The exceptions to child exceptionalism

The exceptions to child exceptionalism

Racialised migrant ‘deservingness’ and the UK’s free school meal debates Rosen, R. and E. Dickson (2024). “The exceptions to child exceptionalism: Racialised migrant ‘deservingness’ and the UK’s free school meal debates.” Critical Social Policy...
Between immigration controls and child protection policies

Between immigration controls and child protection policies

There are around 1.376 million people with time-limited ‘leave to remain’ who are subject to the ‘no recourse to public funds’ (NRPF) condition in the UK (Fernandez-Reino, 2020), while a further 674,000 undocumented people have NRPF by default (Jolly et al., 2020)....
Immigration controls: from the ‘pauper alien’ to NRPF

Immigration controls: from the ‘pauper alien’ to NRPF

Most discussions of the UK’s ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’ immigration rule would suggest that its origins lie in the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. The current iteration of the policy, which prevents people ‘subject to immigration control’ from accessing most...