PoliticsMigration deal: ‘Really a scheme around political diplomacy between UK and France in post-Brexit era’

Parvati Nair of Queen Mary University of London describes the UK-France migration agreement as a small but revealing part of their broader post-Brexit relationship. She says migration is tied to diplomacy, security, intelligence and surveillance, and warns the scheme could reduce a complex human reality to numbers and deterrence while obscuring migrants’ plight.