A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 6 April: A new immigration skills charge comes into force, requiring employers to pay a £1,000 annual levy for hiring certain skilled workers from outside the European Economic Area. It is feared the charge could
Vron Ware’s photographs documenting the Black People’s Day of Action (1981) bearing witness to an important moment of resistance in post-war Britain. Thursday 9 March – Saturday 27 May 2017 Goldsmiths, University of London, Richard Hoggart Building, Kingsway Corridor, Dixon Road, London SE14 6YZ Related links View further details here Facebook event listing
A photo exhibition exploring the critical question of identity among young working-class British Asian men. Exhibition from Friday 5 May – Saturday 1 July 2017 Rivington Place, Autograph ABP, London EC2A 3BA Related links View further details here Facebook event listing
The Lesbian Immigration Support Group (LISG) launch their exhibition Love Is Not a Crime and celebrate their 10th anniversary. Thursday 13th April, 6-8pm People’s History Museum, Left Bank, Manchester M3 3ER Love Is Not a Crime runs from Friday 14 April 2017 to Sunday 25 June 2017 Related Links Eventbrite page
Second seminar in the Baobab Centre’s lecture series with David Kogan, Executive Director of Magnum Photos giving a personal and pictorial account on the theme of ‘From Children of Europe to Lesbos: What have we learnt in 70 years?’. Thursday 6 April 2017, 6pm Palace House, 3 Cathedral Street, London SE1 9DE (next to the Golden
A public push is needed to stop refugee and migrant deaths on the western Balkans route. IRR News continues its investigation into violations and deaths at EU borders, focusing on seven deaths in the Serbian, Hungarian and Bulgarian border zones. All the official reports, photographic evidence, testimonies and case studies are there. Fresh Response Serbia,
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 8 February: New research by Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID) finds that hundreds of foreign nationals being held in prison are being denied access to immigration advice. Download the report: Mind the Gap: Immigration Advice
A panel presenting the results of ESRC funded research into the treatment of the dead in Italy and Greece, and the position of relatives in Tunisia and Turkey. Wednesday 22 March 2017, 6-7.30pm 32L.G.03, 32 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London WC2A 2AE Speakers include: Dr Claire Moon – Associate Professor
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and immigration January 2016: The Migration Observatory publishes a report: Young People and Migration in the UK: An Overview. View and download it here. 27 January: The Belgian interior minister announces that Belgium, France and the Netherlands
As refugees and migrants die in Greece’s ‘hotspots’, military camps and in transit, the EU, the UNHCR and Greek institutions must be held to account. When the European Commission announced, in September 2015, a plan to create hotspots to fingerprint, screen and register refugees arriving in Greece and Italy, many of the larger humanitarian agencies
