A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Find these stories and all others since 2014 on our searchable database, the Register of Racism and Resistance. ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP Asylum and migrant rights 7 November: Home Office data released to the Scottish government
ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP Borders and internal controls 11 November: The Telegraph claims that the policing and immigration ministers have asked all English and Welsh police forces to report foreign individuals caught in potentially ‘extremist activities’ that could ground revocation of visas, and have also asked the Community Security Trust to pass on
‘County lines’: racism, safeguarding and statecraft in Britain by Insa Koch, Lauren Wroe and Patrick Williams, three leading experts in law, criminal justice and legal and social policy, is published in the IRR’s journal Race & Class. ‘County Lines’ refers to the government and police’s unique crime label for describing an ‘export mode’ of
24 Oct – 7 November 2023 This week, after the home secretary claimed that those demonstrating in support of a ceasefire in Gaza were participating in ‘hate marches’, and the prime minister declared that during a forthcoming national rally in Armistice weekend, any ‘desecration’ of the Cenotaph would be an ‘affront to British values’, the
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Find these stories and all others since 2014 on our searchable database, the Register of Racism and Resistance. ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP Asylum and migrant rights 23 October: Asylum Aid, on behalf of a Cote d’Ivorian
ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY 25 October: The South Wales Islamic Centre issues a statement accusing the leader of the Labour party of using social media to ‘gravely’ misrepresent a meeting with Muslim leaders in Wales where the situation in Palestine was discussed; they apologise for the ‘hurt and confusion’ caused by hosting Starmer. (Guardian, 25
10 – 24 October 2023 Racism, in essence, involves dehumanisation, the attaching of less value to certain lives. And it can also involve criminalisation, for example by turning one group into a suspect community needing control and harsher punishment. What we have witnessed here since 7 October is a transformation of a knee-jerk anti-Palestinianism into
ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP Asylum and migrant rights 23 October: A coalition of charities and groups hopes to urge the UK government to introduce a package of emergency measures, including a family reunion scheme for Palestinians in Gaza and a medical evacuation programme for people in need of specialist care. (Guardian, 23 October 2023) Deportation
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Find these stories and all others since 2014 on our searchable database, the Register of Racism and Resistance. ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP Asylum and migrant rights 10 October: Many Afghans eligible for sanctuary in the UK
22 September – 10 October 2023 Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s speech at the Conservative Party Conference last week has been widely criticised for decrying a ‘hurricane of mass immigration’, calling the Human Rights Act the ‘Criminal Rights Act’, demonising minorities and railing against so-called ‘gender ideology’. See our Calendar of Racism and Resistance for further
