In 2012, the ‘no recourse to public funds’ (NRPF) condition was extended to long-standing migrant families in the UK who had previously achieved rights to residence and welfare through human rights mechanisms. Through close examination of policy, political statements, and media coverage, we make the case that the NRPF extension was – and continues to be – intentionally subjugating and punitive, most aptly understood as a policy of enforced destitution and debt imposed on negatively-racialised post-colonial subjects. In drawing out the implications of our argument, we point to time, destitution, and debt as core technologies of the UK’s migration regime, alongside everyday bordering, detention, and deportability. Denying support through NRPF serves to exclude putatively included migrants while normalising conditional approaches to social support. Our article reveals why moral arguments against NRPF based on destitution fail and suggests that challenging welfare bordering requires a more systemic appraisal of policy frames, intentions and effects.

2012年，“无权使用公共资金”条件延伸至英国的长期移民家庭，这些家庭以前曾通过人权机制实现了居住权和福利权。通过仔细研究政策，政治声明和媒体报道，我们可以得出结论，NRPF延期是-并将继续是-有意屈服和惩罚性的，最恰当地理解为对种族歧视性职位施加强制性减免和债务的政策-殖民主题。在阐明我们的观点的含义时，我们将时间，贫困和债务作为英国移民制度的核心技术，以及日常的边界，拘留和可驱逐性。通过NRPF拒绝提供支持可以排除假定包括的移民，同时规范有条件的社会支持方法。