Dr Eve Dickson

Profile

Eve is a Research Fellow in the Social Research Institute at UCL. She works across cultural, psychosocial, and childhood studies. Her current research is concerned with the relationship between immigration and welfare controls, with a focus on families and children. She is co-investigator on the ESRC-funded project, ‘Social reproduction in the shadows: Making lives with no recourse to public funds’. 

Research

Publications

• Dickson, E., Rosen, R., & Sorinmade, K. (2023). Hunger or indebtedness? Enforcing migrant destitution, racializing debt. The Entangled Legacies of Empire: Race, Finance & Inequality. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
• Dickson, E. (2022). (No) recourse to lunch: a frontline view of free school meals and immigration control during the COVID-19 pandemic. Families, Relationships and Societies. doi:10.1332/204674320x16076180418172.
• Dickson, E., & Rosen, R. (2020). ‘Punishing those who do the wrong thing’: Enforcing destitution and debt through the UK’s family migration rules. Critical Social Policy. doi:10.1177/0261018320980634.

Expertise