As part for the Migration Film Festival the Migration Collective is showing the 1980 film Babylon followed by a panel Q&A. 6:45 – 8:45 pm, Tuesday 4 December 2018 Migration Museum at the Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, SE1 7AG Babylon tells the story of DJ for Brixton reggae sound system ‘Ital Lion Sound’, Blue is getting ready for
Theme: Housing
Calendar of racism and resistance (8 – 21 November)
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 8 November: A total of six EU states, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Austria, the Czech Republic and Croatia, have so far refused to sign the UN’s non-binding Global Compact for Safe, Orderly
The Windrush scandal exposes the dangers of scaremongering about ‘illegal immigrants’
The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) publishes today a background paper showing how the injustices meted out to the Windrush generation are not anomalies but the logical result of an immigration system that, over many years, has weaponised the idea of ‘the illegal immigrant’. How can people who considered themselves British over a lifetime suddenly
Telling the Mayflower Story: Thanksgiving or Land Grabbing, Massacres & Slavery?
Join authors Danny Reilly & Steve Cushion in conversation with Colin Prescod to discuss the overlooked aspects of the Mayflower‘s journey to America in 1620. Friday 30 November, 5:30 pm. UCL Institute of the Americas, 51 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PN In the autumn of 1620 the ship Mayflower, with 102 passengers, landed in North
‘Reclaiming our collective past’; meeting Amrit Wilson
IRR’s Sophia Siddiqui has a discussion with Amrit Wilson, an activist and writer, whose seminal book Finding a Voice: struggles of South Asian women has just been republished, forty years later. Why did you write the book in 1978 and why is it relevant today? Back in the 70s like many other community activists and South Asian
Humanitarian volunteers detained in Lesvos must be released
Meena Masood, Seán Binder’s partner and member of #FreeHumanitarians, calls for solidarity and support for the three humanitarians arrested and detained in Greece since August. On 20 October, protests took place in Dublin, Berlin, London, Boston and Stockholm in support of three humanitarian volunteers currently detained in Greece. Seán Binder (24), Sarah Mardini (23) and
Calendar of racism and resistance (25 October – 8 November)
Asylum and migration 24 October: In northern Bosnia, around 250 people protesting at the closure of the EU Maljevac crossing at the Croatian border are dispersed with tear gas. (Are You Syrious, 24 October 2018) 25 October: Home secretary Sajid Javid apologises to Afghan and Gurkha immigrants who were unlawfully required to take DNA tests
Deportation Disks: A Public Hearing
Two day free public hearing showing sonic portraits alongside a wall of texts; extracts from UK legal and policy frameworks looking at concepts of ‘coming home’ or ‘taking back’ from two individuals deported to Jamaica from the UK. Thursday 15 November – Friday 16 November 2018, 9am-9pm Bartlett School of Architecture, 22 Gordon Street WC1H0QB (first floor landing). The
Calendar of racism and resistance (10 – 24 October 2018)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Anti-fascism and the far Right 10 October: The army launches an investigation after Tommy Robinson posts a photograph and video footage of himself at Watford Gap motorway services surrounded by young uniformed squaddies who chant his name. (Express,
Language and vulnerability: interpreting in Immigration Removal Centres
Aisha Maniar discusses Stephen Shaw’s follow-up report on the detention of vulnerable people from the perspective of interpreting facilities for detainees. The United Kingdom has one of the largest immigration detention estates in Europe. While detention is punitive in nature, the measure itself is administrative and not criminal. In 2017, for the non-offence of not holding a British passport, 27,331