Migration deal: 'Really a scheme around political diplomacy between UK & France in post-Brexit era'
Erin Ogunkeye is pleased to welcome Parvati Nair, Professor of Hispanic, Cultural and Migration Studies at Queen Mary University of London. She sees the UK-France migration agreement as a small but revealing element of a much wider post-Brexit relationship, in which questions of migration are intertwined with diplomacy, security, intelligence and surveillance. She warns that the scheme risks turning a complex human reality trivialises it into numbers and deterrence, while obscuring the plight of people who might be political or economic refugees. Many of those making these journeys have fled c