Nando Sigona and Professor Michaela Benson on the UK's foreign policy role in producing an uneven immigration regime. This is the exact climate that weaponises welfare and produces #NRPF opendemocracy.net/en/podcasts/po…

Shadows team members Dr. Eve Dickson and Professor Rachel Rosen submitted evidence for the Child Poverty Taskforce this week nrpfintheshadows.com/learn-more/ You can read the full report here: nrpfintheshadows.com/wp-content/upl…

We’re proud to stand in solidarity with over 200 organisations to call for communities and the country to be brought together for a different way forward – one that’s compassionate and humane. This must be a turning point. Read the letter 👇🏾Together With Refugees 🧡

'If these reforms go ahead, we will continue to see high levels of poverty among children in families subject to immigration control.' Ilona Pinter 🧡 analyses the Immigration White Paper and shows how denying access to benefits prolonges poverty #NRPF blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol…

📢Book Launch 'Bordering Social Reproduction' by Shadows team members Rachel Rosen & Eve Dickson. Hear from the authors about #NRPF and making lives in the shadows, in conversation with Gargi Bhattacharyya & Shirin Rai ISRF Please register here: isrf.org/events/borderi…

And we know from our research that #NRPF is a major contributor to child homelessness. Curious to see these results...

Next Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment webinar: Bordering/Mothering, 9 October ssahe.net/2025/09/03/nex… book via eventbrite

'You lose yourself. You lose your sense of identity.' Powerful words from mothers living with #NRPF in this latest Shadows piece for The Conversation Rachel Rosen & Eve Dickson show how mothers and their children make lives in the absence of state support theconversation.com/homelessness-f…

Another painful example of 'deservingness' in migration policies and welfare being used as a border mechanism: 'a tiered model: citizens at the top, enjoying unconditional rights; long-term migrants below, required to constantly demonstrate they are "good enough" to remain.'

📢Join us for this Lunch Hour Lecture at UCL on the 13th of November. Rachel Rosen and Eve Dickson will present their long-term research on #NRPF 'Destitution by design: Immigration policy and the conditions of life-making' ucl.ac.uk/events/events/…

Along with 70+ organisations, we recently called on the government to scrap the Immigration White Paper. Yesterday we came together with a simple message: safety, dignity and justice for ALL women – regardless of immigration status. #ScrapTheWhitePaper southallblacksisters.org.uk/submissions-ca…

Great summary of the age assessment process by Free Movement New proposals of using AI for facial age estimation is just the latest escalation of a system based on weaponising age and 'childhood' to draw borders of deservingness #NRPF freemovement.org.uk/age-assessment…