Benchekroun, Rachel;
(2025)
Precarious motherhood: navigating relationships and support post-migration in the UK.
[Book].
UCL Press: London.
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Abstract
Precarious Motherhood explores the experiences of racially minoritised mothers living with insecure immigration status and financial hardship in London, UK. It exposes the impact of hostile immigration policies and precarity on mothers’ interpersonal relationships and access to support. The author draws attention to how mothers manage the constraints they face and enact belonging. She then explores the impact on mothers’ couple relationships, friendships, adult kin relationships and faith-based networks. The book underlines the vital role of personal relationships in providing access to resources and support, but also demonstrates how precariously positioned mothers must carefully navigate relational tensions in their everyday lives. It highlights how social infrastructure facilitates relational practices, helping mothers to sustain their children’s wellbeing and their own.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Precarious motherhood: navigating relationships and support post-migration in the UK |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800088016 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800088016 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800088016 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Author, 2025 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. Every effort has been made to identify and contact copyright holders and any omission or error will be corrected if notification is made to the publisher. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Benchekroun, R. 2025. Precarious Motherhood: Navigating relationships and support postmigration in the UK. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800088016 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | migration, insecure immigration status, belonging, citizenship, hostile immigration policies, strategic mothering |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10204823 |
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