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, ensuring it was not laid to rest, and considering what forms of solidarity may emerge across Europe as outsourcing models are increasingly deployed.
The CICC School Programme was a series of talks, workshops, assemblies, screenings, guided walks, and performances designed to activate the CICC installation at Ambika P3 and across London and provide additional context for and examining the threads of research that connect intergenerational climate crimes to our present.
For further information visit the CICC School programme.