In recent years, the UK government has been offering new and ‘safe and legal routes’ to some populations fleeing from conflicts. What does this ad hoc approach tell us about who is welcome and who is not welcome in the UK? Plus: And what if these routes are not so safe after all?

What's Brexit got to do with irregular Channel crossings, the Rwanda Plan and the UK's humanitarian visas for Hong Kongers and Ukrainians?

State violence against migrants and refugees has become normalised in Europe, Nando Sigona writes in a comment piece for Spanish newspaper El Pais

The UK Government claim that their post-Brexit migration regime is 'fair and generous'. But maybe the question we should be asking is whether it is just? That's what we've got in store in the latest episode of Who do we think we are? as we discuss a new plan for migration

Foreign policy determines why migrants from Hong Kong got a better deal than Syrians or Ukrainians.

Rishi Sunak's five point plan on immigration is a mix of not-so-new ideas, wishful thinking and legally dubious interventions, writes Nando Sigona in this piece for Transforming Society

According to the Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s recent statement in the House of Commons, the UK is facing ‘an invasion’. But, Nando Sigona and Michaela Benson write in this piece for The Political Quarterly, Braverman’s invading army is not made of soldiers but a few thousand people who have reached the British shores irregularly, crossing the Channel by small boat in the absence of alternative safe and legal routes.

Since the tragedy in the English Channel, the government narrative on irregular crossings has shifted from the bombastic “stop migrants to defend our border” to the more humanitarian-inflected “stop migrants (in France) to protect them from drowning”, Nando Sigona and Michaela Benson explain in this article published in The Conversation

Launched in March 2021, the UK government's New Plan for Immigration is quickly moving towards parliament, after a short and contested period of consultation, 'worth no more than the paper on which it was printed', according to Zoe Gardner, policy advisor with the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants.