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...

Punishing Those Who Do the Wrong Thing

Eve Dickson and Rachel Rosen (2020)  “Punishing Those Who Do the Wrong Thing”: Enforcing Destitution and Debt through the Uk’s Family Migration Rules. Critical Social Policy (online first) In 2012, the ‘no recourse to public funds’ (NRPF) condition was...