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 2 September: An analysis of Home Office figures reveals that between 2016-18 the Home Office refused at least 3,100 asylum claims from lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) nationals from countries
Dear IRR News subscriber, Like his hero Churchill, Boris Johnson has proved to be quite arrogant in his racism. Amidst the chaotic bearpit that was this week’s House of Commons, we should not forget that it witnessed one of the sole times a prime minister was called to account in the House for racism. Tanmanjeet
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 18 August: Médecins sans Frontières spokesperson reacts with disbelief to UNHCR official Vincent Cochelet’s tweets expressing concern for ‘the radicalisation of migratory dreams’, which he explains as refugees’ rejection of jobs
If Boris Johnson’s government survives, the chaos of the immigration system it plans to impose will lead to untold misery. During the Tory leadership campaign, Boris Johnson set out his approach to immigration policy: to make it easier for highly skilled migrants to enter, and tougher for those who ‘abuse our hospitality’ – the usual
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 3 August: Italy grants refugee status to Medhanie Tesfamariam Berhe, the Eritrean man who served three years in prison after being mistaken for an international human trafficker. (Guardian, 3 August 2019)
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 22 July: Channel 4’s Dispatches exposes the ‘golden visa’ programme, revealing how easy it is for those with £2 million to obtain settlement in the UK with investor visas using criminally
Dear IRR News subscriber, Violent police arrests and discriminatory police practices across the country continue to alarm, as our calendar of racism and resistance documents – a subject also touched upon, albeit historically and in the context of class, in Phil Scraton’s scathing piece for IRR News on Boris Johnson’s repetition of Hillsborough lies. Last
Recent initiatives on school exclusions miss the point, ‘alternative provision’ has been transformed into a business opportunity. According to A. Sivanandan, ‘the adult occupies the world of the child far more than the child occupies the world of the adult.’ [1] Nowhere is this statement truer than in the realm of education. The British education
As the notion of a Green New Deal rapidly spreads as an answer to capitalism in US and UK media and political circles, our lead article in July 2019 asks if Green capitalism can propose a real solution to the ecological crisis and the human crises of poverty, austerity, immigration and racism. Green capitalism and
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. POLICE AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM 4 July: A study by the University of Essex, based on analysis of six live trials of facial recognition technology by the Metropolitan police in Soho, Romford and the Westfield shopping centre in
