Jeff Crisp

Book review!
My thoughts on Nik Tan's excellent and thought-provoking new study, 'Transnational asylum: towards a principled approach'.
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Is there a better way to choose the new UNHCR High Commissioner? — Refugee History. The search to find a new high commissioner for UNHCR happens in a process described as "arcane and Machiavellian." Is there a better way?

My latest article, on the Refugee History website:
A critical look at the arcane and Vatican-like process used to appoint the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: refugeehistory.org/blog/2025/10...

Crisp2015-25 Key issues in global refugee policy: analysis, commentary and advocacy 2015 - 2025 Jeff Crisp Refugee Studies Centre University of Oxford September 2025 jefferyfcrisp@gmail.com @jfcrisp @jfcrisp.b...

'Key Isssues in Global Refugee Policy:
Analysis, Commentary and Advocacy, 2015-2025'.
A compilation of e-links to around 80 articles I've published over the past decade, most of them brief and easily readable!
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“Despite condemning the racist and divisive rhetoric of Farage and his followers, Starmer’s Government continue to accept the central premise of his message that the biggest problem facing the country is the amount of people who want to come and live here.“

My book, out now! On migration law's treatment of women, gender-based violence, and the legal challenges that migrant women have brought to the rules that determine their status. I have links if you want to review a copy or read a free chapter....

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Christian anti-communism and the history of refugee relief — Refugee History. The history of post-World War II refugee relief is often presented as part of the triumph of modern ideas about human rights and the spread of humanitarian values. A closer examination of some of the ...

A first post of the new academic year for RefugeeHistory.org:

refugeehistory.org/blog/2025/9/...

Ghana accused of dumping West African migrants deported from US in Togo West African migrants deported from the United States to Ghana earlier this month have been transferred to neighbouring Togo by force, according to their lawyers, who are pursuing lawsuits in US, Ghan...

Not one of the 14 people sent to Ghana from the U.S. was allowed to stay in Ghana. INSPITE of a law suit filed in Ghana asking that they be allowed to stay!

www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20...

New report: "An alternative approach to the Rohingya refugee situation", by UAI and UNA-UK - United Against Inhumanity A new report from United Against Inhumanity (UAI) and the United Nations Association – UK (UNA-UK) presents the findings of a multi-stakeholder workshop convened 5 September 2025, entitled ‘Alternativ...

Our new report!
An alternative approach to the Rohingya refugee situation:
www.against-inhumanity.org/2025/09/25/r...

For clarity, the people being sent back to France haven’t have their asylum claims rejected, they haven’t been refused. Their claims have been deemed inadmissible to the UK’s asylum system.

Distressed in the desert:UNHCR’s perspective on the refugee situation in Agadez, Niger - United Against Inhumanity For over a year, refugees at the Humanitarian Centre near Agadez, Niger, have been protesting about their conditions of life and asking to be relocated elsewhere. Jeff Crisp, a volunteer with UAI, pos...

What is happening to refugees at the Humanitarian Centre near Agadez, Niger?
I asked UNHCR to explain:
www.against-inhumanity.org/2025/09/11/r...

The crumbling seaside palaces at the centre of Britain’s asylum crisis [FREE TO READ] How one hotelier built an empire from beloved community assets — and a government struggling to cope with a surge in migration

FT mag piece from me: Spent a long time looking into the Britannia hotel chain, beneficiaries of a vast amount of taxpayer money via the asylum system

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NEW: A judge warned Friday that the Trump admin is "with a wink and a nod" deporting people to Ghana, only for Ghana to quickly re-deport them to countries where they face torture and persecution.

w/ @joshgerstein

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

UN Human Rights Committee rules against Malta's and Italy's non-assistance • Sea-Watch e.V. Italy and Malta have a duty to coordinate rescues of people in distress at sea and their disembarkation in a place of safety. This was decided by the UN Human Rights Committee on Wednesday, 3 September 2025. This decision stems from a complaint by a group of 41 survivors of a shipwreck, who were stranded…

UN Human Rights Committee rules against Malta’s and Italy’s non-assistance #Refugees

This is what the judge said in the case that sentenced Connolly to jail and for which she pleaded GUILTY: “You intended to incite serious violence. What you did encouraged activity which threatened or endangered life.”

These morons are cheering a self confessed criminal who encouraged mass murder.

There is a much cheaper, more sustainable and more human alternative to using military sites that could end the need for hotels in months www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/stay-informe...

Gaza is being destroyed - the UK government must show Israel that there can be no “business as usual” | UNA-UK The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis has determined that Gaza is...

una.org.uk/news/gaza-be...

Can't we call them HOSTELS?

EU-backed Libyan patrol boat fires hundreds of rounds onto rescue vessel, says NGO An EU-backed Libyan Coast Guard boat fired hundreds of rounds at a charity vessel damaging onboard rescue speed boats and putting bullet holes in windows on the bridge, says an NGO.

Nice ”partners” we work with to stop #migration in the Mediterranean. euobserver.com/migration/ar...

Horrible stuff from the UK's Daily Mail.

Workshop on Alternative Approaches for Rohingya Refugees A workshop held in preparation for an International High-Level Conference on the Rohingya crisis, New York, 30 September 2025.

Workshop on the future of Rohingya refugees. 3 September. All welcome! Register here:

www.eventbrite.fr/e/workshop-o...

Arresting 400+ people for the "terrorist" offence of protesting against mass murder while large segments of the right are openly encouraging riots against immigrants is a tale of a very unhappy country and government.

'Stop the Inhumanity at Europe's Borders!'

Here is our Campaign Manifesto.
Supported by 160 NGOs and civil society associations across the continent.
www.against-inhumanity.org/wp-content/u...

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:

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