Actualment, la provisió d’habitatge per a sol·licitants d’asil al Regne Unit opera enmig d’una tensió creixent entre l’agenda de governança migratòria i el treball reproductiu de les famílies migrades. La majoria de sol·licitants d’asil són allotjats en hotels en zones urbanes i les seves perifèries, proporcionats pel govern a través de la subcontractació d’empreses privades. A la pràctica una oportunitat de negoci pel sector privat, l’habitatge d’asil forma part de l’estratègia de fronterització introduïda pel “hostile environment” britànic, articulant una economia política de control migratori al voltant de l’assignació diferencial dels mitjans per la reproducció social. Entre d’altres (infra)estructures de dissuasió migratòria, és a través de la provisió incerta, temporal i precària d’habitatge que l’Estat delimita les condicions de possibilitat i viabilitat per la vida migrant al Regne Unit. Basant-se en quinze mesos de recerca etnogràfica amb mares sol·licitants d’asil a Londres, aquesta comunicació reflexiona sobre la seva convicció que la provisió d’habitatge opera amb l’objectiu de “fer emmalaltir els seus fills, per tal que marxin del país”. Segons els seus testimonis, aproximar-nos a la idea de fronteritzar el Regne Unit amb una mirada posada en l’habitatge requereix pensar com l’hostilitat de la governança migratòria s’expressa en les espacialitats i sociabilitats més íntimes de la llar, operant a través dels cossos i les relacions de cures a l’espai domèstic. L’hostilitat cap a la migració, concloc, reverbera a través de les dificultats per maternar en habitacions d’hotel i el malestar que genera veure els fills emmalaltir. L’habitatge, doncs, acull relacions que es negocien a la confluència de l’Estat, el sector privat i el treball reproductiu; entre les dimensions més àmplies i les implicacions més íntimes de la política migratòria actual al país, i on els significats, els límits i les possibilitats per sostenir la vida es negocien i resisteixen diàriament
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