The surge in irregular crossings at Ceuta has been seized on by the far right to criticise Spain’s liberal immigration policies.
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In a knee-jerk reaction to the situation in Ceuta, 22 EU member states are seeking to step up border security. What are the legal loopholes and do stronger controls comply with the rule of law?
MEPs have backed plans to detain irregularly present migrants outside the EU, as part of the new Returns Regulation.
The border agents we interviewed objected to detaining and forcibly returning irregular migrants.
Legal ways to make a decent life inside and outside Ethiopia should be increased.
There are various social and labour rights for irregular migrants in the different EU member states and the UK. But the costs of enjoying these rights can be daunting.
There is a public preference for some policies that include a pathway to legal status.
The onus now appears to be shifting from the migrants to smugglers who have been profiteering from this inhumane trade.
The forced return of migrants by European states has ignored pressures and interests of African countries of origin.
The recent deaths of migrants trying to cross the Canada-U.S. border through Indigenous territory highlight the history of colonial dispossession that the border represents.
Arresting smugglers is difficult, and doesn’t make migrants less likely to seek out their services.
Publicly available data on irregular migration is a welcome development, but it doesn’t tell the full story.
After the death of 39 people in a container found on the back of a lorry in Essex, England, there are indications of exploitation on the rise.
Home Office deportation targets reduce complex human stories to statistics.
The number of people arriving has risen, but is not the highest on record.
New research questions the scale of support for tougher border security across Europe.
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Research Fellow, Coventry University
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Professor of International Security, University of Warwick
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Lecturer in US Foreign Policy, Queen Mary University of London
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Assistant Professor of Law, University of Windsor
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Lecturer in International Politics, Aberystwyth University
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Professor of Criminology, Head of the School of Law and Criminology, University of Greenwich
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Researcher, The Migration Observatory, University of Oxford
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Senior researcher, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
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Lecturer in Criminology, Birkbeck, University of London
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Professor of Criminology, Lancaster University
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Departmental Lecturer in Criminology, University of Oxford
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Professor of Migration Studies, European University Institute
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Part-Time Assistant Professor, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute
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Advisory Board Member, Research Center for Forced Displacement and Migration Studies, Addis Ababa University
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Catedrática en Antropologia Social, Universitat de Barcelona