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Ruben Andersson

Ruben Andersson is professor of social anthropology at the University of Oxford

February 2024

  • A Spanish legionnaire indicates the direction to follow to Moroccan citizens on El Tarajal beach, as they get out of the water on the Spanish side of the fence between the Spanish-Moroccan border, after thousands of Moroccans swam across this border on Monday, in Ceuta, Spain, May 18, 2021.

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘Weapons of mass migration’: how states exploit the failure of migration policies – podcast

    Just like the war on drugs and the war on terror, efforts at stopping population movement by force often just fuel the problem. But for many claiming to confront the perceived threat, that suits all too well. By Ruben Andersson and David Keen
    Podcast26:51

December 2023

  • A Spanish legionnaire directs people who have swum across the border from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in May 2021.

    The long read
    ‘Weapons of mass migration’: how states exploit the failure of migration policies

    The long read: Just like the war on drugs and the war on terror, efforts at stopping population movement by force often just fuel the problem. But for many claiming to confront the perceived threat, that suits all too well

August 2015

  • calais migrants security fence

    double quotation markThe European Union’s migrant ‘emergency’ is entirely of its own making

    Ruben Andersson
    We could treat asylum and labour mobility as questions of justice or opportunity, as some European states did in the postwar era

June 2009

  • double quotation markDeath of the super model

    Ruben Andersson
    Ruben Andersson: As Sweden takes over the presidency of the EU, the sad truth is that its famed social state is failing
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