*UoL Redeployees Only* Research Fellow in Human Geography Grade 7

You will be a research assistant on the E.S.R.C. project Channel Crossings Irregular Migration, Policies and Politics in the English Channel. This study examines the phenomenon of irregular Channel Crossings across the English Channel, particularly small boat crossings, and the UK government¿s responses to those movements. These journeys have profound implications for those who take them, as well as far reaching political implications. They have created a media-storm and a political crisis, leading to a series of reactive policy interventions being planned, delayed and shelved by the UK government. These include plans for nets or flotillas to be erected in the Channel to prevent irregular sea crossings, for asylum seekers to be put in detention on disused ferries and building asylum processing centres on remote UK territories in the Atlantic Ocean. More recently, the UK government was challenged in attempts to deport asylum applicants who arrive by boat to Rwanda, and plans announced in October 2022 suggest the potential suspension of rights of asylum altogether.