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"The next day you are on the street": The tactics of time in managing welfare support to young people subject to immigration control as they make the transition to adulthood

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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
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Part of the COMPAS Seminar Series Trinity 2014- Borders of the welfare state: Exploring the tensions between migration enforcement and welfare state entitlements
Young people who arrive in the UK from outside Europe without a parent or legal guardian are institutionally categorised according to a range of possible legal statuses and usually afforded time-limited Leave to Remain in the UK. These categorisations are associated with specific welfare entitlements which tend to diminish over time and become particularly uncertain as young people transition into ‘adulthood’. Situated within a broader research programme examining the link between migration, ‘wellbeing’ and ‘futures’, this paper examines the multiple transitions imposed on young people subject to immigration control as they approach the age of 18 and beyond, (from child to ‘adult’, from being accorded a temporary residence permit to more permanent leave to remain or from legality to ‘illegality’) and the implications for their access to various dimensions of welfare provision. This talk shows how different components of the ‘state’ have time limitations at their disposal to control access to welfare and state support according to chronological age. From young people’s perspectives, such ‘tactics’ fundamentally control their trajectories and future prospects unless they can formulate strategies of their own to counter such tactics.

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Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
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Elaine Chase
Jenny Allsopp
Keywords
politics
youth
immigration
migration
COMPAS.
Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Date Added: 29/07/2014
Duration: 00:44:47

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