The ways that countries apply the refugee convention have always reflected political alliances and ideologies. Eleanor painter is a post doctoral associate at cornell university. It's called migrations, a world on the move. Earlier in the show, you heard from shaffi musadik, briton corse, pondent at the christian science monitor. Our show to day was made by halima shah.
The British government will deport UK-bound migrants to Rwanda. It’s part of a larger trend of rich countries offloading asylum seekers to poorer countries.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Tori Dominguez, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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