christopher griffin<p>The UK government's plan to send asylum seekers to <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Rwanda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rwanda</span></a> became law this morning. In this blog post for Engenderings, I argue that the policy is not merely a cruel and cynical (not to mention expensive) deterrent, it is also colonial and cisnormative.</p><p>And the Rwanda plan is comparable to another racialised and gendered policy: the detention of migrants aboard a huge barge.</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/RwandaDeportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RwandaDeportation</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/BibbyStockholm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BibbyStockholm</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/coloniality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coloniality</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/cisnormativity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cisnormativity</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/migration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>migration</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Engenderings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Engenderings</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/LSE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LSE</span></a></p><p><a href="https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/gender/2024/04/23/colonial-cisnationalism-notes-on-empire-and-gender-in-the-uks-migration-policy/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blogs.lse.ac.uk/gender/2024/04</span><span class="invisible">/23/colonial-cisnationalism-notes-on-empire-and-gender-in-the-uks-migration-policy/</span></a></p>