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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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
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.
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
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
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,
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
State violence in a no-access border zone
Exactly a year ago, a dinghy with 34 people on board sank in the English Channel. There were two survivors. In the three hours it took for the boat to sink, as distress messages flooded in from those on board, French and British coastguards debated whose responsibility it was to rescue them. No help came,
Manston and beyond – violence by design
IRR News 26 October – 9 November 2022 The ‘hostile environment in asylum and immigration policy is an environment that fosters racism, everyday cruelty and violence by design’. So concluded the jury at the London Session of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Violations of the Rights of Migrants and Refugees in June 2019. Fast-forward to
Calendar of Racism and Resistance (26 October – 8 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 25 October: The High Court orders the Home Office