Review

Paris: still on the streets

The abject failure of French President Macron to carry out his promise to get refugees ‘off the streets, out of the woods’ by the end of 2017 is highlighted in the latest report by Refugee Rights Europe (RRE).  Still on the Streets: Documenting the situation for refugees and displaced people in Paris, France, presents statistical

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News

Calendar of racism and resistance (6 – 19 April 2018)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 5 April: Elder Rahimi solicitors publish: Systemic Delays in the Processing of the Claims for Asylum Made in the UK by Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC), download it here. 5 April: Asylum charities in Liverpool

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Review

Prevent in the NHS: safeguarding or surveillance?

A new and important report by Warwick University investigates counterterrorism in the NHS, revealing how lines are blurred between safeguarding and surveillance, security risk and social care and mental health and radicalisation. Recently, a domestic worker died as she was too afraid to see a doctor out of fear that her immigration status would be

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Comment

The ‘Windrush generation’ retreat and the hostile environment

The ‘Windrush generation’ of long-resident, elderly Commonwealth citizens has won a moral victory, with an apology from home secretary Amber Rudd and her predecessor, Theresa May, the architect of the ‘hostile environment’ policies which saw many of them dismissed from long-held jobs, denied housing and medical treatment, and threatened with deportation, for want of proof

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Interview

Fighting the hostile environment: interview with Bethan Lant of Praxis

The shameful treatment of elderly Commonwealth citizens treated as illegal immigrants was brought to public attention by the Guardian’s report in March on the refusal of NHS cancer treatment to 63-year-old Londoner Albert Thompson. On 28 March, Frances Webber and Jessica Perera of IRR News went to visit Bethan Lant of Praxis, the organisation helping him,

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Our Lives Our Future

Keynote presentation by Stafford Scott, a veteran activist and community elder and the co-ordinator of Tottenham Rights. Friday 20 April 2018, 7-9pm North London Community House, Moorefield Road, Tottenham, London N17 6PY Related links Tottenham Rights The Monitoring Group Download a flyer here  

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Press Release

Are the experts on radicalisation getting it wrong?

What, asks the April issue of Race & Class, has happened in policy and academia to the concept of ‘radicalisation’ that Arun Kundnani  analysed in a pathbreaking piece, ‘Radicalisation: the journey of a concept’, some six years ago? In a far-reaching survey of published articles and commissioned government research over the last years, covering the

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