The government’s bifurcated approach to racial equality is deepening fissures in our movements with anti-racism emerging as a key site of struggle Those of us who have contributed to the anti-racist movement for decades have been left demoralised by the ‘debate’ about racism and antisemitism both prior to and during the general election. Academic, author
Continuing delays, disrepair and insanitary conditions have caused one local authority to decide it will tell the Home Office to end its contract with the Mears Group, and will take asylum housing back in-house. Last week Cllr Paul Wood, Sheffield City Council cabinet member for neighbourhoods and community safety, talked to me about the widespread
What will be the ramifications of the Conservative government’s policies, as set out in the December Queen’s Speech, for BAME communities and all those fighting for racial justice, both domestically and internationally? Criminal justice In the field of criminal justice, the proposed new offence of criminal trespass on land dramatically intensifies the war on Gypsies
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. ASYLUM AND MIGRATION Asylum and migration rights 1 January: Campaign groups Foxglove and the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) criticise the Home Office’s refusal to disclose the list of countries it deems ‘high-risk’ in the
A lively community-focused panel discussion in Manchester about the impact of Stop & Search on local BAME communities. Hosted by Sites of Restitance, an EQUAL’s #TimeToTalk discussion on the topic of ‘Unreasonable Suspicion: the effects of Stop and Search practice’. Confirmed speakers: Andy Burnham, Roxy Legane and Patrick Williams At Manchester Metropolitan University, Geoffrey Manton building (Lecture
We are looking for a new communications officer at IRR to join our dedicated team at our London office. We are looking for a motivated person with strong communication skills and a commitment to anti-racism to join our team of researcher-writers conveying information and analyses about racism and ways to tackle it, in the UK
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. ELECTORAL POLITICS – UK 10 December: Open Democracy publishes details of ‘sickening’ ‘inflammatory’ and ‘discriminatory’ anti-Roma, anti-Gypsy statements made by Conservative candidates across the country in the run-up to the election. Michael Gove and Priti Patel are singled
How can a genuinely anti-racist feminist approach tackle serious sexual violence without demonising entire communities? In 2019 we saw the further entrenchment of the ‘grooming gangs’ narrative in the media and in public debate around child sexual exploitation in the UK – a narrative that is has promoted a number of harms both to Muslim
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 28 November: The Paris Administrative Court orders the agency in charge of immigration and integration (Ofii) to resume negotiations to make phone calls to immigration services are free of charge. The
When researcher John Grayson visited a family with disabilities living in a Mears asylum house in Rotherham, he was stunned by what he saw. ‘That’s where the rats get in.’ April [all names have been changed] was showing me round the kitchen in her Rotherham asylum house. I was visiting her with a volunteer interpreter
