One-way ticket to Rwanda? Boris Johnson's cruel refugee tactic meets Kagame's shady immigration handling

Abstract: Boris Johnson's populist policy against immigrants and asylum seekers, dumped in detention camps in Rwanda, may not succeed because of legal constraints. Yet, his political agenda will probably work nevertheless, given the growing xenophobia among his electorate. Against expert advice, Home Secretary Priti Patel promised the autocratic ruler in Kigali, Paul Kagame, responsible among others for retribution killings of his army (RPF), to transfer an initial £120m to deter the migrants and to make them "settle and thrive" in Rwanda. However, London would have to pay much more in the proposed "economic transformation and integration fund" for the current cost. It is highly unlikely that Rwanda will be able to cope with additional immigrants as it is already struggling to accommodate its own more than 130,000 refugees. Moreover, in the past, also Denmark and Israel had tried in vain to execute similar policies to get rid of undesirable migrants and settling them in Rwanda and Uganda. Jo

Object Details

• Alternative title: Einfache Fahrt nach Ruanda? Boris Johnson's Flüchtlingspolitik trifft sich mit Kagame's unseriöser Einwanderungspolitik
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 16 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Preprint ; nicht begutachtet

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Politik

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2022
• Creator: Kohnert, Dirk

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-83054-3
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 25.03.2025, 1:43 PM CET