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Perhaps one of the most contentious questions within debates around migration is how the movement of people across international borders affect levels of crime. Simply asking the question carries certain assumptions about the relevance of someone’s migration background to whether or not they are more at risk of committing or being the victim or crime. What does the criminological research tell us about what, if anything, we know about immigration and crime?

In this episode: Amber Beckley, criminologist at Stockholm University
https://www.su.se/english/profiles/ambe0256-1.187765

Talking Migration is supported by the University of Manchester.

The Danish parliament has voted in favour of seeking bilateral agreements with third countries to process and protect asylum seekers there instead of in Denmark. The practical and legal obstacles are many, as are worries about the protection of asylum seekers' human rights.

In this episode: Nikolas Tan, Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights https://www.humanrights.dk/staff/nikolas-feith-tan

Blog post by Nikolas Tan on the Danish policy: https://rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/04/19/denmarks-extraterritorial-asylum-vision/

EU citizens in the UK had to apply for settled status by the end of June. What does this entail and what happened to those who failed to do so? Why are employers checking the status of their employees?

In this episode: Olivia Vicol, co-founder and Director of Work Rights Centre - https://www.workrightscentre.org/

Talking Migration is supported by the University of Manchester

The UK government has published the New Plan for Immigration policy paper and a consultation period ran from late March to early May. The policy paper describes reforms to the asylum system and other parts of the immigration system. In this episode, we discuss the plans, their implications and criticism.

In this episode:

William Wheeler, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Manchester https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/william.wheeler.html

Recent work: https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/refugees-and-religion-ethnographic-studies-of-global-trajectories/ch13-conversion-through-destitution

Robert Thomas, Professor of Public Law, University of Manchester https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/researchers/robert-thomas(6d45ce04-7714-421b-b67a-b19fd2d7fb37).html

Recent work: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PgCNG_godY0-rjwGyvP1hbXyWjdi55IW/view

Charity mentioned in the episode:
Migrant Destitution Fund https://www.migrantdestitution.co.uk/

Apologies for occasional poor sound quality.

In 2017, Dina Nayeri, an American-Iranian author, wrote an article for the Guardian with the title ‘The ungrateful refugee: We have no debt to repay’. Last year, she published the book ‘The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You’, which tells her own and several other refugees’ stories while exploring themes of refugee life.

In this episode: Dina Nayeri http://www.dinanayeri.com/

Book: The Ungrateful Refuge https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-ungrateful-refugee/dina-nayeri/9781786893499
Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/04/dina-nayeri-ungrateful-refugee

Charities:
Refugee Support https://www.refugeesupport.eu/
Freedom From Torture https://www.freedomfromtorture.org/
SecondTree https://secondtree.org/
HostNation https://www.hostnation.org.uk/
RAID(Rights and Accountability in Development)https://www.raid-uk.org/

Every year, people die trying to reach safety and a better future in a different country. But how many and who they are has been mostly unknown. The Missing Migrants Project, run by IOM, has started to collect data on who the people are who have lost their lives while migrating.

In this episode: Kate Dearden, Project Officer

https://missingmigrants.iom.int/

Talking Migration is supported by the University of Manchester