My latest blog. 'Refugee camps: a persistent paradox'. It explains why so many refugees continue to be accommodated in camps, despite all the evidence concerning their negative characteristics and consequences: rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/01/20/r...

Obviously illegal & super dangerous. Let’s stand up for international law, not as some obscure text but as a basic principle that it is not acceptable to kidnap a president, however horrible, or take another country’s oil. Normative pressure and political and economic incentives are needed from all

Here we go again...

My latest blog. Why does academic research on refugees have little direct impact on UNHCR policy, programmes and practice? And will that change as a result of the localization of research? rsc.ox.ac.uk/blog/waiting...

Why are people migrating from Egypt? #Refugees

Frontex before the EU courts Analysis of the two recent big losses in court for the EU border control agency, by Antje Kunst - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/01/fron...

The people of the DRC must be punished until their government becomes sufficiently enthusiastic about the UK‘s obsession with expelling people

Today's good news story.

Secret plan for east Africa: Austria looking to set up 'transit centres' for rejected asylum seekers

My latest article: 'Can Trump dismantle the UN Refugee Convention?' passblue.com/2025/12/01/c...

So the Home Office, which is responsible for the welfare of asylum seekers & for determining their claims, has decided to call them “illegal migrants” & tell everyone it’s “furious” about them being here, but I’m sure this is fine and not a symptom of a culture of disbelief & gratuitous cruelty

‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse

Europe's new migration deals promise 'safe and legal routes,' but who really has access? #Refugees

Free speech news

Useful thread on the UK's latest approach to asylum.

Among the many things wrong with Labour’s immigration strategy, this stands out: to “fight” a few thousand so-called illegal migrants, Shabana Mahmood is willing to make life hell for hundreds of thousands of people who are legally in the UK. 🔗 theconversation.com/labours-plan...

I can't stand 'statistics' like this one!

EU member states are once again locking horns over asylum policy, reviving old rifts that never truly healed.

Repatriated or deported?

One more week! See the post below for registration details 🇸🇩 #KeepEyesonSudan

Exactly what the right-wing ecosystem has been trying to achieve.

I continue to believe that the Trump *campaign* successfully convinced quite a lot of people that mass deportations did not mean mass deportations; that it meant targeted enforcement against “the bad guys.” The problem for the Trump *administration* is that no one believes that anymore.

Europol set to grow. ”Beyond privacy fears, rights groups argue the reform entrenches a ’Fortress Europe’ approach by framing migration as a criminal and security issue. www.euractiv.com/news/parliam...

Some good news/ Home Office evaluation of the Refugee Transitions Outcomes Fund - pilot schemes to help employment, housing and integration for newly recognised refugees. Substantially improved employment outcomes & had positive fiscal impacts. www.gov.uk/government/p...

"The result would be removals on an epic scale. The comparison with Idi Amin's expulsion of Ugandan Asians is not one many Tory MPs welcome. Some appear unaware their own policy was that monstrous, until Lam spelled it out in a newspaper interview" - Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Unsurprisingly, people who actually have to deal with dead bodies in the water are more reluctant to embrace risky and dangerous methods than grandstanding politicians are.

Switzerland: Travel ban announced for refugees and asylum seekers #Refugees

Dublin riots subside after days of anti-immigration violence at asylum seeker hotel #Refugees

Refugee and forced migration studies: How it started. How it's going'. My presentation to the 2025 Refugee Law Initiative Conference. Now on Youtube! youtube.com/watch?v=g05p... PowerPoint available on request.

“We love this country so much that unless it changes into a different one, we’re going elsewhere. We’re patriots“

🚨Small boat migrants getting “private health care” while the rest of us have to use the NHS?!🚨 That’s outrageous! Or is it? Might the reality be a little more mundane and a little less clickbait-worthy? Let’s take a 👀 1/17 🧵

These changes - preventing those who’ve successfully claimed asylum from bringing family here, as they used to - will cause colossal damage and distress to people, and the miserable, dishonest, superficial, headline-grabbing “process” the government has followed is shameful beyond belief

The latest on the race to become UNHCR chief. Current candidates and my prediction of the outcome: x.com/JFCrisp/stat...

Detention and deportation have become the key features of asylum policy in the Global North.

Book review! My thoughts on Nik Tan's excellent and thought-provoking new study, 'Transnational asylum: towards a principled approach'. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

My latest article, on the Refugee History website: A critical look at the arcane and Vatican-like process used to appoint the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: refugeehistory.org/blog/2025/10...

'Key Isssues in Global Refugee Policy: Analysis, Commentary and Advocacy, 2015-2025'. A compilation of e-links to around 80 articles I've published over the past decade, most of them brief and easily readable! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

“Despite condemning the racist and divisive rhetoric of Farage and his followers, Starmer’s Government continue to accept the central premise of his message that the biggest problem facing the country is the amount of people who want to come and live here.“

My book, out now! On migration law's treatment of women, gender-based violence, and the legal challenges that migrant women have brought to the rules that determine their status. I have links if you want to review a copy or read a free chapter.... global.oup.com/academic/pro...

A first post of the new academic year for RefugeeHistory.org: refugeehistory.org/blog/2025/9/...

Not one of the 14 people sent to Ghana from the U.S. was allowed to stay in Ghana. INSPITE of a law suit filed in Ghana asking that they be allowed to stay! www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20...

Our new report! An alternative approach to the Rohingya refugee situation: www.against-inhumanity.org/2025/09/25/r...

For clarity, the people being sent back to France haven’t have their asylum claims rejected, they haven’t been refused. Their claims have been deemed inadmissible to the UK’s asylum system.

What is happening to refugees at the Humanitarian Centre near Agadez, Niger? I asked UNHCR to explain: www.against-inhumanity.org/2025/09/11/r...

FT mag piece from me: Spent a long time looking into the Britannia hotel chain, beneficiaries of a vast amount of taxpayer money via the asylum system on.ft.com/47HEE46

NEW: A judge warned Friday that the Trump admin is "with a wink and a nod" deporting people to Ghana, only for Ghana to quickly re-deport them to countries where they face torture and persecution. w/ @joshgerstein www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

UN Human Rights Committee rules against Malta’s and Italy’s non-assistance #Refugees

This is what the judge said in the case that sentenced Connolly to jail and for which she pleaded GUILTY: “You intended to incite serious violence. What you did encouraged activity which threatened or endangered life.” These morons are cheering a self confessed criminal who encouraged mass murder.

There is a much cheaper, more sustainable and more human alternative to using military sites that could end the need for hotels in months www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/stay-informe...