Yesterday @alarmphone.bsky.social documented what appears to have been a pushback in the Channel. I am not clear on all the details but pushbacks are prohibited under international law.

My colleagues Rachel Ibreck, Souhayel Weslety and I wrote a field reflection titled ‘The “UNFAIR” refugee agency: UNHCR accountability after protests and violence’ based on fieldwork researching refugee-led protests at UNHCR offices in Cairo, Tripoli and Tunisa.

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We treat Channel crossings today as exceptional, and the RNLI is called a "migrant taxi service." However, people have long sought refuge across the Channel. On this day in 1939, two German refugees were rescued in the Channel by the RNLI and brought to safety in the UK.

As seems to be the custom on here, meet Fennec and Moss.

Finally, with my colleagues Rachel Ibreck and Martina Tazzioli, I co-authored the article "Counter-Archiving Migration: Tracing the Records of Protests against UNHCR".

This can be found open-access in International Political Sociology here: academic-oup-com.gold.idm.oclc.org/ips/article/...

Second is an article I co-authored with my friend and colleague, Antje Scharenberg, in Political Geography titled "The Sea in Sea Rescue: Conceptualising solidarity with maritime migrants".
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First off is an article, titled, "The nomos of citizenship: migrant rights, law and the possibility of justice" published in the journal Contemporary Political Theory".

You can find it open access here: rdcu.be/dwhVn