Jeff Crisp
@jfcrisp.bsky.social
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
Former head of policy development & evaluation, UNHCR. Now with Refugee Studies Centre and United Against Inhumanity.
jefferyfcrisp@gmail.com
I can't stand 'statistics' like this one!
Weather-related disasters are forcing people to flee their homes.
But did you know that over the last 10 years, there’s been an average of one new displacement every 1.5 seconds?
#COP30
But did you know that over the last 10 years, there’s been an average of one new displacement every 1.5 seconds?
#COP30
November 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I can't stand 'statistics' like this one!
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EU member states are once again locking horns over asylum policy, reviving old rifts that never truly healed.
EU’s migration dilemma returns as ‘solidarity’ meets political reality
EU member states are once again locking horns over asylum policy, reviving old rifts that never truly healed.
euobserver.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
EU member states are once again locking horns over asylum policy, reviving old rifts that never truly healed.
Repatriated or deported?
Tunisia: 10,000 irregular migrants repatriated this year #Refugees
Tunisia: 10,000 irregular migrants repatriated this year
www.infomigrants.net
November 6, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Repatriated or deported?
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One more week! See the post below for registration details 🇸🇩
#KeepEyesonSudan
#KeepEyesonSudan
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...
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
One more week! See the post below for registration details 🇸🇩
#KeepEyesonSudan
#KeepEyesonSudan
Exactly what the right-wing ecosystem has been trying to achieve.
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.
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.
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.
November 6, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Exactly what the right-wing ecosystem has been trying to achieve.
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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.
The problem for the Trump *administration* is that no one believes that anymore.
More broadly, heavily-Latino counties moved far to the right in NJ last year, and back to the left this year:
November 5, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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.
The problem for the Trump *administration* is that no one believes that anymore.
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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...
”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
November 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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...
”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...
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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...
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...
October 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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...
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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"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...
- 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
October 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
"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...
- Guardian
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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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
October 24, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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.
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Switzerland: Travel ban announced for refugees and asylum seekers #Refugees
Switzerland: Travel ban announced for refugees and asylum seekers
www.infomigrants.net
October 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Switzerland: Travel ban announced for refugees and asylum seekers #Refugees
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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
October 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Dublin riots subside after days of anti-immigration violence at asylum seeker hotel #Refugees
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.
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
October 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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.
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.
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“We love this country so much that unless it changes into a different one, we’re going elsewhere. We’re patriots“
'Get rid of the migrants or I'll become a migrant' is quite the argument
October 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
“We love this country so much that unless it changes into a different one, we’re going elsewhere. We’re patriots“
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🚨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
🧵
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
🧵
October 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
🚨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
🧵
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
🧵
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These changes - preventing those who’ve successfully claimed asylum from bringing family here, as they used to - will cause colossal damage and distress to people, and the miserable, dishonest, superficial, headline-grabbing “process” the government has followed is shameful beyond belief
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
October 18, 2025 at 9:31 AM
These changes - preventing those who’ve successfully claimed asylum from bringing family here, as they used to - will cause colossal damage and distress to people, and the miserable, dishonest, superficial, headline-grabbing “process” the government has followed is shameful beyond belief
The latest on the race to become UNHCR chief.
Current candidates and my prediction of the outcome:
x.com/JFCrisp/stat...
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
October 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The latest on the race to become UNHCR chief.
Current candidates and my prediction of the outcome:
x.com/JFCrisp/stat...
Current candidates and my prediction of the outcome:
x.com/JFCrisp/stat...
Detention and deportation have become the key features of asylum policy in the Global North.
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
October 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Detention and deportation have become the key features of asylum policy in the Global North.
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...
My thoughts on Nik Tan's excellent and thought-provoking new study, 'Transnational asylum: towards a principled approach'.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
October 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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...
My thoughts on Nik Tan's excellent and thought-provoking new study, 'Transnational asylum: towards a principled approach'.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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...
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
October 10, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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...
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...
'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...
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
October 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
'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...
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...
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“Despite condemning the racist and divisive rhetoric of Farage and his followers, Starmer’s Government continue to accept the central premise of his message that the biggest problem facing the country is the amount of people who want to come and live here.“
🔴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
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
October 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
“Despite condemning the racist and divisive rhetoric of Farage and his followers, Starmer’s Government continue to accept the central premise of his message that the biggest problem facing the country is the amount of people who want to come and live here.“
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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...
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
October 2, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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...
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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