Author - Institute of Race Relations

Written by: Jon Burnett

Assistant editor of IRR News and carries out research into racial violence, domestic race policy in the UK and the economics of migration. He has previously worked as a researcher for Medical Justice and Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers, Leeds. Recent reports include State sponsored cruelty: children in immigration detention and, with Dave Whyte, The Wages of Fear. His reports on New geographies of racism are published by IRR.

April 22 2021 Written by: Jon Burnett

Calendar of racism and resistance (8-22 April 2021)

April 22 2021 Written by: Jon Burnett

From Camus to Covid-19

April 20 2021 Written by: Jon Burnett

Sewell: a report for neoliberal times

April 14 2021 Written by: Jon Burnett

Sewell, stigma and the policing of race

April 9 2021 Written by: Jon Burnett

IRR News (25 March – 8 April 2021)

April 8 2021 Written by: Jon Burnett

Calendar of racism and resistance (25 March – 8 April 2021)

April 7 2021 Written by: Jon Burnett

Audio: Race & Class collaborates with Surviving Society podcast

March 31 2021 Written by: Jon Burnett

IRR: Sewell report seeks to sideline structural factors attached to racism

March 29 2021 Written by: Jon Burnett

Remembering Nina Mühe

March 26 2021 Written by: Jon Burnett

Policing in the Brexit State – Back to the 1980s

March 25 2021 Written by: Jon Burnett

Calendar of Racism and Resistance (12 – 25 March 2021)

March 25 2021 Written by: Jon Burnett

Cuba and Pan-Africanism – recovering historical moments

March 15 2021 Written by: Jon Burnett

Roots of Racism is now free to download

March 11 2021 Written by: Jon Burnett

Calendar of Racism and Resistance (26 February – 11 March 2021)

March 9 2021 Written by: Jon Burnett

Who gets to define racism?

March 8 2021 Written by: Jon Burnett

Safety or stigma? FGM safeguarding measures in the UK

February 25 2021 Written by: Jon Burnett

Calendar of Racism and Resistance (12 – 25 February 2021)

February 16 2021 Written by: Jon Burnett

Mawda Shawri – When truth, justice and humanity are in short supply

February 11 2021 Written by: Jon Burnett

Calendar of Racism and Resistance (29 January – 11 February 2021)

February 11 2021 Written by: Jon Burnett

Thin Blue Line

February 10 2021 Written by: Jon Burnett

Bristol following the fall of Colston

January 28 2021 Written by: Jon Burnett

Calendar of Racism and Resistance (14 – 28 January 2021)

January 28 2021 Written by: Jon Burnett

Mental health and black deaths in police custody

January 26 2021 Written by: Jon Burnett

‘The violence of the system’: race, mental health, state violence

January 22 2021 Written by: Jon Burnett

Is Biden wrong to say this is NOT America?

January 14 2021 Written by: Jon Burnett

Calendar of Racism and Resistance (1 – 13 January 2021)

January 13 2021 Written by: Jon Burnett

Dangerous role models: Police specialist squads and gang policing between Nigeria, America and the UK

December 31 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

Calendar of Racism and Resistance (17 – 31 December 2020)

December 18 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

Calendar of Racism and Resistance (3 – 16 December 2020)

December 16 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

Shrinking the space for human rights: A look back on 2020

December 3 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

Calendar of Racism and Resistance (19 November – 2 December 2020)

November 25 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

Deadly Crossings and the militarisation of Britain’s borders

November 23 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

From CIAC to EHRC: the long view on current controversies

November 19 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

Calendar of Racism and Resistance (3 – 18 November 2020)

November 5 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

Calendar of Racism and Resistance (23 October – 2 November 2020)

November 3 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

Divesting from immigration policing – the abolitionist challenge

October 22 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

Building from the base, starting from the streets

October 22 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

Calendar of Racism and Resistance (9 – 22 October 2020)

October 21 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

A watershed moment

October 20 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

The Policing of Black Youth Projects: From Broadwater Farm to the Present

October 8 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

Calendar of Racism and Resistance (25 September – 8 October 2020)

October 7 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

Clipping the wings of Black Lives Matter? An interview with Gus John

September 28 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

How Black Working-Class Youth are Criminalised and Excluded in the English School System

September 24 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

Calendar of Racism and Resistance ( 11 – 24 September 2020)

September 11 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

Remembering Tor Bach

September 10 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

Calendar of Racism and Resistance (28 August – 10 September 2020)

August 27 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

Calendar of Racism and Resistance (14 August – 27 August)

August 13 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

Calendar of Racism and Resistance (29 July – 13 August 2020)

July 30 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

IRR: Local authorities must probe police use of data analytics to map communities

July 30 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

Calendar of Racism and Resistance (15 – 28 July 2020)

July 30 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

Two weeks of horror in Urban House: Wakefield Covid-19 outbreak

July 24 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

Movement for Black Lives: an interview with Barbara Ransby

July 16 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

Taser trauma: an increasingly British phenomenon

July 2 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

IRR News 17 June – 1 July 2020

June 18 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

IRR News (3 – 17 June 2020)

June 18 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

‘It Happens Here, Too’ – Resourcing struggles for racial justice

June 4 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

IRR News (20 May – 3 June 2020)

May 21 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

IRR News (6 – 20 May 2020)

May 7 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

IRR News (22 April – 6 May 2020)

April 23 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

IRR News (8 – 22 April 2020)

April 9 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

IRR News (25 March – 8 April 2020)

March 26 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

IRR News (11 – 25 March 2020)

March 12 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

IRR News (26 February – 11 March 2020)

February 27 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

IRR News (12 – 26 February 2020)

February 13 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

IRR News (29 January – 12 February 2020)

January 30 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

IRR News (15 – 29 January 2020)

January 30 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

Fault lines in the fight against racism and antisemitism

January 16 2020 Written by: Jon Burnett

IRR News (1 – 15 January 2020)

December 12 2019 Written by: Jon Burnett

IRR News (27 November – 12 December 2019)

November 28 2019 Written by: Jon Burnett

IRR News (13 – 27 November 2019)

November 14 2019 Written by: Jon Burnett

IRR News (31 October – 13 November 2019)

October 31 2019 Written by: Jon Burnett

IRR News (16 – 30 October 2019)

October 17 2019 Written by: Jon Burnett

IRR News (1 – 15 October 2019)

October 3 2019 Written by: Jon Burnett

IRR News (18 September – 3 October 2019)

September 19 2019 Written by: Jon Burnett

IRR News (3 – 17 September 2019)

September 5 2019 Written by: Jon Burnett

IRR News (16 August – 2 September 2019)

July 18 2019 Written by: Jon Burnett

IRR News (3 – 16 July 2019)

September 21 2018 Written by: Jon Burnett

Empire Windrush, Notting Hill and the importance of archives

May 17 2018 Written by: Jon Burnett

Police database spreads institutional racism

July 29 2003 Written by: Jon Burnett

Death at the border – who is to blame?

November 11 2002 Written by: Jon Burnett

Black Deaths in Custody

February 19 2000 Written by: Jon Burnett

Macpherson and after