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Written by: Liz Fekete

DIRECTOR OF THE IRR AND HEAD OF ITS EUROPEAN RESEARCH PROGRAMME.

She has worked at the IRR since 1982. She writes and speaks extensively on aspects of contemporary racism and fascism, refugee rights, EU counter-radicalisation and anti-terrorism policies  and Islamophobia across Europe, and is author of A suitable enemy: racism, migration and Islamophobia in Europe (Pluto, 2009)and Europe’s Fault Lines: racism and the rise of the Right (Verso, 2018) .  Liz was part of the CARF Collective, and an expert witness at the Basso Permanent People’s Tribunal on asylum and the World Tribunal on Iraq. She is currently an associate of the International State Crime Initiative at Queen Mary University of London, and the Border Crossing Observatory at Monash University, Australia.

Liz Fekete can be contacted via the following email: secretary@irr.org.uk