“…All of that stuff has gone… because austerity has just crunched us all down. (I8,manager,NGO) Rather, this segmentation of services can be more accurately interpreted as "managing failure" (Li 2007), having emerged from various rationalities mobilised by psy professionals in an informal and improvised manner in order to maintain the health coverage assemblage in a context of austerity (Prince, 2022). Despite psy professionals' progressive intentions, ultimately the outcome for undocumented migrants was exclusion from mental health coverage in the NHS and a large part of the NGO sector.…”