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Border Security Contracts linked to small boat Channel crossings
BRIEFING Compiled by the Channel Crossings research team Last updated: April 2025 Context This briefing has been produced by a team of researchers from the Universities of Liverpool, York, Sheffield and Nottingham. It is part of a larger project, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) which is exploring UK government responses to Read more
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What are the policy options to respond to Channel crossings?
The current terms of the debate on immigration in the UK are highly constrained and characterised by crisis language and far right responses. What is thought of as ‘realistic’ has become limited to a consensus around the need for tight border controls, with some selective admission of a small number of refugees. But these are Read more
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Channel Crossings team publish comment article in the Financial Times
On 17th December 2022 the Financial Times published an opinion piece. Below is a version of what was published: *** Just days ago, four people became the latest to lose their lives in the freezing waters of the English Channel. We do not know their names, the stories of their lives or the precise circumstances Read more
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