Glyn-Blanco, Rebecca and McLintock, Maria. 2025. 'What is Rwanda?'. In: What is Rwanda?. CICC School, United Kingdom 15 April 2025. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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The Conservative government’s Rwanda asylum plan – a plan to detain and banish people seeking protection in Britain – was halted in July 2024. Yet outsourcing policies are an increasing dimension of migration management processes in and beyond Europe, echoing historical precedents.

For the inaugural book in System of Systems’ ‘Managing Displacement’ series, writer and legal scholar Nadine El-Enany posed the question: what is Rwanda?, examining how legacies of empire leave distinct traces in the contemporary migratory moment. In the essay, El-Enany unravels the psychosocial forces of displacement attached to policies of exclusion through the psychoanalytic notion of ‘splitting’.

For the CICC, El-Enany expanded upon this question alongside journalist and writer Daniel Trilling. The so-called failed policy was revisited and reflected upon considering what forms of solidarity may emerge across Europe as outsourcing models are increasingly deployed.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Talk)
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Design
Dates:	Date Event 15 April 2025 Completed
Event Location:	CICC School, United Kingdom
Date range:	15 April 2025
Item ID:	39205
Date Deposited:	15 Jul 2025 10:57
Last Modified:	15 Jul 2025 10:57
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/39205

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