Register of Racism and Resistance (RRR)

15th consecutive rise in care population in England over past year, DfE data shows
20 November 23
Annual statistics from the Department for Education show that young people seeking asylum are increasingly placed in unregulated accommodation, as charities criticise reforms to supported accommodation as insufficient and discriminatory as they do not require 16 and 17-year-olds to be offered ‘care’.
Source: Community Care
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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Advocacy campaign: Migrant regularizations in Italy face significant delays
20 November 23
 A campaign is launched in  Italy  to protest the ‘terrible delays’ in the regularisation amnesty implemented in 2020 for undocumented workers. In Rome and Milan, fewer that 60% of requests for regularisation have been examined.
Source: InfoMigrants
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: Italy
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Scabies outbreak as asylum seekers housed in old RAF base told to isolate
18 November 23
An outbreak of highly infectious scabies is reported to be affecting asylum seekers at the RAF Wethersfield accommodation centre.
Source: Mirror
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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Hundreds of Afghans evacuated from Pakistan ‘dumped’ in military bases as UK scrambles to find them homes
18 November 23
As Pakistan launches a crackdown on refugees without visas, the MOD scrambles to relocate thousands of Afghan refugees who worked alongside British troops in Afghanistan (Operation Lazurite) to the UK, ‘dumping’ them across the country in military bases surrounded by barbed wire fences, where they are cannot leave and are left without information or support.
Source: Independent
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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Investigations launched after death of Albanian man detained by Home Office
17 November 23
Three investigations are launched after a 37-year-old Albanian man dies in hospital after an attempted suicide at the Brook House immigration removal centre a week earlier, which sparked protests among Albanian and other detainees, along with the deportation of a second man who had attempted suicide. Human rights campaigners emphasise the fear that trafficked Albanians feel under threat of return.
Source: Guardian
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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Council blunder leads to Knaresborough addresses of child asylum seekers published online
16 November 23
North Yorkshire Council reveals online the addresses of Knaresborough properties where asylum seeking children are to be housed.
Source: Your Harrogate
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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Wethersfield asylum seekers protest over conditions on base
16 November 23
Asylum seekers housed at RAF Wethersfield stage a protest about prison-like conditions and the ‘lack of medicine, blankets and clothing’.
Source: BBC
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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EU planning new anti-migration deals with Egypt and Tunisia, unrepetant in support for Libya
16 November 23
The European Commission seeks new ‘anti-smuggling partnerships’ with Egypt and Tunisia before the end of 2023, despite clear evidence of abuse against migrants and refugees in both countries and racist violence endorsed by the Tunisian government.
Source: Statewatch
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: EU
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SOS MEDITERRANEE documents Italian authorities detaining rescuee ship coming from Libya
15 November 23
Italian authorities detain SOS Méditerranée’s Ocean Viking for 20 days and issues a €3,000 fine for rescuing migrants in the Libyan Search and Rescue zone which stretches across most of the central Mediterranean.
Source: SOS Mediterranee on X/Twitter
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: Italy
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Braverman had no evidence for ‘fake gay asylum seekers’ claim
15 November 23
The Home Office admits it has no evidence to support former home secretary Suella Braverman’s claim that asylum seekers pretend to be gay to ‘game’ the asylum system .
Source: Open Democracy
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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Deprivation and the no recourse to public funds (NRPF) condition
15 November 23
The Migration Observatory publishes Deprivation and the No Recourse to Public Funds condition , which finds that 2.6 million people were subject to the condition at the end of 2022, with recent arrivals from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Iran most likely to be living in deprivation.
Source: Migration Observatory
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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Rishi Sunak to bring in emergency law after supreme court’s Rwanda ruling
15 November 23
The prime minister declares that a new treaty will be enacted with Rwanda and emergency legislation introduced ‘confirming’ that Rwanda is safe for asylum seekers. The Bar Council says such a law would raise ‘profound and important questions about the respective roles of the courts and parliament’.
Source: Guardian
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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Supreme court rejects Rishi Sunak’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda
15 November 23
The Supreme Court unanimously upholds the appeal court ruling that the Rwanda policy is unlawful, as it presents a real risk of asylum seekers being sent back to the country from which they fled and subsequently persecuted.
Source: Guardian
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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Helicopters, riding boots and vacuum cleaners: How French border force spends UK money
13 November 23
Some of the £40.4 million given by the British government to the French border police for stopping small boats embarking from the French coast was spent on policing the Franco-Italian border, while some was spent on microwaves, car vacuum cleaners, and riding boots, helmets and horse care for a horse brigade, a freedom of information request reveals.
Source: Politico
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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IOM Libya’s Maritime Update
13 November 23
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) reports that so far in 2023, almost 2,200 migrants have died or gone missing in the central Mediterranean , while 13,611 have been intercepted and returned to Libya . Refugees in Libya posts videos sent by traffickers showing them torturing migrants to force their families to send money.
Source: IOM on X/Twitter
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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