One-Way Ticket to Rwanda? Boris Johnson's Cruel Refugee Tactic Meets Kagame's Shady Immigration Handling

Kohnert, Dirk

doi:10.2139/ssrn.4109330

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“…Rwanda will get cash for the swap, with an upfront payment of $188 million to cover resettlement and integration. The intrinsic criminalisation as well as the commoditisation of migrants (and in particular, migrants of colour) in the now tabled fiveyear deal threatened to reimagine the inherent dangers that refugees pose, limit their ability to engage and assimilate in their new home communities and foreclose the possibility of a secure future (Balaguera, 2018;Kohnert, 2022). Complicating the process further, we must note that Rwanda, a country with its own history of human rights abuses, would have had the authority to decide whether to grant asylum to the deported if the program had come to pass (see critique in Nair, 2022;Sen, et al, 2022).…”

Section: Emerging Trends In Refugee Protection Regimementioning

confidence: 99%

Echoes of Colour Discrimination in Refugee Protection Regime: The Experience of Africans Fleeing the Russia-Ukrainian War

Oyebamiji¹,

OYEBADE²,

Cohen

et al. 2022

Migration Letters

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After 71 years of commitment to the principles of the Refugee Convention and an obligation to protection; the international system faces challenges as socio-political, economic and security concerns become alibis that betray fidelity to the treaty and are manifest in discrimination and expulsions of asylum-seekers, migrants and refugees. Our paper examines this collapse and highlights themes of covert colour politics and discrimination vis-a-vis the Russia-Ukrainian war. Our methodology combines interviews, narratives and critical analyses as we document the ugly experiences of Africans fleeing the war zone and the denials of protection they face based on their skin colour. Our discussion raises concerns that cannot be ignored as conflicts escalate globally. Rather than embracing the hardline hostility confronting migrants and refugees, we argue for a reappraisal of the movers and their status not as a migration problem to be solved but as victims of a faulty international system that deserve attention.

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Section: Emerging Trends In Refugee Protection Regimementioning

confidence: 99%