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Fortnightly Bulletin

The IRR50 year wrap-up

IRR News 6 – 22 December 2022 Dear IRRNews Subscriber, This is the last edition of IRR News for the year – and what a year it has been! 2022 marked 50 years since our radical transformation from an establishment body into an anti-racist think-tank. We’ve been incredibly busy, producing articles on policing in schools,

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News

Calendar of Racism and Resistance (6 – 20 December 2022)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Find these stories and all others since 2014 on our searchable database, the Register of Racism and Resistance. ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP Asylum and migrant rights 6 December: It is revealed that Home Office delays

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Press Release

The Sivanandan website

  The IRR is delighted to release a new online archive of A. Sivanandan’s writings, speeches, essays, aphorisms and reviews, spanning six decades. The archive section of the website features a catalogued bibliography of Siva’s works, from the 1960s through to the 2010s. It contains seminal essays such as RAT and the degradation of black

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Comment

International students: pawns in the migration game

  While plans to restrict the entry of international students and their dependants appear to be another gesture to appease the Right, their treatment as a rightless cohort has a longer history. Nepali student Sulav Khadka was interrogated and detained on arrival in the UK to take up his scholarship at York university in October.

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News

Calendar of Racism and Resistance (22 November – 6 December 2022)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Find these stories and all others since 2014 on our searchable database, the Register of Racism and Resistance. ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP Asylum and migrant rights 23 November: Home secretary Suella Braverman is unable to

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Fortnightly Bulletin

International students: pawns in the migration game

IRR News 22 November – 08 December 2022 Dear IRR News Subscriber, Recently the Guardian reported on Nepali student Sulav Khadka, interrogated and detained for twelve days on arrival in the UK to take up his scholarship at York University. This exposé of an immigration injustice that left a student in limbo and thousands of pounds

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Comment

Manston: state violence in a no-access border zone

  The Manston camp has been emptied following the death of a man who was detained there. But this will not put an end to the humanitarian crisis facing newly arrived migrants and refugees, which is caused by policies of criminalisation and deterrence. Since February, an isolated former RAF base near the village of Manston,

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Calendar of Racism and Resistance (8 – 22 November 2022)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Find these stories and all others since 2014 on our searchable database, the Register of Racism and Resistance. ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP Asylum and migrant rights 8 November: Spanish interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska is accused

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