Political Economy
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Small Boats, Big Contracts: Extracting Value from the UK's Post-Brexit Asylum ‘Crisis’
The issue of post-Brexit asylum policy in the UK.
- Immigration
- Brexit
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‘Full-Fat, Semi-Skimmed or Skimmed?’ The Political Economy of Immigration Policy since Brexit
Examining the political economy of immigration policy.
- Conservative Party
- Immigration
- Brexit
- Labour Party
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Immigration and Asylum Policy after Brexit: An Introduction
Recent immigration and asylum policies reflect the ambivalent, unstable and unresolved meanings of Brexit itself.
- Immigration
- Brexit
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The Persistence of the Hostile Environment after the Windrush Scandal
From a lack of measurable impact on migration statistics to the Windrush scandal, why does the hostile environment persist?
- Conservative Party
- Immigration
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The UK's ‘Safe and Legal’ Humanitarian Routes: from Colonial Ties to Privatising Protection
Evaluating the UK's ‘safe and legal (humanitarian)' immigration routes.
- Immigration
- Brexit
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Immigration and the Brexit Catastrophe: Empire, Citizenship and Ignorance
How the Conservatives presided over policies that demonised black Britons whilst admitting hundreds of thousands of immigrants.
- Immigration
- Brexit
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Immigration and Asylum Policy After Brexit
The EU referendum was won on the promise of ‘taking back control’, yet, since Brexit, immigration has increased to record levels and the nationalities of people coming to the UK have become more diverse. Although some aspects of immigration policy have evolved in a liberal direction, others have become increasingly restrictive. The Conservative government has pursued a draconian agenda on asylum, borders and irregular migration. This collection explores how recent immigration and asylum policies reflect the ambivalent, unstable and unresolved meanings of Brexit itself.
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The New Transition Politics of Net Zero
A new type of transition politics which engages with multiple systems is needed to rise to the climate challenge.
- Trade
- Environment & Climate Change
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The State We're In
UKICE's report 'The State of the UK Economy 2024' is a constructive framing both of where we stand and what might be done about it.
- Trade