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Abolish the Family | Sophie Lewis speaks to Ben Smoke

The Verso Podcast

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The Rights of Family Life

The rights of family life is enshrined within the European Convention on Human Rights. But it means that there becomes this narrative about single men, you know, and they're kind of deserving the undeserving if we're going to look at it specifically through kind of like migrant rights lens. It's a complicated one, isn't it? Because the word family, as you're kind of saying, is the word that people on the margins use for what they're experimentally creating and sustaining and remaking fresh every day. And so we have language as a, as an imaginative, limit or tension here.

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