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Calendar of racism and resistance (10 – 23 June 2016)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and immigration 5 June: Doctors in Switzerland criticise the government’s physical examinations of young unaccompanied asylum seekers to determine their age. The tests involve, in addition to checks for bone and tooth age, young boys and girls

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Calendar of racism and resistance (27 May – 9 June 2016)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 17 May: The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration launches a survey to gauge views on the work of the Inspectorate, which is open until Monday 27 June 2016. Take part in the survey here.

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Calendar of racism and resistance (6 – 26 May 2016)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 9 May: A 26-year-old Syrian refugee is shot in the kidney and wounded by Slovakian border guards on the border between Slovakia and Hungary, near the town of Velky Meder. The woman is in a

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Comment

A call to action: supporting young people with precarious citizenship

An important conference on securing justice for young people with precarious citizenship is taking place in London on 1 June, organised by the Migrant and Refugee Children’s Legal Unit at Islington Law Centre in conjunction with Birkbeck College. What is precarious citizenship? Significant numbers of young people who are settled in the UK (estimated conservatively at

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Calendar of racism and resistance (22 April – 5 May 2016)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 20 April: The Home Office announces that a new process for resettling unaccompanied asylum seeking children will commence in July. (Guardian, 21 April 2016) 21 April: The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman publishes: Independent investigation into

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Calendar of racism and resistance (8 – 21 April 2016)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 8 April: A 7-year-old Afghan boy is rescued from the back of a lorry on the M1 with fourteen other migrants after sending an SOS text message saying that he was having difficulty breathing. (BBC

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Anti-Semitism – thought or deed?

Significantly, but without much fanfare, an expanded definition of anti-Semitism entered the UK’s policy arena this April.  An article by Eric Pickles, former secretary of state for communities and local government, chair of the Conservative Friends of Israel and, since September 2015, UK special envoy for post-Holocaust issues, entitled ‘A definition of antisemitism’ introduced the

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Calendar of racism and resistance (25 March – 7 April 2016)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 8 March: Caritas Europa publishes: Migrants and refugees have rights! Impact of EU policies on accessing protection. Download the report here. 15 March: Refugee Rights publishes a report: The Long Wait: Filling the data gaps

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Interpreting services within immigration removal centres

Demonstration at Yarl's Wood in March 2016 (© Aisha Maniar)

The lack of trained interpreters inside immigration detention exacerbates fear, mistrust and depression and has contributed to a number of deaths. The Stephen Shaw Review into the Welfare in Detention of Vulnerable Persons in Britain’s immigration detention estate, published in January 2016, is the latest in a long line of reports that make recommendations to

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