Home Secretary announces £75 million to crack down on people smugglers
17 September 24
The home secretary announces funding of £75 million to deliver ‘state-of-the-art technologies and enhanced intelligence’ to improve the capabilities of the Border Security Command.
Source: Standard
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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Germany reintroduces border checks to far-right praise as EU tensions mount
16 September 24
Far-right leaders in Hungary, Netherlands, Italy and France react with jubilation as Germany reintroduces temporary checks at all nine of its land borders, with the interior minister saying the checks are necessary to combat irregular migration and ‘protect against…Islamist terrorism and serious crime’.
Source: Guardian
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: EU
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Copying Italy’s migration policies won’t stop Channel deaths, says charity
16 September 24
President of the International Rescue Committee and former Labour foreign secretary David Miliband says that the government should offer safe routes to refugees, as Starmer shows great interest in the far-right Italian government’s offshoring deal with Albania.
Source: Guardian
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: Italy
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Neo-Nazi with ‘armoury’ in Falkirk home guilty of terror offences
16 September 24
A neo-Nazi based in Falkirk, Scotland is found guilty of charges under the Terrorism Act, racism, antisemitism, Holocaust denial and breach of the peace. The man, who referred to Norwegian neo-Nazi and mass murderer Anders Breivik as ‘Saint Anders’, was found to be in possession of weapons including a crossbow, samurai sword, ball bearings and 14 knives, some of which had Nazi and SS insignia.
Source: BBCNews
Category: ANTI-FASCISM AND THE FAR RIGHT
Country: UK, Scotland
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Giorgia Meloni: Starmer showed great interest in our Albania migration deal
16 September 24
Keir Starmer, on a visit to Italy with the new border security commander, pledges £4m to support Giorgia Meloni’s crackdown on ‘irregular migration’ and says that learning from the Italians marks ‘a return to British pragmatism’, commending Meloni’s ‘upstream work that tackles the issue at its source’.
Source: Guardian
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: Italy
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‘Quite shocking’ lack of government contact during UK riots, says MCB head
16 September 24
The head of the Muslim Council of Britain asks why, despite her appeals for contact during the summer riots, the government has not engaged with the group since being elected, as the first minister and police chiefs in Northern Ireland had done.
Source: Guardian
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK, Ireland
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Ukrainian draft dodgers should not get social benefits in EU countries, says Polish foreign minister
16 September 24
Poland’s foreign minister, Radosław Sikorski, calls on European countries to end social benefits for military-age Ukrainian men, saying they should not be rewarded for avoiding the draft.
Source: Notes from Poland
Category: ELECTORAL POLITICS | GOVERNMENT POLICY
Country: UK
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The German far-right’s digital push: Analysing the AfD’s campaign in Saxony and Thuringia
16 September 24
Analysis by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue finds that AfD campaign material was most commonly found on X and Facebook in the build-up to state elections in Saxony and Thuringia, Germany. According to this analysis, these platforms, despite stricter EU regulation, failed to properly check the evolving language of the far Right, like the AfD’s use of the term ‘remigration’.
Source: ISD
Category: EMPLOYMENT | EXPLOITATION | INDUSTRIAL ACTION
Country: EU, Germany
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Benefit sanctions more likely for minority ethnic claimants, UK data shows
16 September 24
Figures published by the Department for Work and Pensions show that Black and minority ethnic benefit claimants are disproportionately likely to face universal credit sanctions, with Black claimants 58 per cent, mixed ethnic groups 72 per cent and Asians 5 per cent more likely to be sanctioned than white claimants.
Source: Guardian
Category: EMPLOYMENT | EXPLOITATION | INDUSTRIAL ACTION
Country: UK
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Police reassure arriving students after UK riots
15 September 24
Following far-right violence in the summer, the National Police Chiefs’ Council lead for race and inclusion says that officers are engaging with senior staff and security teams at universities, ‘offering advice and guidance to ensure that vulnerable premises are safeguarded, and that students know where to go for help and support’.
Source: THE
Category: EDUCATION
Country: UK
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Ex-police chief named head of UK’s border security command
15 September 24
The former chair of the National Police Chief’s Council, Martin Hewitt, is appointed to head the new Border Security Command.
Source: Guardian
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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‘Inhumane’ treatment of migrants rounded up in UK’s failed Rwanda plan revealed
14 September 24
FOI-requested documents on Operation Vector (the rounding up of migrants for the Rwanda scheme) obtained by the Observer and Liberty Investigates, record 60 instances of force used by enforcement officers against detainees, including migrants being locked up after the postponement of the policy.
Source: Guardian
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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Young Cardiff activist faces trial for allegedly supporting Hamas
13 September 24
At the Old Bailey, Cardiff Black Lives Matter activist Kwabena Devonish is charged with expressing an opinion or belief supportive of a proscribed organisation in connection with a speech she gave at a Palestine solidarity rally in November 2023.
Source: Morning Star
Category: POLICING | PRISONS | CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
Country: UK
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Universities Launch Global Coalition to Support Refugee Education at Scale
12 September 24
16 universities launch The Global University Academy to develop a framework to meet the ‘need for improved higher education programs and support services for refugees’ and ‘to help support the UNHCR’s goal of increasing refugee access to higher education to 15% by 2030’.
Source: GUA
Category: EDUCATION
Country: UK
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Bibby Stockholm: What next for Portland asylum barge?
12 September 24
From November, asylum seekers on the Bibby Stockholm will be moved off the barge and dispersed across the country to receive their asylum decision, but will not be moved to Portland, Weymouth, or the wider Dorset Council area.
Source: BBC News
Category: ASYLUM | MIGRATION | BORDERS | CITIZENSHIP
Country: UK
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