Attended the NRPF mass lobby in Parliament (not a protest) with ~500 people calling for humane migration policies—“We need solutions, not scapegoats” (Olivia Blake).
Rules matter, but they must be human—because migration is a human right.
#HumanRights #MigrationPolicy #NRPF #SocialJustice
📢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...
Recording a family has NRPF is not assessment.
Understanding what it means inside their daily life — the sleeplessness, the fear, the chronic exhaustion — is.
Empathy is not a soft skill. It is accuracy.
www.bakosanctuary.org.uk
#Safeguarding #NRPF #BAKOSanctuary
3.6 million people in the UK hold NRPF visas. No Universal Credit. No housing benefit. No safety net — at exactly the moment it's needed most. We help families understand what NRPF does — and does not — restrict. #NRPF #MigrantFamilies #BAKOSanctuary
Only 24% of domestic abuse incidents reach police. For women whose visa is tied to their abuser, whose NRPF removes the financial exit — that 24% is a ceiling, not a floor. We sit inside that gap. #DomesticAbuse #NRPF #BAKOSanctuary
Maggie Brunjes CEO @homelessnetwork.scot reminds us that Housing Justice in Scotland means safe, suitable housing for all of us 🏡 including people with #NRPF
www.insidehousing.co.uk/comment/true...
‘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?...
You can make a difference by writing to your MP using Project 17’s pre-filled template and adding your voice to the campaign to end NRPF:
👉 win.newmode.net/proj...
#NRPF #Project17 #UnitedImpact #MigrantRights #Lewisham #SouthEastLondon
We welcome plans for statutory guidance for local authorities supporting children in families with #NRPF under Section 17 of the Children Act 1989. This must come from @departmentforedu.bsky.social not the @ukhomeoffice.bsky.social. It must centre the welfare of the child.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
The strategy will lift other children out of poverty, but the government’s proposed plans to increase the time migrants have to wait to gain settlement, will push thousands more children with NRPF in to deep long-lasting poverty. Write to your MP, end #NRPF ⬇️✍️
win.newmode.net/project17/wi...
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...
Cindy, one of our Coproduction partners, joined us to discuss No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) and its impact on financial security, plus why coproduction matters. Listen here: https://youtu.be/yQsZunOG1J8 #NRPF #CoProduction
With your help, we can continue to help women who are fleeing #DomesticAbuse and #HarmfulPractices, and offer emergency support when they have nowhere else to turn - particularly those whose #NRPF status means they have limited financial independence.
We have made an animation, to show how the 'No Recourse to Public Funds' immigration condition, has harmed our families:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4x3...
Please write to your MP using our pre-filled letter template, to ask them to call for an end to #NRPF:
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win.newmode.net/project17/wi...
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.
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Increased instability for people trying to build safe and secure lives, particularly families, will have a disastrous impact on their wellbeing, which will be further exacerbated by their extended #NRPF status.
AWRC finds these proposed changes deeply concerning. They will have significant implications for the services we offer and the women we support with #NRPF status who are experiencing #DomesticAbuse and #HarmfulPractices, such as:
Black and white sketch of a person in derelict setting. White text reads "Social reproduction in the shadows"
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...
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
📢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...
No Recourse to Public Funds UK 2025: eVisa transition, 73% success rate, 3.6M affected, policy updates & benefit exceptions. Expert NRPF guide from Connaught Law. buff.ly/h1cox6e #NRPF #UKImmigration #Benefits #Immigration
We are hiring!!
Full time Development Worker
Leading on expanding our Partnership, supporting the Lived Experience Group and managing key Partnership comms, including drafting policy responses, and managing our website and social media.
Closes 4th July acvo.org.uk/vacancies/nr...
#NRPF #jobs
'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...
📢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
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
nrpfintheshadows.com/what-is-in-a... A blog I wrote a little while ago for @shadowsnrpf.bsky.social 'How old are you?' seems like a simple question, but in my research I have seen how age can be much more complicated and operationalised to determine deservingness. #NRPF
