This research network explores, though a series of workshops, the social, historical and political processes which structure the UK-Rwanda partnership and the externalisation and offshoring of asylum more widely, alongside how these policies are resisted. Whilst much of the commentary and analysis of the partnership has been journalistic, the project aims to build capacity to understand the long-term social forces, material and political interests that underpin the policy, as well as broader social consequences of externalising asylum and its alternatives. It seeks to bring together an interdisciplinary team of academic researchers, to bring their analysis, scholarship and lived experience to bear on understanding the consequences this has on asylum and humanitarian protection.

This two day workshop is the second in the series. The agenda will be posted here in due course.