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Mothers doing friendship in a hostile environment
23 April 2024, 1:15 pm–2:15 pm
Join this event to hear Rachel Benchekroun explore how insecure immigration statuses and financial precarity affect friendships among mothers.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Sonya Sharma
Location
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Room G0355-59 Gordon SquareLondonWC1H 0NU
Many women who have migrated to the UK, settled and become mothers face intersecting challenges. For mothers living in liminality, friendships can play a vital role in accessing and sharing material, financial, practical and emotional support.
In this seminar, Rachel highlights how places and spaces intersect with social identities, insecure immigration statuses and financial precarity to shape friendship practices. She will show how different places and spaces constrain or create opportunities for mothers to initiate, develop and sustain friendships and how mothers must navigate emerging tensions within different kinds of everyday spaces.
This in-person event will be particularly useful for researchers, policymakers and academics interested in families, migration, immigration policies, identity, mothering and friendship.
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About the Speaker
Dr Rachel Benchekroun
Senior Research Fellow at TCRU
As an ESRC postdoctoral fellow at TCRU (2022-2023), Dr Rachel Benchekroun undertook public engagement activities and shared findings from her doctoral research on the impact of insecure immigration statuses, financial precarity and hostile immigration policies on mothers' interpersonal relationships and access to support.
She is now a Senior Research Fellow on the Fair Food Futures UK project (part of the Act Early consortium).
More about Dr Rachel Benchekroun