A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. ASYLUM, MIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP Asylum and migrant rights 17 September: The inquest opens into the death of Mulubrhane Medhane Kfleyosus, a 19-year-old asylum seeker from Milton Keynes who took his life on 18 February 2019, the fourth from
If we are not vigilant, the government’s attempts to deny the links between speech that inflames and actual acts of physical violence could be extended to deny or excuse incitement to racial hatred. On BBC’s Andrew Marr show, Boris Johnson defended his use of ‘martial metaphors’ in the first parliamentary debate since parliament was reconvened
Drawing on a recently published report, Leaving the War on Terror: a progressive alternative to counter-terrorism policy, Arun Kundnani outlines why counter-terrorism policies do not work, and what an alternative could look like. The starting point for this report goes back two years to a speech Jeremy Corbyn gave at Chatham House, in which he
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. ASYLUM, MIGRATION, CITIZENSHIP Asylum and migrant rights 2 September: An analysis of Home Office figures reveals that between 2016-18 the Home Office refused at least 3,100 asylum claims from lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) nationals from countries
The event, which falls within London Challenge Poverty Week, will address human rights and attitudes related to economic injustice and the causes and consequences of poverty. 16 October 2019 at Resource for London at 7pm. Speakers include Amina Gichinga, an organiser with London Renters Union, Jean Stallings and Diana Skelton of All Together in Dignity
A night of readings and resistance hosted by Wasafiri exploring literature’s power to create ‘home’ in hostile environments for people on the margins. 15 October 2019, Free word centre, London Tickets £7-£10 (£2 unwaged tickets available) 7pm – 9pm With Roger Robinson, Winsome Pinnock, Inua Ellams and Bridget Minamore More information here
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. ASYLUM AND MIGRATION Asylum and migrant rights 18 August: Médecins sans Frontières spokesperson reacts with disbelief to UNHCR official Vincent Cochelet’s tweets expressing concern for ‘the radicalisation of migratory dreams’, which he explains as refugees’ rejection of jobs
If Boris Johnson’s government survives, the chaos of the immigration system it plans to impose will lead to untold misery. During the Tory leadership campaign, Boris Johnson set out his approach to immigration policy: to make it easier for highly skilled migrants to enter, and tougher for those who ‘abuse our hospitality’ – the usual
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. ASYLUM AND MIGRATION Asylum and migrant rights 3 August: Italy grants refugee status to Medhanie Tesfamariam Berhe, the Eritrean man who served three years in prison after being mistaken for an international human trafficker. (Guardian, 3 August 2019)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. ASYLUM AND MIGRATION Asylum and migrant rights 22 July: Channel 4’s Dispatches exposes the ‘golden visa’ programme, revealing how easy it is for those with £2 million to obtain settlement in the UK with investor visas using criminally
