A new piece from me. 'From territorial to transnational asylum: new directions in the quest for refugee protection'. rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/06/09/f...

Brilliant

Another excellent thread from Debunking Queen @monkemma.bsky.social (official title). Note the deliberate use of FURY in the headline, aimed to manifest the outcome. Our media is an abomination.

The crucial point here is that Hegseth is racist and undiplomatic. But he's also ignorant: stricter EU asylum laws apply from *this week*, and stricter EU laws on expulsions were just agreed too.

NEW The end of the failed Rwanda asylum scheme An arbitration decision gives the UK a lucky final victory, but more than £250m has already been lost My latest at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Trump ran on mass deportation (including of people on parole and TPS) and “remigration” (of people here many years, w/ US born children, refugees!) and no more immigration from “shithole” countries. Focusing asylum “abuse” and “criminal aliens” has always been diversionary. It’s been this!!!

It a not safe for anyone to be deported into and out of the DRC or Uganda right now!

If it is so concerned to ensure Ebola doesn’t cross the Atlantic, the Trump admin should stop deporting Latin American refugees (Colombians, Ecuadorians, Peruvians) to the DRC, who are mostly repatriated from there back to their countries of origin. www.cdc.gov/ebola/situat...

If you’re in Copenhagen 9 June and interested in migration, West Africa and infrastructure don’t miss our upcoming seminar w/ @diis.dk and @naujakleist.bsky.social @mobileucph.bsky.social @ucph.bsky.social www.diis.dk/en/event/mig...

The Chişinău Declaration… I think it tells a lot about how governments in Europe feel about, and deal with, migration and refugees today - as a problem or even a threat. www.coe.int/en/web/porta...

Austria: Could Uzbekistan become an additional route for deportations of Afghan nationals? #Refugees

The *top two* stories on the BBC site, plus a 3rd further down, are now about the claims of scammers which the BBC presents as evidence of the asylum process being “systematically exploited” - whilst also admitting they don’t know how widespread the issue is. Practically a Reform mouthpiece now.

He's 16 FFS. The Home Office knows that the chances are, as with most people piloting small boats, that he was forced into doing so by gangs. He should be having his asylum claim processed, not being prosecuted. news.sky.com/story/boy-be...

Maroc : plus de 70 000 interceptions de migrants en 2025, en baisse de 6 % sur un an #Refugees

Transcripts of the hearing now published pca-cpa.org/en/cases/370/

The Charity Commission finds attacks on refugee charity City of Sanctuary were unfounded, and fuelled by online misinformation. Charity Commission www.gov.uk/government/n... City of Sanctuary response cityofsanctuary.org/2026/04/07/c...

#NewBlog "Labour mobility programmes for refugees: origins, benefits and limitations" by Jeff Crisp Available here: rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/03/23/l... #RefugeeProtection #LabourMobility #MigrationPolicy #DurableSolutions @jfcrisp.bsky.social

We have been hearing this mantra for more than 50 years

What scope is there for the establishment of programmes that allow refugees to leave their country of asylum and to relocate to states where their skills are in demand? My thoughts here: rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/03/23/l...

My latest! 'Labour mobility programmes for refugees: origins, benefits and limitations' rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/03/23/l...

To those who are traveling to the U.S. to see the Football championships…. You still have time to cancel. It is not worth the risk.

In the event of major refugee movements out of Iran, it’s really not clear where people could go and be safe. Good overview here, by @abidhussayn.bsky.social @aljazeera.com www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

BBC bias.

Just published a new #BookReview! Won Geun Choi reviewed “Refugee Policies in East Asia” by Petrice R. Flowers - out now on Cambridge University Press. Read the #OpenAccess review here: doi.org/10.25071/192...

Today is a dark day for anyone who believes in sanctuary in the UK. People who've fled war and torture should be able to rebuild their lives in peace and security - not live under a constant threat of removal. We must not stop fighting these appalling anti-refugee laws.

We are disgusted by the latest cruel and inhumane anti-asylum policy announced by the Home Secretary. Limiting refugees to 30 months before needing to re-apply undermines their ability to rebuild their lives, to feel safe and secure, all while increasing Home Office bureaucracy and costs.

Mauritanian expulsìons:

UK update:

Here's Home Minister Mike Tapp celebrating that "we have more than doubled the number of people granted sanctuary via safe and legal routes." Which is only true because they're counting extending the leave of people who arrived under the previous government... www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Another splendid 'debunk' from @monkemma.bsky.social. It's hard to overestimate just how much work it takes to excavate, accurately and in detail, the layers of half-truth, falsity, misinterpretation etc. of these kinds of stories: monkdebunks.substack.com/p/the-500k-b...

What does the Mixed Migration Centre think of this?

Today's good news story:

I’m confident my research skills — honed over almost a decade in grad school using libraries, archives, electronic databases, learning where to find the answer to complicated questions— will never be done by AI. Tech bros don’t know why they don’t know. The real problem is defunding libraries for AI

Won't be a revelation to anyone but the reason all the worst people on the right are pivoting to talking about race and culture rather than immigration is so they can keep banging the drum even as net migration figures fall (UK) and even reverse (US). This is the next step and it always was.

Germany moves to return more Syrians, but Damascus says the country is not yet ready #Refugees

NGOs condemn Italy's migration bill: 'The aim is to push us out' #Refugees

Great thread!

1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.

I can’t even explain the fear most refugees in Egypt currently have. People are being taken from the streets, the metro, their own houses. Valid residency and UNHCR cards mean nothing. Hundreds are being deported, people are dying in detention. UNHCR Egypt has been silent, no statement whatsoever.

Let’s not pretend the US wants to fund principled humanitarian action: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)

Why Tanzania’s mass repatriation of Burundi refugees must be stopped : www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)

NEW: Opening up the Trump admin's attack on Minnesota refugees to greater public scrutiny. On Tuesday, Law Dork, with Public Justice, filed a motion to improve access to a key court case challenging ICE's new effort to detain thousands of law-abiding refugees.

Good.

Approved today by the European Parliament with 396 votes in favour, 226 against and 30 abstentions. www.europarl.europa.eu/news/sv/pres...

When the UK gov. a couple of years ago launched the idea of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda, many in the EU saw this as a controversial, radical step to take. Well, it’s now a mainstream position. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

European Parliament Tries to Bury the Right to Seek Asylum #Refugees

There was systematic cruelty to children of irregular migrants under Trump 1.0. This time there are plenty of reports of mistreatment of US citizens. The ICE phenomenon is only partly about migration.