Destitution [ des-ti-too-shuhn] Noun: lack of the means of subsistence; utter poverty; deprivation, lack, or absence. Destitution is a word I have been hearing over and over in our fieldwork about migrant families with ‘no recourse to public funds’ (NRPF), a...
When I first started telling colleagues and friends about Migrants and Solidarities: Negotiating deservingness in welfare micropublics (Solidarities), I was often greeted with the response: “Great project, but what on earth do you mean by welfare micropublics?” The...
A conversation about ’solidarity’ with the Academic Advisory Board of the Solidarities research project: Prof Bridget Anderson, Bristol University Prof Vincent Dubois, Strasbourg University Prof Karen Fog Olwig, Copenhagen...
Eve Dickson, Rachel Rosen, and Kehinde Sorinmade (forthcoming) Hunger or indebtedness? Enforcing migrant destitution, racializing debt. In Clea Bourne, Paul Gilbert, Max Haiven and Johnna Montgomerie (Eds). Imagining the unseen: 20 pictures of debt’s empire,...
