Our exhibition programme at Rich Mix is packed with interesting events Join us on Tuesday 19May 6pm for 'Curating social research:Experiments in public sociology' @anilsghost.bsky.social and Alice Millar in conversation with Rachel Rosen about Fragments of Existence www.outsavvy.com/event/35865/...

Our exhibition at Rich Mix is approaching and we’re excited to share our upcoming event programme! Join us on Tuesday 26May 10am–3pm for an engaging Family Day with storytelling and arts activities for children and parents to learn more about #NRPF Please register www.outsavvy.com/event/35682/...

📢'Gathering Fragments and Tracing Threads' A Workshop. 22nd of May, 5-7 pm. We are excited to announce this special event and workshop with artist Meera Shakti Osborne to explore our exhibition on people's experiences of living with #NRPF Sign up here www.outsavvy.com/event/35346/...

Today we launch the first commentary in our Real Impact Series, analysing the government’s strategy to tackle violence against women and girls and its failure to address No Recourse to Public Funds. Read here: southallblacksisters.org.uk/news/nrpf-th... 1/ 🧵

📢New policy briefing published. In collaboration with @unitedimpactuk.bsky.social we revisited the Project 17 report 'Not seen, Not Heard' from 2019 showing powerfully how #NRPF continues to affect and punish the most impoverished children in the UK. #EndNRPF www.project17.org.uk/media/8de67c...

Yesterday 100s of people from across the UK came together in Parliament to meet with their MPs about the Govt.'s disastrous earned settlement plans. Together, we shared our concerns directly with 80+ MPs. A massive thank you to everyone who joined & helped make it happen. This is just the start.

📣📣📣 1/ Coverage in @theguardian.com of our research on how the govt's so-called 'earned settlement model' will plunge racialised British children into poverty by punishing their parents for receiving basic state support. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Strong stuff from the Chancellor 💪🏻 One slight prob: her gov's NRPF policy (which restricts access to MOST benefits not just UC & which they're planning to extend to those w/ ILR) does precisely this: discriminates between children based on where parents are from www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘No sense of humanity’ – the hidden violence of No Recourse to Public Funds’ Our project partners from South London Refugee Association (SLRA) and Project 17 produced this powerful reminder of the impact that #NRPF policies have on people’s lives. youtu.be/zDnlxtsfI7k?...

The government released their 10 year strategy to tackle child poverty in the UK. We welcome that #NRPF is mentioned in it, but it shows a failure to end the condition, which leaves thousands of migrant children homeless and destitute ⬇️📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4x3...

"Lecturers, doctors, landlords and employers have been turned into border guards." A Professor of International Migration argues that states do not reduce immigrant irregularity — they create it. By @nandosigona.bsky.social Read now:

Our latest policy briefing on child poverty with Project 17 makes a clear recommendation: End #NRPF policies! Inadequate housing, food insecurity, lack of understanding children's experiences and emotional burdens are all consequences of bordering welfare. nrpfintheshadows.com/wp-content/u...

The proposed settlement changes are really difficult to understand and very stressful if you or someone you know is a migrant. Read our explainer below so you can stay up to date with what's happening.

“By rushing through these draconian immigration reforms now – at precisely the same moment the Government proclaims it is investing to end homelessness – we know the very opposite will happen: more people at risk of destitution and even sleeping on the streets." @josephinewy.bsky.social

Through ethnographic fieldwork, decolonial policy analysis, and creative co-production Shadows project @shadowsnrpf.bsky.social explores how migrant families and young people with no access to public funds survive and create lives in England. Learn more: nrpfintheshadows.com #NRPF #SocialJustice

On the train back from meeting with a young research participant. It's surreal sometimes to have such positive and amazing interactions with people just to then be bombarded by divisive rhetoric and politics that demonise refugees #NRPF @shadowsnrpf.bsky.social

Among the other draconian changes proposed by the Home Secretary, this opens a completely new horizon of 'welfare' as bordering. We are reaching a new dimension of #NRPF policies in the UK which leads to nothing but more suffering for more people. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

In 2021, Shadows team members Eve Dickson & Rachel Rosen wrote about the “impossibility of the 10-year route” to ILR after the 2012 family migration reforms. In 2025 the government’s #WhitePaper proposes this route as the norm for all applicants, drastically extending #NRPF doi.org/10.1177/0261...

🚨 Saeema Syeda, of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI), said the poll shows: "It's a manufactured panic, pushed by some politicians and parts of the media to distract from what actually matters to people. https://bit.ly/4oekHXR

What happens when national migration policies grow harsher – but local people still care? New research from Mette Berg & Eve Dickson shows how local advocates & welfare workers quietly build solidarity and challenge hostile systems. #MigrationPolicy #Asylum @ioe.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mynxynxn

Great summary of the age assessment process by @freemovement.bsky.social 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

Together 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-...

📢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' www.ucl.ac.uk/events/event...

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

How are racially minoritised children central to the bordering of Britain? @alasirriyeh.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social reflects on theories of migratisation, the work of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian and the erasure of belonging. #OpenAccess @journals.sagepub.com buff.ly/vkEHpXp

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

Next #SSAHE webinar: Bordering/Mothering, 9 October is a double book launch! ssahe.net/2025/09/03/n... Book via eventbrite

📢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 @isrfoundation.bsky.social Please register here: isrf.org/events/borde...

'If these reforms go ahead, we will continue to see high levels of poverty among children in families subject to immigration control.' @ilonapin.bsky.social analyses the Immigration White Paper and shows how denying access to benefits increases the hidden costs of prolonged poverty #NRPF

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 👇🏾 @refugeestogether.bsky.social

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/u...

We are very grateful to MP @kateosamormp.bsky.social 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.

Bordering social reproduction: Rachel Rosen & Eve Dickson published this important book with @manchesterup.bsky.social 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

New research by Eve Dickson and Rachel Rosen @sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social reveals the impact of lack of state financial support for children in migrant families. Read their new piece in Children and Young People now: tinyurl.com/3r9wuwp5 #NRPF #destitution #children #migration

Welcome to the Shadows research project, which will investigate the deep and enduring effects of #NRPF on the lives of families and unaccompanied young people with insecure migration status in England. Read about our project, team & partners here 👇 nrpfintheshadows.com