This year six men have died in immigration detention centres — the deadliest year since the IRR began recording deaths in immigration detention. The most recent death occurred, on 19 November, when 27-year-old Arim Bakar, an Iraqi man was found dead at the Prison Service-run Morton Hall, where two others have died this year. Detainees at
‘We are the Lions Mr Manager’ is a small but perfectly formed play which tells the story of the Grunwick strike. A two-hander, it tells a digested version of the Grunwick saga, a major moment in labour history which seems to have faded in the collective memory. The work of the Grunwick 40 campaign over
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 27 October: Agnes Callamard, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, and Arbitrary Executions, presents a new report to the UN General Assembly on ‘Unlawful Death of Refugees and Migrants’, download it here. (Der Spiegel, 28
A fundraiser for Hackney Migrant Centre with films, discussion and live music. Sunday 26 November 2017, 2-5pm Rio Cinema, 107 Kingsland High Street, London E8 2PB Films include: Calais Children: A Case to Answer (UK, 2017) 60 min Passing Tides (UK, 2016) 18 min Ugwumpiti (UK, 2016) 20 min Discussion with: Sue Clayton – director
To mark the publication of IRR’s new research into the hostile political and legal environment facing humanitarian actors who seek to protect life at Europe’s sea and land borders, the IRR invites you to a wide-ranging discussion of how EU policies are shrinking the space for humanitarian action while feeding the far Right. Monday 4
The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) publishes today research showing that EU member states are using laws, aimed at traffickers and smugglers, to criminalise those acting out of humanitarian motives. The rhetoric of EU politicians and its border force, Frontex, may be fuelling far-right extremism, it IRR warns. It has written to the European Commission
In a podcast, Race & Class Editorial Working Committee member Arun Kundnani talks to journalist Anand Gopal and filmmaker Madiha Tahir about US empire in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan under Trump, and the US Left’s response. Anand Gopal has reported for the Wall Street Journal, Harpers, and the Atlantic and is the author of No Good Men Among
An evening to discuss the future of migrants’ rights in the UK. Thursday 30 November 2017, 5.30-9.30pm Amnesty International UK, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA Speakers include: Prof. Bridget Anderson – Professor of Mobilities, Migration and Citizenship at the University of Bristol Black Lives Matter UK – to be confirmed Simon Cox –
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 20 October: A pregnant asylum seeker living in ‘dangerous housing’ provided by G4S in Doncaster pleads to be moved. (Open Democracy, 20 October 2017) 20 October: The Home Office publishes: Grenfell Tower immigration cases (guidance
A meeting to discuss the recent acquittals of the three officers involved in death of Kingsley Burrell and what to do next. Wednesday 15 November 2017, 7pm – 9pm AfroCaribbean Millenium Centre, 339 Dudley Road, Birmingham B18 4HB Related links Facebook event listing Justice for Kingsley Burrell
