Migreurop, a coalition of organisations from thirteen European, African and Middle Eastern countries, has produced an extremely useful and powerful report which describes in detail ways in which the policy of preventing the entry of undocumented migrants is implemented. The first part of At the margins of Europe: the externalisation of migration controls, looks at
To celebrate the fact that the late Manning Marable has been awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for history for his ground-breaking book, Malcolm X – a life of reinvention, Race & Class makes available for free the seminal articles that Professor Marable wrote on the politics of the black working class in the US. Manning
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week, Frances Webber comments on the European Court ruling on the extradition of Babar Ahmad and others and reviews a report on ‘apathetic children’ in Sweden which sheds light on a condition so far unrecognised here. You can also download (for free) A. Sivanandan’s seminal article, ‘From resistance to rebellion: Asian and Afro-Caribbean
Is the European Court selling Ahmad out, and the kettled demonstrators before him, for the sake of making peace with a British government determined to get the court off its back? The Strasbourg court’s judgment in Ahmad and others,[1] ruling that the punitive regime in which four of them are likely to spend many years
A report on ‘apathetic children’ in Sweden is important for UK asylum campaigners for the light it sheds on a condition so far unrecognised here. This useful report from Sweden throws light on the authorities’ treatment of children in asylum-seeking families who have developed severe depressive devitalisation (‘apathetic children’). The children become extremely distressed and
The Institute of Race Relations is releasing a free download of A. Sivanandan’s landmark essay, ‘From resistance to rebellion: Asian and Afro-Caribbean struggles in Britain’, first published in Race & Class in 1981. Detailing the resistance of black communities to the discrimination of the British state, Sivanandan reminds us throughout that acts of resistance are
Dear IRR News subscriber, We hope you are getting used to the new look weekly email. This week, we have a special report from Peter Hervig on the recent gathering of Defence League’s in Aarhus: ‘European anti-Islam demonstration flops in Denmark‘. And in news from the UK, in Glasgow the evictions of asylum seekers have begun and Frances
X-raying migrant children to determine age and proposals to monitor all communications, as well as the proposed secret justice measures, further target ‘suspect communities’. The pilot x-ray scheme to assess the age of young asylum seekers whose claims to be children are disbelieved, which started at the end of March with virtually no notice, has
Over 100 asylum seekers are facing eviction in Glasgow, after Serco was contracted to manage their accommodation. In January 2011, immigration minister Damien Green apologised for the ‘inappropriateness’ of government proposals to evict hundreds of asylum seekers from Glasgow, turfing them onto the streets if they refused to accept accommodation outside the city.[1] Fast forward
An eyewitness analyses the English and Danish Defence Leagues’ failure to mobilise a pan-European movement against Islam. One of the largest police presences in recent Danish history was ready and waiting when extreme-right and Islamophobic groups from all over Europe met on 31 March in Denmark’s second largest city, Aarhus, to demonstrate against Islam. The
