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Model Essay Examples - Assignment 1

Word Count Range and Marking of Over-length Coursework Policy

OSCOLA Guidance

IOM Glossary of Key concepts on migration- Here is a link to key migration concepts by the International Organisation of Migration

Bail Hearings - IMMIGRATION BAIL QUESTIONNAIRE

Right to Remain - Glossary

6th October - Introduction to the Course

Arendt, We Refugees (1943)

John Campbell, Bureaucracy, Law and Dystopia in the United Kingdom’s Asylum System (Routledge, 2017), Chapter 7

Eddie Bruce-Jones, Refugee Law in Crisis: Decolonizing the Architecture of Violence, in Mary Bosworth and others (eds.), Race, Criminal Justice, and Migration Control: Enforcing the Boundaries of Belonging (Oxford University Press, 2018)

UK Border tensions: Anti-immigration protests on the rise – BBC Newsnight 20th September 2020

The Conversation, The UK immigration system is broken – coronavirus and Brexit will make it even worse, September 9, 2020

Class 1 Slides

13th October - Immigration and Asylum law in Practice - Clinic element

Besso and Quadi, ‘Covid 19 Implications for bail hearings’, Garden Chambers

Coronavirus and the UK immigration system, free movement

First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) Rules Consolidated version – from 1 February 2020

Immigration and Asylum Chamber The First Tier-Tribunal User Guide August 2020 Update

Class 2 Slides

20th October - Key Concepts and terminology

Catherine Dauvergne, ‘Sovereignty, Migration and the Rule of Law in Global Times’ Modern Law Review (2004) 67(4), 588-615

E. Tendayi Achiume, ‘Reimagining International Law for Global Migration: Migration as Decolonization’ AJIL unbound 111 (2017), 142-146

Bridget Anderson and Scott Blinder, ‘Who Counts as a Migrant? Definitions and consequences’ (2019)

House of Commons, Asylum Statistics- Number SN01403, 3 September 2020

Class 3 Slides

27th October - History of Asylum and Immigration Law

Bridget Anderson, Us &amp; Them: The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Control (Oxford University Press, 2015), 29-47

Amreen Qureshi, Marley Morris and Lucy Mort, ‘Access Denied: the Human Impact of the Hostile Environment’, Institute for Public Policy Research, September 2020 (Skim -read)

Windrush Lessons Learned Review

Prakash Shah, Refugees, race and the legal concept of asylum in Britain (Routledge, 2000), 201-210

Watch the recording of the Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID) panel discussing the ‘ Wendy Williams’ Windrush Lessons Learned Review’ ( play 31:55- 37.30)

Padlet - The History of UK Immigration law = thoughts &amp; observations

Class 4 Slides

Freemovement, Immigration system failure: where did it all go wrong?

Coronavirus and the UK immigration system

3rd November - The Definition of Refugee

Jane McAdam, ‘The Enduring Relevance of the 1951 Refugee Convention’ (2017) 29(1) International Journal of Refugee Law 1-9

UNHCR, Handbook and Guidelines on Procedures and Criteria for Determining Refugee Status under the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees (2011), paras. 1-27

Class 5 Slides

Freemovement, The Refugee Convention: who are refugees and asylum seekers?

17th November- UK Asylum system, Status determination, Remedies

Schuster L, Fatal flaws in the UK asylum decision-making system: an analysis of Home Office refusal letters, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, (2020) Volume 46(7) 1371

Nath Gbikpi, ‘How to Claim Asylum in the UK’, Free Movement, August 2018

Right to Remain, ‘Changes to the asylum and immigration process due to Covid-19’

Home Office Blog, ‘Factsheet – Asylum Accommodation, Applications and Interviews’

Right to Remain - An introduction to claiming asylum in the UK, 2019

Right to Remain -the asylum interview, 2019

Right to Remain- the asylum substantive interview, 2019

Class 6 slides

Freemovement, The problem with “credibility” as a concept in asylum cases

Freemovement, Important Court of Appeal judgment on expert evidence and “credibility”

24th November - The Rights of Asylum Seekers and Refugees under the Convention and Human Rights Law

OHCHR, ‘The principle of non-refoulement under international human rights law’

Jason Pobjoy and Sarah Spencer, ’Equality for all? The relationship between immigration status and the allocation of rights in the United Kingdom’ (2012) European Human Rights Law Review 2 160-175

Home Office -Exclusion (Article 1F) and Article 33(2) of the Refugee Convention, 2016

Class 7 Slides

1st December - Seeking Asylum in the UK: Country Study

Hypothetical case scenario

Verney, Does your Tribe Have a Flag?

MM(Darfuris) Sudan

Sudan Country Policy and Information Notes

AAR&amp;AA (Non-Arab Darfuris-return) Sudan

Inspection report on country of origin information

BBC, clip on Darfur refugees to the UK

Class 8 Slides

Bridget Anderson, Us & Them: The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Control (Oxford University Press, 2015), 29-47

Padlet - The History of UK Immigration law = thoughts & observations

AAR&AA (Non-Arab Darfuris-return) Sudan

The politics of evidence-based policy in Europe’s ‘migration crisis’ Martin Baldwin-Edwards, Brad K. Blitz & Heaven Crawley, Journal or Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2019, 45, No. 12, 2139–2155

Bridget Anderson, Us & Them: The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Control (Oxford University Press, 2015), 93-114