Sociograms in Critical Methodologies

Benchekroun, Rachel

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“…With participants’ informed consent, and when in private spaces, Rachel audio-recorded most in-depth conversations, or alternatively took notes during the conversations, and in all cases she made notes directly afterwards. The researcher asked participants to create a sociogram showing who was important to them (this usually took place during the second research encounter); this produced narratives about relationships and friendships, different forms of interaction and how these had changed over time (Benchekroun, 2020). It also helped inform subsequent conversations.…”

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Mothering in hostile environments: Migrant families negotiating the welfare and immigration regime nexus

BENCHEKROUN,

HUMPHRIS,

SIGONA

2024

Critical Social Policy

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This article examines the production, working and impact of the UK's hostile environment on migrant families with precarious legal status. Our approach is informed by two bodies of scholarly work: critical border studies and research on migrant families. We bridge these literatures to show how the hostile environment is neither a singular, neatly bounded space, nor limited to a set of interactions between immigration enforcement and a clear-cut group of people (so-called ‘illegal immigrants’). It affects the lives of a wider segment of the UK population, in particular racialised migrants and citizens, by making their legal status more insecure and precarious, and percolates in multiple and intersecting domains in the lives of families, such as education, housing and welfare, making them ambivalent sites of protection and safety as well as control and enforcement. Drawing on ethnographic engagement with families with insecure immigration statuses, we explore how the hostile environment manifests in the everyday lives of families; how the hostile environment circulates and is re-enacted within the micro-politics of families; and how families negotiate the continuous work of protecting children from the effects of the hostile environment. In conclusion we argue that dramatic and rapid shifts in immigration rules and regulations undermine the capacity of mothers to navigate the policy environment and welfare for their children and to shield them from the consequences of state-driven hostility towards immigrants.

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Mothering in hostile environments: Migrant families negotiating the welfare and immigration regime nexus

BENCHEKROUN,

HUMPHRIS,

SIGONA

2024

Critical Social Policy

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“…Our conversations were open-ended but focused on everyday mothering practices, friendships and other types of interpersonal relationships, and how these shaped access to support. I asked participants to create a ‘freestyle’ sociogram, which helped generate shared understandings and informed our subsequent conversations (Benchekroun, 2020; Ryan, 2020; Ryan et al, 2014; Tubaro et al, 2016). With participants’ consent and where appropriate, I audio-recorded our in-depth conversations; where this was not possible, I took notes during conversations.…”

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Mothers Doing Friendship in a Hostile Environment: Navigating Dialectical Tensions and Sharing Support

Benchekroun¹

2023

Sociology

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Increasingly hostile immigration policies in the UK produce insecure immigration statuses and exclusion from public services and mainstream welfare benefits. Little is known about how this precaritization affects racially minoritized mothers with insecure immigration statuses and ‘no recourse to public funds’. The ethnographic study on which this article is based explored the impact of hostile policies on mothering, and found that precaritization increases the significance of mothers’ informal support networks, including friendships. I show how hostile policies constrain mothers’ friendship practices, shaping access to support. I argue that while mothers share diverse forms of support through their everyday friendship practices, they have to navigate dialectical tensions (contradictions) that play out in ways specific to their precarious legal and financial positioning. Applying theories of friendship and relational dialectics, I highlight the importance of safe, sociable spaces and sustained ‘friendship work’ to navigate tensions and nurture friendships as sites of support.

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Strategic mothering in a hostile environment: how hostile immigration policies shape mothering, belonging and citizenship in the UK

Benchekroun¹

2023

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Sociograms in Critical Methodologies

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Mothering in hostile environments: Migrant families negotiating the welfare and immigration regime nexus

Mothering in hostile environments: Migrant families negotiating the welfare and immigration regime nexus

Mothers Doing Friendship in a Hostile Environment: Navigating Dialectical Tensions and Sharing Support

Strategic mothering in a hostile environment: how hostile immigration policies shape mothering, belonging and citizenship in the UK

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