Precarious Motherhood: Navigating relationships and support post-migration in the UK
Precarious Motherhood: Navigating relationships and support post-migration in the UK
by Rachel Benchekroun
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1800087993 | 197 Pages | True PDF | 2.14 MB
by Rachel Benchekroun
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1800087993 | 197 Pages | True PDF | 2.14 MB
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.