Vicki Squire Family reunification policies in Europe are notoriously limited in terms of which family members count as worthy of [...]
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Feeling the Squeeze: Thinking Psychosocially about Low-to-Middle Income Families in Austerity
Alison Stenning In her first statement as Prime Minister, Theresa May sympathised with those ‘ordinary’ families who ‘just about manage’, with [...]
Read moreWhat does a genuine lesbian/gay relationship look like in the eyes of asylum decision makers?
Nina Held How do you know that they are not just friends, not just two women who know each other well, [...]
Read moreMaking do and getting by? Beyond a romantic politics of austerity and crisis
Sarah Marie Hall and Helen Holmes Whether trading food, learning to crochet or baking a 4-tier raspberry pavlova from scratch and [...]
Read moreChildren of the financial crisis
Sevasti-Melissa Nolas, Christos Varvantakis and Vinnarasan Aruldoss What does the recent financial crisis look like through the eyes of children in [...]
Read moreLooking at family migration through the lens of ‘integration crisis’: a narrative reflection
Elena Vacchelli The Casey Review (2016) presents an underlying crisis narrative with regard to a perceived lack of integration of Muslim [...]
Read moreMigrant mothers in austere times: Finding love in a hopeless place?
Agata Lisiak Advertised as measures to reduce the government budget deficit, the austerity-driven reforms introduced in 2010 by David Cameron's government [...]
Read moreBefriending Kinships In Immigration Detention In The UK
Joanne Vincett I often think these girls could be my daughters' (Alice, a Yarls Wood Befriender) The volunteer visitor group, Yarl's Wood Befrienders [...]
Read moreJust a room in a shared house: The impact of housing benefit cuts on single parents with non-resident children
Iliana Ortega-Alcázar, Eleanor Wilkinson In 2012, government changes to the age-threshold of the Shared Accommodation Rate (SAR) came into effect. This [...]
Read moreCrisis upon Crisis: Migrant families with No Recourse to Public Funds
Umut Erel, Maggie O'Neill, Tracey Reynolds, and Erene Kaptani The No Recourse to Public Funding (NRPF) policy means that migrants subject [...]
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