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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Dear IRR News subscriber, As the general election approaches, campaigners are doing their utmost to ensure that some of the most burning issues of our times are being discussed. How can we rebuild community, after decades of de-industrialisation, cuts to services and youth provision, and how can we undo the damaging austerity that has ripped
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. ASYLUM AND MIGRATION Asylum and migrant rights 20 November: Doctors, nurses, and healthcare unions call on the prime minister to scrap the ‘health surcharge’ for non-EU NHS staff accessing NHS treatment after he proposes to increase the amount
Elephant and Castle is London’s gentrification ‘ground zero’ – where a blueprint for other large scale regeneration projects is to be made. There is an ethnically diverse community of traders, workers, shoppers, passers-by and residents who all rely on the affordable services provided by the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre in Southwark. However, this appears
