This article analyses the emergence of the Réseau Education Sans Frontières (RESF) in France, a movement that emerged in response to fear about the deportation of immigrant children who were pupils in French schools. Mobilising ethical concerns about children's welfare, the movement has been able to create public debate about the French State's moral responsibility to protect these children of 'sans-papiers'. Based on qualitative research, this article analyses the membership of RESF and its modes of action to show how this mobilisation has taken place, stressing the importance of 'everyday interactions' in this mobilisation, and the use of new frames of moral injustice concerning children's welfare. © 2011 Taylor & Francis.

Migration Deportation Children France 'Sans-Papiers' Anti-deportation movements

Child Welfare welfare provision France immigration ethics migration