Jeff Crisp

This month we're publishing "A Handbook of Integration with Refugees" edited by @esaldegheri.bsky.social, @dx-fisher.bsky.social and @alisonphipps.bsky.social.

The book is Open Access and is already available to download completely free via the following link: zenodo.org/records/1641...

How 'voluntary' were they?

Another landmark judgement by @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social that applies to many member states: even in cases of a sudden surge in arrivals, basic reception conditions must be provided. So will the @ec.europa.eu finally launch infringement proceedings against all (many) member states in breach?

Top EU court questions premise of Italy's Albania migrant camp scheme

Top EU court questions premise of Italy's Albania migrant camp scheme #Refugees

Exclusive: Inside the Diss hotel – a refugee’s view of the anti-refugee crowd outside Families fleeing danger thought they'd found safety, until protesters gathered outside their hotel, chanting for their removal

A hotel filled with pregnant women, frightened children, families seeking safety.

Outside: a mob shouting “Send them out.”

This is the refugee’s story from behind the glass....

Reommended reading!

This video is, unsurprisingly, a mix of straightforward lies and deliberately misleading half-truths.

My earlier analysis on the long-run fiscal impact of recent migrants is here:

docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Opinion | Trump Is Building a Machine to Disappear People

Read a new @nytimes.com guest essay by @jfcrisp.bsky.social exploring the growing tendency of states to expel refugees and other migrants to countries with which they have no prior connection:

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

Opening Statement before the International Military Tribunal - Robert H Jackson Center On November 21, 1945, in the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg, Germany, Justice Robert H. Jackson, Chief of Counsel for the United States, made his opening statement to the International Military Tribun...

As the Trump administration continues to defy the law, a quotation from Robert Jackson's opening statement at the Nuremberg Trial of Nazi Leaders comes to mind: www.roberthjackson.org/speech-and-w... /1

A commentary on this ghastly painting, produced by John Gast, a German immigrant to the US:
"Much of the west was still occupied by Native Americans in 1872, but Gast portrays the idea that America was destined to expand to this area as part of Manifest Destiny."

It's not only about recent aid cuts.
As I'll explain in a forthcoming article, it's also about the way that the international community has for many years tolerated a refugee response based on long-term relief rather than livelihoods and employment.

Fact check: Misinformation fuels anti-migrant riots in Spain

Fact check: Misinformation fuels anti-migrant riots in Spain #Refugees

Opinion | Trump Is Building a Machine to Disappear People

Trump Is Building a Machine to Disappear People

Deporting foreign nationals to countries other than their homeland has quickly become a centerpiece of the Trump administration’s immigration policy. @jfcrisp.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

India: Hundreds of Muslims Unlawfully Expelled to Bangladesh #Refugees

EU decision to extend temporary protection for those fleeing the invasion of Ukraine officially extended for another year (to March 2027)
eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

Ireland opts in to two proposals for EU asylum laws ("safe third countries" and "safe countries of origin")

‘Forced’ Refugees versus ‘Voluntary’ Migrants: Deconstructing a Binary through SOGIESC Claims of Asylum Abstract. This article addresses the consequences that SOGIESC claims of asylum have on international refugee law and its fundamental distinction between ‘

I am genuinely happy to share that my first big publication is now available online!
"'Forced' Refugees versus 'Voluntary' Migrants" is the result of two years of research, writing, reflection, discussion, rethinking.
Now I can't wait to debate it!

Opinion | Trump Is Building a Machine to Disappear People

Deported and disappeared.
A New York Times article from me on the growing tendency of states to expel refugees and other migrants to countries with which they have no prior connection:
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

Excellent thread
I just wished more MSM did good research such as this to de-bunk the myths.

Another terrible incident that shows that search and rescue in the Mediterranean urgently needs to be improved.

Next EU budget seen as funding migration crackdown The next EU budget may end up imposing tougher development aid conditions to force foreign states into complying on migration, warn some in civil society.

The next EU budget may end up imposing tougher development aid conditions to force foreign states into complying on migration, warn some in civil society.

UK resumes processing of Syrian asylum claims

UK resumes processing of Syrian asylum claims #Refugees

Great picture!

146. Denaturalization and Expatriation There is no lawful way to "deport" U.S. citizens. And although citizenship can be revoked, any attempt by the government would run into significant statutory, constitutional, and practical obstacles.

With President Trump threatening to revoke Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship, it seems like a good time to re-up my explainer on denaturalization and expatriation — and why what Trump is suggesting is … not viable:

BBC news seems to have adopted what I presume is the government’s distinction between those crossing in small boats and ‘genuine asylum seekers’. They should reconsider, not least given the proportion of the latter who have their asylum claims approved.

A screen capture of two news articles about the Moygaschel bonfire burning an effigy of immigrants in a boat. Both articles feature a photo of the burning effigy atop the bonfire. On the left the BBC News article uses the headline "Moygaschel: Contentious bonfire set alight", whilst on the right the Independent uses the headline "Hate incident investigation after bonfire topped with migrants effigy lit in Northern Ireland"

Spot the difference between these two headlines. Another example of the BBC's so-called impartiality? Burning an effigy of migrants is not "contentious"; it's a xenophobic & racist act being investigated as a hate crime! #BBC #BBCNews #moygaschel #bonfire #racism #xenophobia

Survey: Majority of sub-Saharan migrants in Tunisia don't trust NGOs

Survey: Majority of sub-Saharan migrants in Tunisia don't trust NGOs #Refugees

4/ Note there's no numbers mentioned (only the principle of equivalent numbers). Also no criteria for selecting who goes in each direction, other than "illegal journey by small boat" to the UK/readmission to France. No mention of those going France-UK applying for asylum/having links in UK.