Jeff Crisp

@jfcrisp.bsky.social

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Posting on refugees, asylum, migration, displacement and borders.
Former head of policy development & evaluation, UNHCR. Now with Refugee Studies Centre and United Against Inhumanity.
jefferyfcrisp@gmail.com

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Jeff Crisp @jfcrisp.bsky.social · 5d

Repatriated or deported?

Refugees @refugees.skyfleet.blue · 5d

Tunisia: 10,000 irregular migrants repatriated this year #Refugees

Tunisia: 10,000 irregular migrants repatriated this year

www.infomigrants.net

Jeff Crisp @jfcrisp.bsky.social · 5d

Exactly what the right-wing ecosystem has been trying to achieve.

Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 5d

It's obviously a bad thing if any prisoner is released by mistake, but why is it worse if it's an asylum-seeker?

It seems just to be taken for granted now that someone is more dangerous because they're an asylum-seeker than because they're a criminal.

Something very dangerous is building here.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 5d

Well, that was a very weird deputy PMQs. James Cartlidge asking the same question five times – could David Lammy guarantee no other jailed asylum seekers have been accidentally released rather than deported – and Lammy each time instead condemning the Tories' record on prisons and justice.

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Bernd Parusel @bernd-parusel.bsky.social · 5d

Europol set to grow.
”Beyond privacy fears, rights groups argue the reform entrenches a ’Fortress Europe’ approach by framing migration as a criminal and security issue. www.euractiv.com/news/parliam...

Parliament backs expanded Europol powers to fight migrant smuggling amid privacy concerns | Euractiv

Rights groups argue that the reform frames migration as a criminal and security issue

www.euractiv.com

Reposted by Scott L. Greer, Steve Peers, Aaron Sojourner , and 2 more Scott L. Greer, Steve Peers, Aaron Sojourner, Jeff Crisp, Virginia Sapiro

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5d

I continue to believe that the Trump *campaign* successfully convinced quite a lot of people that mass deportations did not mean mass deportations; that it meant targeted enforcement against “the bad guys.”

The problem for the Trump *administration* is that no one believes that anymore.

Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 5d

More broadly, heavily-Latino counties moved far to the right in NJ last year, and back to the left this year:

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Refugees @refugees.skyfleet.blue · 5d

Tunisia: 10,000 irregular migrants repatriated this year #Refugees

Tunisia: 10,000 irregular migrants repatriated this year

www.infomigrants.net

Reposted by Christina Pagel, Jeff Crisp

Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 5d

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 5d

Jeff Crisp @jfcrisp.bsky.social · 16d

Refugee and forced migration studies:
How it started. How it's going'.
My presentation to the 2025 Refugee Law Initiative Conference.
Now on Youtube!
youtube.com/watch?v=g05p...
PowerPoint available on request.

Refugee and Forced Migration Studies: How It Started. How It’s Going.

YouTube video by SchAdvStudy

youtube.com

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Refugees @refugees.skyfleet.blue · 17d

Dublin riots subside after days of anti-immigration violence at asylum seeker hotel #Refugees

Dublin riots subside after days of anti-immigration violence at asylum seeker hotel

www.infomigrants.net

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Refugees @refugees.skyfleet.blue · 17d

Switzerland: Travel ban announced for refugees and asylum seekers #Refugees

Switzerland: Travel ban announced for refugees and asylum seekers

www.infomigrants.net

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Elena Habersky @elenahabersky.bsky.social · 17d

Cairo friends, join us for this fabulous conference on Sudanese Experiences in Egypt since April 2023. Hosted by CEDEJ Khartoum on Nov 12-13. #KeepEyesOnSudan 🇸🇩
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 18d

Unsurprisingly, people who actually have to deal with dead bodies in the water are more reluctant to embrace risky and dangerous methods than grandstanding politicians are.

French coastguards demand halt to ‘deadly plans’ to intercept small boats

Union says UK-French Channel deal is inhumane and contravenes international conventions

www.theguardian.com

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 18d

"The result would be removals on an epic scale. The comparison with Idi Amin's expulsion of Ugandan Asians is not one many Tory MPs welcome. Some appear unaware their own policy was that monstrous, until Lam spelled it out in a newspaper interview"
- Guardian
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian view on Conservative immigration policy: the threat of mass expulsions is abhorrent | Editorial

Editorial: Tory plans to revoke indefinite leave to remain in pursuit of greater ‘cultural coherence’ resemble the most extreme ambitions of far-right fringe parties

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Steve Peers, Charlotte Taylor, Derek Edwards , and 2 more Steve Peers, Charlotte Taylor, Derek Edwards, Pam Jarvis, Jeff Crisp

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19d

'Get rid of the migrants or I'll become a migrant' is quite the argument

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Will Jennings, Steve Peers , and 4 more Jonathan Portes, Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Anand Menon, Tom Griffin, Stephen Jones, Jeff Crisp

Reposted by Steve Peers, Alison Phipps, Stephen Evans , and 2 more Steve Peers, Alison Phipps, Stephen Evans, Tim Leunig, Jeff Crisp

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 21d

Some good news/

Home Office evaluation of the Refugee Transitions Outcomes Fund - pilot schemes to help employment, housing and integration for newly recognised refugees.

Substantially improved employment outcomes & had positive fiscal impacts.

www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22d

🚨Small boat migrants getting “private health care” while the rest of us have to use the NHS?!🚨

That’s outrageous!

Or is it?

Might the reality be a little more mundane and a little less clickbait-worthy?

Let’s take a 👀

1/17
🧵

Reposted by Steve Peers, Colin Murray, Jeff Crisp

Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24d

Parliamentary committee says about the government’s restrictions on refugee family reunion rights that immigration policymaking “too frequently react[s] to events, rather than proceeding from rigorous analysis and supported by evidence” and accuses govt of “policymaking by press release” >

House of Lords - Thirty Seventh Report - Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee

publications.parliament.uk

Jeff Crisp @jfcrisp.bsky.social · 28d

The latest on the race to become UNHCR chief.
Current candidates and my prediction of the outcome:
x.com/JFCrisp/stat...

Jeff Crisp on X: "Candidates for UNHCR chief: Nicole de Moor: Belgium Anne Hidalgo: France Niels Annen: Germany Christine Burgener: Switzerland Pekka Haavisto: Finland Ahmet Yildiz: Turkey Jesper Brodin: Sweden Arancha González-Laya: Spain Szymon Holownia: Poland Matthew Crensil: Ghana https://t.co/7qOlQGksWY" / X

Candidates for UNHCR chief: Nicole de Moor: Belgium Anne Hidalgo: France Niels Annen: Germany Christine Burgener: Switzerland Pekka Haavisto: Finland Ahmet Yildiz: Turkey Jesper Brodin: Sweden Arancha González-Laya: Spain Szymon Holownia: Poland Matthew Crensil: Ghana https://t.co/7qOlQGksWY

x.com

Jeff Crisp @jfcrisp.bsky.social · 28d

Detention and deportation have become the key features of asylum policy in the Global North.

Refugees @refugees.skyfleet.blue · 28d

Criticism over German government plan to indefinitely detain migrants to be deported #Refugees

Criticism over German government plan to indefinitely detain migrants to be deported

www.infomigrants.net

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Refugees @refugees.skyfleet.blue · 28d

Criticism over German government plan to indefinitely detain migrants to be deported #Refugees

Criticism over German government plan to indefinitely detain migrants to be deported

www.infomigrants.net

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Jeff Crisp @jfcrisp.bsky.social · Oct 10

Book review!
My thoughts on Nik Tan's excellent and thought-provoking new study, 'Transnational asylum: towards a principled approach'.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Jeff Crisp @jfcrisp.bsky.social · Oct 10

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...

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?

refugeehistory.org

Jeff Crisp @jfcrisp.bsky.social · Oct 8

'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!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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...

docs.google.com

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · Oct 2

🔴Keir Starmer’s Farage-Dominated Conference Takes Labour Up a ‘Darker Path’ Towards a Reform Government

The Prime Minister’s condemnations of Reform’s racist rhetoric, was undermined by him accepting the central premise of Nigel Farage’s anti-migrant politics, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social

Keir Starmer's Farage-Dominated Conference Takes Labour Up a 'Darker Path' Towards a Reform Government

The Prime Minister's condemnations of Reform's racist rhetoric, was undermined by him accepting the central premise of Nigel Farage's anti-migrant politics, argues Adam Bienkov

bylinetimes.com

Reposted by Mary Bosworth, Steve Peers, Cathryn Costello , and 2 more Mary Bosworth, Steve Peers, Cathryn Costello, Colm O’Cinneíde, Jeff Crisp

Catherine Briddick @catbriddick.bsky.social · Oct 2

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....

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Benjamin Thomas White @btwhite.bsky.social · Sep 28

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

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

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 ...

refugeehistory.org

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · Sep 27

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...