It's been an amazing couple of years on @shadowsnrpf.bsky.social alongside a wonderful team of colleagues and co-researchers, partner orgs and some really inspiring participants. I am proud to have been part of this project highlighting the harsh effects of #NRPF and hostile environment policies

Throwback to when our workshop "Gathering fragments and tracing threads" brought people together as part of our exhibition — a space for connection and expression around the harsh realities of NRPF. Missed it? The exhibition is now available online: nrpfintheshadows.com/exhibition/ #NRPF

In his first speech as Prime Minister Andy Burnham pledged to end rough sleeping in this country. If he wants to end rough sleeping, he must scrap the hostile immigration rules that push people onto the streets. Here's why 👇

We're honoured to share 'Fragments of Existence': a free resource bringing together powerful testimonies from families and young people living under No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF). These stories demand to be heard. nrpfintheshadows.com/learn-more/#... #NRPF #MigrantRights #SocialJustice

Inspiring exchange at yesterday's talk on Curating Social Research. Rachel Rosen in conversation with Alice Millar and @anilsghost.bsky.social about the politics of representation and the Fragments of Existence Exhibition nrpfintheshadows.com/fragments-of...

If you can make it to Shoreditch visit Rich Mix & the Fragments of Existence exhibition on the lives of families and unaccompanied young people with insecure migration status @shadowsnrpf.bsky.social

Our exhibition at Rich Mix is opening next week! Still time to sign up for our exciting event programme. richmix.org.uk/events/fragm...

Fragments of existence: testimonies of life with no recourse to public funds - Rich Mix

NRPF is an immigration condition which prevents people from accessing welfare support, social housing and other services. Based on personal accounts of children, young people, and parents living with ...

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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...

UK migrant families face giving up vital in-work benefits to avoid being ‘punished’

Under Shabana Mahmood’s proposals, wait for settled status would double to 20 years if public funds used while in work

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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?...

'No sense of humanity' - the hidden violence of No Recourse to Public Funds

YouTube video by South London Refugee Association

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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...

The harmful impact of NRPF

YouTube video by United Impact

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"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:

How Europe’s Migration Rules Keep Creating the “Irregular Migrants” They Claim to Catch

What if irregular migration is not something that happens despite the system, but because of it?

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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.

Praxis, for migrants and refugees@praxisprojects.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Last week the Government announced changes to settlement, turning the lives of millions of people upside down. Here's what we know so far 👉 www.praxis.org.uk/news/explain... Created with @gmiau.bsky.social

“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

Chaminda Jayanetti@cjayanetti.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The government’s decision to halve the time limit for refugees to leave Home Office accommodation is driving people into homelessness and exploitation, according to migrant rights campaigners and homelessness charities By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...

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...

UK government set to make support for asylum seekers ‘discretionary’

Home secretary expected to change system to deny help to those who can work or who have assets

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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...

‘Punishing those who do the wrong thing’: Enforcing destitution and debt through the UK’s family migration rules - Eve Dickson, Rachel Rosen, 2021

In 2012, the ‘no recourse to public funds’ (NRPF) condition was extended to long-standing migrant families in the UK who had previously achieved rights to resid...

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🚨 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

'Manufactured panic': Immigration not near top of most people's concerns, poll suggests

The cost of living, health, crime, and housing are much higher on people's lists of personal worries, a YouGov survey has suggested.

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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

Research reveals disconnect between national and local level migration policies

As national migration policies are becoming more hostile, local advocates and welfare interlocutors step in to show solidarity with migrants, accoring to research on ideas and practices of deservingne...

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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

Free Movement@freemovement.bsky.social · 10mo ago

In case you missed it: Age assessments: what happens when a child arrives in the UK? | Francesca Sella

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...

Lunch Hour Lecture | Destitution by design

In this lecture, Prof Rachel Rosen and Dr Eve Dickson report on the impacts of impoverished migrant families without access to mainstream welfare in the UK.

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