Dear IRR News subscriber, In a week when the Prime Minister has been widely criticised for his dehumanising description of refugees living in squalid conditions in Calais as a ‘bunch of migrants’ and the stigmatisation of Muslim women, the IRR considers the dangers inherent in government policies which might curtail open debate. In a press
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Calendar of racism and resistance (15 – 28 January 2016)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 13 January: Refugees including children are walking through Russia to Finland in temperatures of minus 30 degrees, according to reports. (Independent Barents Observer, 13 January 2016) 14 January: The Solicitors Regulation Authority announces a review
The human rights of migrants and refugees
The IRR provides evidence of the continued assault on human rights inherent within recent developments in asylum and migration law and policy. In a presentation to the Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner, in January 2016, IRR vice-chair and former immigration barrister Frances Webber documents the ongoing erosion of accountability in the field of migration and
An open discussion about counter-radicalisation measures in schools should be welcomed
A paper[1], Prevent and the Children’s Rights Convention, published today by the Institute of Race Relations supports the NUT’s call[2] for a more rational debate on the Prevent duty in schools. In order to encourage an informed and rational debate on the new duty placed on schools to prevent children being drawn in to terrorism,[3] the IRR
Reparative histories of redress
The January 2016 issue of Race & Class is a special issue on the theme of ‘reparative histories’. In ‘Reparative histories: radical narratives of “race” and resistance’, Cathy Bergin and Anita Rupprecht, organisers of a conference on this theme in 2014, collect a series of essays investigating the complex interactions of history, race, agency, memory
IRR News 18 December 2015 – 14 January 2016
Dear IRR News subscriber, The military-style policing that has emerged in poor multicultural neighbourhoods of Europe, stigmatised in the press as strongholds of Islamist terrorism and organised crime, is the focus of a major feature on IRR News. In this review of policing developments and media reporting since the terrorist attacks in Paris of 13
Calendar of racism and resistance (18 December 2015 – 14 January 2015)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Policing & criminal justice 17 December: The Supreme Court rules that ‘random’ stop and search powers have adequate safeguards in place and that the powers bring ’great benefits to the public’. (Guardian, 17 December 2015) 22 December: The Independent Police
IRR books on special offer
The IRR is selling off remaindered copies of books it published (with the Oxford University Press) between 1958 and 1975, many of which are out of print. If there are particular titles you would like to get hold of contact info@irr.org.uk and we will let you know if we can supply them and at what
Policing with accountability or policing with impunity?
Media stigmatisation of poor multicultural neighbourhoods of Europe as strongholds of Islamist terrorism and organised crime is lending legitimacy to a more coercive, more militarised style of policing. The Home Office is currently reviewing legal protection for police officers who shoot to kill as well as considering whether to transfer the lead role in fighting
IRR News 4 – 17 December 2015
Dear IRR News subscriber, In the final IRR News bulletin of 2015, we report on a recent event in Hackney, held in memory of the late anti-colonialist activist, broadcaster, playwright, teacher, artist and actor Jan Carew. Launching his autobiography Episodes in My Life, Jan’s wife, Joy, discussed his political organising in Guyana, his role as