The Expulsion Agreement for Migrants from the United Kingdom to Rwanda is part of the migration “discouragement” strategy that the Conservative Party has adopted for more than ten years, recalls Thibaud Harrois, lecturer in civilization Contemporary British.
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The United Kingdom’s project to expel asylum seekers to Rwanda was blocked by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), but the government of Boris Johnson continues on Wednesday, June 15, D ‘Display your determination.
The British executive presents this agreement with the country of West Africa as a means of discouraging the illegal crossings of the Channel, which continue to increase despite the repeated promises of Boris Johnson, from Brexit, to control immigration. Despite criticism from the UN and the Anglican Church, the British Minister of the Interior, Priti Pradel, said on Wednesday that London would not be “discouraged by inevitable last minute appeals”, saying that ” preparations for the next flights had already started “.
For Thibaud Harrois, Lecturer in Contemporary British Civilization at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle University, the implementation of this agreement is the culmination of several years of hardening of the policy of conservatives on immigration. According to him, “with each difficulty inner level for the Conservative Party, the government plays on the antieuropée and anti-immigration speeches” which the supporters of Brexit are using.
the displayed and claimed firmness of the government From Boris Johnson in terms of migration policy taking root in the Brexit campaign and its promises?
Partisans of the exit of the European Union have indeed campaigned on the idea of ”regain control”, and in particular borders. From Brexit, the British government has hardened its migration policy by introducing, for example, a point visa system and clearly claiming its will to slow down immigration.
Immigration is very present in the British public debate. We often see scandals bursting that make the “one” newspapers about Small Boats, these boats on which migrants cross the Channel to join the United Kingdom. This subject is fundamental for part of the conservatives and the government of Boris Johnson did not hesitate to go up in pinning.
Brexit is however the symptom of a change in approach to the migratory question in the United Kingdom which is previous. The British Prime Minister today defends his agreement with Rwanda by affirming that these evictions will “dissuade” migrants from crossing the Channel. Already at the time when Theresa May was Minister of the Interior of David Cameron [2010-2016], the government had established a hostile environmental policy, the objective of which was to “discourage” immigration. The conservative speech has continued to tighten since then.
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