New Plan for Immigration
Edited by Elspeth Guild, Nicolette Busuttil, Maja Grundler and Andrew Pitt (Queen Mary University of London)
On 24 March 2021, the UK Home Office launched a consultation process to receive input from stakeholders and the public on its proposed New Plan for Immigration. The stated objective of the New Plan is three-fold:
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- To increase the fairness and efficacy of the UK system so that it can better protect and support those in genuine need of asylum;
- To deter illegal entry into the UK, thereby breaking the business model of criminal trafficking networks and protecting the lives of those they endanger;
- To remove more easily from the UK those with no right to be present.
This blog series is designed to provide an opportunity for academics who are working specifically on issues of UK immigration and asylum law to share their knowledge and expertise on the subjects raised in the Plan for the purpose of informing the consultation process. In the blogs which follow, we seek to provide academic knowledge relevant to informing public policy and decision making as regards what kind of immigration and asylum system the UK should adopt, now that it is no longer participating in the EU’s systems.
Offshore Asylum Processing: The Future of Asylum in the UK or Dead Letter?
Blog post by Nikolas Feith Tan, Elizabeth Mavropoulou, David Cantor and Mariana Gkliati* Introduction The possibility of transferring asylum seekers offshore after they have arrived in the UK is set to remain part of the 2021 Nationality and Borders...
Clause 11, Nationality and Borders Bill: Why Two-Tier Refugee Status is a Bad Idea
Blog post by David Cantor, Eric Fripp, Hugo Storey and Mark Symes* One of the most disturbing clauses of the 2021 Nationality and Borders Bill remains intact as the Bill moves towards adoption. Clause 11, which purports to allow the United Kingdom to create a...
From the Consultation for a New Plan for Immigration to the Nationality and Borders Bill
Blog post by Professor Elspeth Guild (Queen Mary University of London) and Maja Grundler (Queen Mary University of London), and forms part of a series of blog posts responding to the UK Home Office's New Plan for Immigration. Introduction The UK...
Promoting migration whilst preserving the hostile environment: inequality in the UK’s implementation of the Global Compact on Migration
Blog post by Kathryn Allinson, University of Bristol, and Clara Della Croce, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). This blog is part of the RLI series on the GCM implementation review. Introduction The UK has adopted the Marrakesh Compact and...
The “New Plan for Immigration” and the UK’s Breach of its Legal Duty of Non-Penalisation
Blog post by Cathryn Costello (University of Oxford & Hertie School, Berlin) and Emilie McDonnell (University of Oxford & Adjunct Researcher, University of Tasmania), and forms part of a series of blog posts responding to the UK Home Office's New Plan for...
Reinterpreting the Refugee Convention – A Recipe for Litigation
Blog post by Richard Warren (Kent Law Clinic, University of Kent), and forms part of a series of blog posts responding to the UK Home Office's New Plan for Immigration. The Nationality and Borders Bill has now been published to implement the government’s New...
“Enforcement” and “Returns”: The forlorn hope of Home Secretaries down the years, revived in the New Plan for Immigration
Blog post by Sheona York (Kent Law Clinic, University of Kent), and forms part of a series of blog posts responding to the UK Home Office's New Plan for Immigration. Introduction After decades of failure to deal with immigration and asylum backlogs, and...
The New Plan for Immigration: Empty Measures Against Modern Slavery
Blog post by Sheona York (Kent Law Clinic, University of Kent), and forms part of a series of blog posts responding to the UK Home Office's New Plan for Immigration. Introduction The ‘New Plan for Immigration’ states that ‘The UK’s response to the evil...
“Foreign National Offenders”: Not All Foreigners Who Commit Crimes Deserve to Be Deported
Blog post by Dr Jonathan Collinson (University of Huddersfield), and forms part of a series of blog posts responding to the UK Home Office's New Plan for Immigration. Part of the UK government’s ‘New Plan for Immigration’ is the announcement of plans for...
The Possibility for Regularisation in the UK in Light of the New Plan for Immigration
Blog post by Alan Desmond, University of Leicester, and forms part of a series of blog posts responding to the UK Home Office's New Plan for Immigration. Introduction The Home Office’s New Plan for Immigration indicates an intention to turbo-charge the...
The New Plan for Immigration: Blaming the Wrong People Leads to Proposing the Wrong Solutions to the Wrong Problems
Blog post by Sheona York (Kent Law Clinic, University of Kent), and forms part of a series of blog posts responding to the UK Home Office's New Plan for Immigration. In this blog post I discuss specific problems raised by the UK government’s New Plan for...
Age Assessment in the New Plan: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed… Something Blue?
Blog post by Dr Ruth Brittle (Nottingham Trent University), and forms part of a series of blog posts responding to the UK Home Office's New Plan for Immigration. Introduction In the Queen’s Speech on 11th May, the government confirmed their intention to...
Entrenching Invisibility and Creating Vulnerability: The Absence of Disability in the UK’s New Plan for Immigration
Blog post by Nicolette Busuttil (Queen Mary University of London), and forms part of a series of blog posts responding to the UK Home Office's New Plan for Immigration. Introduction This blog post engages with the absence of meaningful reference to...
UK Home Office should seek to remove barriers faced by stateless children born in the UK rather than making it more difficult for them to acquire British citizenship
Blog post by Cynthia Orchard (ENS Individual member) and Nina Murray (Head of Policy & Research at the European Network on Statelessness), and forms part of a series of blog posts responding to the UK Home Office's New Plan for Immigration. This post was...
The Dangers of Penalising Irregular Arrivals – Lessons from the Australian Model of Offshore Processing
Blog post by Maria O’Sullivan, Monash University, and forms part of a series of blog posts responding to the UK Home Office's New Plan for Immigration. Introduction The UK government’s New Plan for Immigration sets out proposals which have distinct...
The New Plan for Immigration and the risks of extending Temporary Protection Status
Blog post by Jessica Schultz (Chr. Michelsen Institute, TemPro project), Esra Kaytaz (Coventry University and TemPro project) and Maria O’Sullivan (Monash University), and forms part of a series of blog posts responding to the UK Home Office's New Plan for...
The UK’s New Plan for Immigration: “Protecting those Fleeing Persecution, Oppression and Tyranny”
Blog post by Professor Elspeth Guild, Queen Mary University of London, and forms part of a series of blog posts responding to the UK Home Office's New Plan for Immigration. Introduction The UK has opened a consultation on its New Plan for Immigration,...
The Right to Remain for Victims of Modern Slavery
Blog post by Maja Grundler, Queen Mary, University of London, and forms part of a series of blog posts responding to the UK Home Office's New Plan for Immigration. Introduction The UK government’s “New Plan for Immigration” contains a number of...
The overcriminalisation of facilitation of illegal entry: the dangers of the symbolic application of criminal law to deter irregular migration
Blog post by Marta Minetti, Queen Mary, University of London, and forms part of a series of blog posts responding to the UK Home Office's New Plan for Immigration. Introduction The deterrence of illegal entry into the UK and “breaking the business model...
“Testing the ‘Well-founded Fear of Persecution’”: Changes Incompatible with Refugee Law
Blog post by Maja Grundler, Queen Mary, University of London, and forms part of a series of blog posts responding to the UK Home Office's New Plan for Immigration. Introduction The UK government’s “New Plan for Immigration” foresees establishing a ‘more...
The UK’s New Plan for Immigration: A Return to Detained Fast Track of Asylum Seekers?
Blog post by Andrew Pitt, Queen Mary, University of London, and forms part of a series of blog posts responding to the UK Home Office's New Plan for Immigration. Introduction In this blog, I examine the proposals in the Government’s New Plan for Immigration...
The New Plan’s “Differentiated Approach to Asylum Claims”: Denial of Access to Status Determination and Protection
Blog post by Maja Grundler, Queen Mary, University of London, and forms part of a series of blog posts responding to the UK Home Office's New Plan for Immigration. Introduction The foreword to UK government’s “New Plan on Immigration” proclaims that ‘[a]t the...
Response to the Home Office Consultation on a New Plan for Immigration: Addressing “Illegal Immigration”
Blog post by Ashleigh Guest, University of Bristol, and forms part of a series of blog posts responding to the UK Home Office's New Plan for Immigration. Introduction The Home Office’s New Plan for Immigration includes extensive provisions on illegal...
Overcriminalisation and Digitalisation in the New Plan for Immigration: A Securitised and Disproportionate Approach
Blog post by Dr Niovi Vavoula, Queen Mary, University of London, and forms part of a series of blog posts responding to the UK Home Office's New Plan for Immigration. Introduction This blog post focuses on Chapter 7 of the New Plan for Immigration titled...
The UK Home Office’s New Plan for Immigration: Coherence with the UN Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees?
Blog post by Professor Elspeth Guild, Queen Mary University of London, and forms part of a series of blog posts responding to the UK Home Office's New Plan for Immigration. On 24 March 2021, the UK Home Office launched a consultation process to receive input...