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IRR News (1 – 15 January 2020)

Dear IRR News subscriber, We start 2020 by publishing a path-breaking article in Race & Class, which asks how a genuinely anti-racist feminist approach can tackle serious sexual violence without demonising entire communities.  In  ‘Failing victims, fuelling hate’  (free to download) Ella Cockbain, a key researcher of child sexual abuse/exploitation, and criminologist Waqas Tufail, together

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Comment

The Queen’s Speech: setting the ‘public’ against its ‘enemies’

What will be the ramifications of the Conservative government’s policies, as set out in the December Queen’s Speech, for BAME communities and all those fighting for racial justice, both domestically and internationally? Criminal justice In the field of criminal justice, the proposed new offence of criminal trespass on land dramatically intensifies the war on Gypsies

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Calendar of racism and resistance (1-15 January 2020)

 A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. ASYLUM AND MIGRATION Asylum and migration rights 1 January: Campaign groups Foxglove and the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) criticise the Home Office’s refusal to disclose the list of countries it deems ‘high-risk’ in the

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New communications job vacancy at IRR

We are looking for a new communications officer at IRR to join our dedicated team at our London office.   We are looking for a motivated person with strong communication skills and a commitment to anti-racism to join our team of researcher-writers conveying information and analyses about racism and ways to tackle it, in the UK

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Calendar of racism and resistance (10 – 31 December 2019)

 A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. ELECTORAL POLITICS – UK 10 December: Open Democracy publishes details of ‘sickening’ ‘inflammatory’ and ‘discriminatory’ anti-Roma, anti-Gypsy statements made by Conservative candidates across the country in the run-up to the election. Michael Gove and Priti Patel are singled

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Press Release

Failing victims, fuelling hate

How can a genuinely anti-racist feminist approach tackle serious sexual violence without demonising entire communities? In 2019 we saw the further entrenchment of the ‘grooming gangs’ narrative in the media and in public debate around child sexual exploitation in the UK – a narrative that is has promoted a number of harms both to Muslim

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Fortnightly Bulletin

IRR News (27 November – 12 December 2019)

Dear IRR News subscriber, We write this newsletter as Britain goes to the polls. We don’t know which party or parties will form the next government. But the new government faces a country scarred by poverty and destitution on a scale probably unprecedented since the birth of the welfare state. Vulnerable people such as disabled

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Calendar of racism and resistance (27 November – 12 December 2019)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. ASYLUM, MIGRATION, CITIZENSHIP Asylum and migrant rights 28 November: The Paris Administrative Court orders the agency in charge of immigration and integration (Ofii) to resume negotiations to make phone calls to immigration services are free of charge. The

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Comment

Rats in the kitchen, sodden carpets in the living room

When researcher John Grayson visited a family with disabilities living in a Mears asylum house in Rotherham, he was stunned by what he saw. ‘That’s where the rats get in.’ April [all names have been changed] was showing me round the kitchen in her Rotherham asylum house. I was visiting her with a volunteer interpreter

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