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Bordering Social Reproduction : Migrant Mothers and Children Making Lives in the Shadows

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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.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781526189271
  • ISBN-10: 1526189275
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Publish Date: April 2025
  • Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.99 pounds
  • Page Count: 192

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