Marta Welander is a doctoral researcher and visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster in London and executive director of Refugee Rights Europe. https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/contributor/marta-welander/rss en Wed, 30 Jan 2019 09:30:00 +0000 Marta Welander https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2019/01/30/how-the-british-government-deters-migrants-via-the-politics-of-exhaustion https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2019/01/30/how-the-british-government-deters-migrants-via-the-politics-of-exhaustion The British government has seized on the small recent increase in sea crossings to Britain as an opportunity to literally exhaust asylum seekers through a raft of deterrence measures, writes Marta Welander, executive director of Refugee Rights Europe.