Calls to ‘close the border’ are an uncomfortable contradiction to Brexit-era efforts to avoid a hard border at all costs.
Rigor académico, oficio periodístico
Artículos sobre UK-Rwanda asylum
Mostrando todos artículos
The Rwanda plan was meant to stop the boats – but all the evidence shows deterrence doesn’t work
Each year the UK incarcerates thousands of asylum seekers in prison-like immigration detention centres.
UN human rights experts have warned that airlines transporting people to Rwanda could be complicit in human rights abuses.
Leaving the ECHR would not free the UK of the obligation not to send people to a place of harm.
An expert on immigration law explains the latest developments with the safety of Rwanda bill.
The debate over the Rwanda plan has focused on the safety of Rwanda, not on the policy’s racist undertones.
The government is attempting to overrule the supreme court by passing a new law.
The government of Rwanda must commit to eliminating the forced return of refugees and asylum seekers.
Plans by European states to outsource their asylum procedures to African states often fail and don’t offer political alternatives to asylum in Europe.
Refugee law puts humanitarianism above considerations of state sovereignty.
The deal undermines every human being’s right to seek asylum and commitments enshrined in the Refugee Convention.
The choice of Rwanda has a logic about it. But it’s also controversial.
While refugees in Rwanda have the right to freedom of movement and work, in practice it’s difficult for them.
Principales colaboradores
-
Senior Researcher at the Feinstein International Center, Tufts University, and Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
-
Assistant Professor in Law, University of Nottingham
-
Professor of Hispanic, Cultural and Migration Studies, Queen Mary University of London
-
Honorary Associate Professor, University of Warwick
-
Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the South African Research Chair in International Law (SARCIL), University of Johannesburg
-
Senior Researcher, Leuphana University
-
Assistant Professor in Global Challenges, Brunel University London
-
Lecturer in Constitutional and Administrative Law, and Public Procurement, Bangor University
-
Departmental Lecturer in Political Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Oxford
-
Head of Research, Senior Researcher, UK in a Changing Europe, King's College London
-
Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Human Geography, Newcastle University
-
Associate Professor, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham
