Saenz Perez, C orcid.org/0000-0001-9935-6741 (2023) The securitisation of asylum: A review of UK asylum laws post-Brexit. International Journal of Refugee Law. eead030. ISSN 0953-8186
Abstract
Understanding the role of external actors is essential to understanding the United Kingdom’s (UK) securitization agenda in the field of asylum. Whilst the internal dynamics of securitization in migration and asylum and its links to the Brexit referendum have been extensively analysed, the externalization of asylum and its connection to the so-called ‘hostile environment’ policy have received less attention. This article addresses this gap, and focuses on how the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 and the UK–Rwanda Memorandum of Understanding for the relocation of asylum seekers advance the externalization of asylum post-Brexit. It examines how these reforms reinforce the securitization that characterizes the UK’s asylum and migration policy and evaluates how they exclude asylum seekers from access to basic human rights, in violation of the 1951 Refugee Convention and the European Convention on Human Rights.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) (2023). Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Law (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 28 Apr 2023 13:36 |
Last Modified: | 11 Jan 2024 16:48 |
Published Version: | https://academic.oup.com/ijrl/advance-article/doi/... |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/ijrl/eead030 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:198682 |