The lack of trained interpreters inside immigration detention exacerbates fear, mistrust and depression and has contributed to a number of deaths. The Stephen Shaw Review into the Welfare in Detention of Vulnerable Persons in Britain’s immigration detention estate, published in January 2016, is the latest in a long line of reports that make recommendations to
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week on IRR News, in a comprehensive analysis of the way private companies in Germany are employing neo-Nazis to work in refugee reception centres, Priska Komaromi shows how lives are put at risk when the care of asylum seekers is handed over to the free market. We reproduce a speech
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 3 March: Home Secretary Theresa May wins the right to deport refused asylum seekers to Afghanistan after the Court of Appeal overturns an injunction imposed following concerns that the country was too dangerous. (Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
The Institute of Race Relations, based in London’s Kings Cross, is giving away surplus duplicated material and invites individuals and specialist libraries and archives to take the chance of adding to their collections. You will be able to view and take away material from IRR’s ground floor (2-6 Leeke Street, London WC1X 9HS) on Thursday
The German government’s use of the largely unregulated private security sector in the reception and care of asylum seekers has led to neo-Nazis having unrestricted access to the very people they want to harm. Rene S. was an active member of the neo-Nazi organisation ‘Sturm 18’, with a criminal record, yet in 2015, he was
A new radical, illustrated anthology highlights the links between music, politics and protest during the miners’ strike. Mention the miners’ strike of 1984-5 and most people will remember Thatcher and Arthur Scargill. What they may not say is ‘community’. And yet the most important aspect in terms of British history was the strength of community
Below we reproduce a speech at the eleventh annual Huntley Conference on the IRR’s Black History Collection and the importance of archives in signposting the past and future. Today I want to talk to you about an item from the Black History Collection, which is held at the Institute of Race Relations. But before I get
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week on IRR News, we publish Entitlement and belonging: social restructuring and multicultural Britain, examining the Immigration and Housing and Planning Bills 2015-16 currently going through parliament. It argues that together they will restructure the face of urban Britain, provide a pretext for the continued displacement of the marginalised, normalise
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum 25 February: Home Office statistics reveal that the number of unaccompanied asylum seeking children has increased by over 50 per cent in the last year, with 3,043 children seeking asylum in 2015, compared with 1,945 in 2014.
Paul Polansky, author and Romani rights activist, remembers Lubomir Zubak who died on 23 December 2015. Lubomir Zubak, noted Romani rights activist in the Czech Republic in the 1990s, was the first to publicly call for the removal of the pig farm built over the WWII Roma concentration camp at Lety. His one-man demonstration carrying
