“We have to separate so we can be together again”: Eritrean mothers’ gendered racialisation and family separation within the Israeli and UK asylum regimes

This article explores how two asylum-seeking women from Eritrea attempt to secure safety and legal status for their children – born unborn themselves by leaving them behind in the settler colonial state of Israel taking on forged Ethiopian Israeli identities travel UK facilitate a process family reunification. Situating asylum regime drawing multi-sited ethnographic research collected between 2016–2018 UK, argues that engaging acts refusing militarised border regimes, migration enforcement, racialised orderings, shape future children. The then sheds light women’s experience waiting while faced with protracted uncertainty separation It also analyses gendered precarity motherhood are experienced.