Leaving the EU has meant leaving a series of agreements on immigration.
Suella Braverman’s Chinook flight to an immigration holding facility in Kent is the latest move in a decade of border spectacle.
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Tazreena Sajjad, American University School of International Service
A UK plan to move asylum seekers on its shores to Rwanda has been met with stiff opposition from human rights organizations. But the UK persists, and Rwanda is all too willing.
Britain’s Prince William speaks during the unveiling of the National Windrush Monument on June 22, 2022.
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The court blocked the UK from deporting asylum-seekers to Rwanda until after cases in the UK are decided.
Taking on the UK’s migration management is of short-term benefit to Rwanda, a country facing considerable economic hardship.
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Richer nations are increasingly looking to offshore their immigration processing and further their own economic and political interests at the same time.
A protester outside an immigration detention facility in Melbourne, Austraila.
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The latest border protection move from the UK government could breach international law.
Migrants in this rigid inflatable in the English Channel were spotted in the shipping lane and the coastguard were alerted to their presence.
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Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham