Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna

Our article on the new grounds for deportation of EU citizens in the UK is among the top 10% viewed articles published in 2023 in International Migration.
Thank you, Olayinka Lewis for working together on this piece.
The article is available here: doi.org/10.1111/imig...

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If you are interested in the topic, here is a link to my article on the differentiated deportability: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

YouTube video by MIGRATION RESEARCH The deportations of European Union citizens from the United Kingdom.

In this video, I explain the roots of Central and Eastern Europeans' differentiated deportability in the 🇬🇧
Check out this new videocast of the Centre of Migration Research: youtu.be/VtwMIc9Usn0?...
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This blog post was written with Corina Tulbure within the #UK2deport research project that was funded by the @ncngovpl.bsky.social
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The decision on the refusal of entry is discretionary, at the hands of the UK Border Force. One of our research participants was returned because she did not have a return ticket. Another person was travelling with too many pairs of trousers, according to the border official.

The UK Home Office declares there is no national profiling in place, but half of EU port returns were Romanian and Bulgarian citizens.

EU citizens make up 55% of port returns.
EU citizens returned from airports and ports are often the people who did not secure a status under the EUSS, who were refused it. Some of them are new, post-Brexit arrivals suspected of coming to the UK to work without visa.

A port return happens when the UK Border Force refuses entry and sends back a person wishing to travel to the UK.

Recently the number of port returns has dynamically grown, with 24 686 port returns in 2023 only.
In a recent post @bordercrim.bsky.social we explain, why.

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Today on the radio I will be talking about Trump’s unrealistic plans to deport millions of people from the US

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Latin American workers in Poland unionised.
An interview with two members of the union (in Polish):
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I will be presenting the power-knowledge approach this Thursday at the Centre of Migration Research, University of Warsaw
When: Dec 5, 2024, 11:00-12:00 CEST
Where: Hybrid, in the Conference Hall at CMR (Pasteura 7, Warsaw) and online
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Reading a paper by one of my colleagues and idols in a high-regarded migration journal
The paper is great, but the journal didn’t do the copy editing. The footnote containing only a full stop is only one of the examples.

Hiring humans to do the copy-editing could be a good idea, academic journals

Done by the team of Dr. Dobrochna Zielińska from the University of Warsaw and SWPS University (Poland)

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A big ‘thank you’ to those who helped me with this article. Thank you the funder of my research the National Science Centre of Poland for making my work possible.
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Differentiated deportability of CEEU nationals helped to perpetuate enduring discrimination against Eastern Europeans and they prefigured post-Brexit policy and practice, e.g.:
· The rough sleeping rule (2020)
· Disclose of criminal convictions in EUSS applications
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I knew from deported Polish people and their families that in prison they were told they would not be barred from re-entry if they agreed to deportation or Early Removal Scheme. They realised they were indeed barred when they were rejected entry to the UK.
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London's deportation apparatus: The ‘administrative removal’ of rough sleeping European Union citizens, 2010–17 Brexit brought an end to the free-movement rights of EU citizens in the United Kingdom, but the rights of the poorest Europeans were being actively curtailed even before that. From 2010, street homel....

...e.g.the removal of sentencing thresholds, which made deportation attempts widely possible for people who had contact with the criminal justice system; the introduction of the abuse/misuse of rights, which saw rough sleeping as an abuse of EU treaties
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Legal changes in the UK and official and unofficial practices of the Home Office and prison staff made possible deportations of the most excluded of them...
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Two populations were the most targeted: people who had contact with the criminal justice system (not necessarily convicts, though) and rough sleepers (an English term for street homeless people).
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Did EU deportations make the UK more secure? You guess.
Who was deported? The most excluded. The people who couldn't afford an attorney (legal aid in deportation cases is not available), people with poor English who did not understand the documents they signed (see 9/)
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Was it proportional? No
Romanians, Polish and Lithuanians were overrepresented among the deported EU citizens. They made up 40% of the EU population in the UK in 2019.
I wrote this article to explain the reasons behind their differentiated deportability.
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Were all EU citizens deported equally? Of course not.
Romanians, Polish and Lithuanians made up almost 70% of the EU deportees.
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Yes. Britain did deport EU citizens before Brexit. The closer the EU exit, the higher the proportion of EU citizens among all the deportees. In 2019, almost half of all the ‘enforced removals’ were EU citizens.
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Did Britain deport EU citizens when it was still an EU member?
Who was deported and why?
I explain it in the newly published OA article in @EJC_Eurocrim
doi: 10.1177/14773708241275397
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🚨 My new open-access article is out 🚨
Paper ‘Nobody had their back’ on the differentiated deportability of Central and Eastern European EU migrants is now published and free to read for all in the European Journal of Criminology.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...