The Westminster attacks provided the occasion for anti-immigration, anti-refugee politicians the world over to vindicate their positions in the public narrative. It was not just Britain First and the English Defence League which tried to make political capital out of the deadly attacks in Westminster on 22 March. UK-based politicians and international figures were not
David Goodhart’s new book calls for an understanding of ‘majority grievances’ , which, he argues, represent ‘decent populism’ not racism. Remember the story about the blind men and the elephant? Each one feels the thing in front of him and finds something different: one man felt the ears: ‘this is a fan’; one felt the
A Birmingham resident fiercely objects, in the wake of the recent deadly terror attack at Westminster, to the depiction of her city as the hotbed of extremism. According to the Daily Mail (‘So how DID Birmingham become the jihadi capital of Britain?’, 24 March 2017), I live in the ‘jihadi capital of Britain’, Birmingham. ‘Birmingham. Birmingham.
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week, following on from Liz Fekete’s analysis of refugee deaths in Greece, the IRR’s News Team examines seven deaths on the western Balkans route, focusing on Serbia and its borders with Hungary and Bulgaria. Responsibility for these deaths belongs not only with national governments such as Hungary’s, fomenting anti-refugee hatred
Aisha Maniar examines the UK government’s policy of carrying out language analysis tests on undocumented asylum claimants. Asylum Now According to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), a record 65.3 million people worldwide were displaced within and without borders in 2015. Although increasing slightly each year since 2010, after having fallen sharply in the first
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration March: Women for Refugee Women publish a report: The Way Ahead: An asylum system without detention, download it here (pdf file, 3mb). 2 March: The Migrant and Refugee Children’s Legal Unit (MiCLU) publish a report:
A public push is needed to stop refugee and migrant deaths on the western Balkans route. IRR News continues its investigation into violations and deaths at EU borders, focusing on seven deaths in the Serbian, Hungarian and Bulgarian border zones. All the official reports, photographic evidence, testimonies and case studies are there. Fresh Response Serbia,
Sonia Nandzik of the Serbian volunteer group Fresh Response describes how the group has responded to the increasing savagery of Hungarian police at the border. The work of our independent group of volunteers, Fresh Response, has changed and taken on new significance in the light of the increasing human rights violations at the Serbian-Hungarian border.
Dear IRR News subscriber, Two weeks ago Irene Clennell, a woman with a 27-year marriage to a British citizen, British children and a British grandchild, was deported to Singapore. The case has caused outrage. But as Frances Webber shows on IRR News this week, it is no aberration. Rather, it is the inevitable outcome of
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 24 February: Following a legal challenge by the Refugee Council, the High Court rules that local authorities must support age-disputed asylum seekers as children. (EIN, 27 February 2017) 26 February: Irene Clennell, 52, is deported
