A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 3 March: Home Secretary Theresa May wins the right to deport refused asylum seekers to Afghanistan after the Court of Appeal overturns an injunction imposed following concerns that the country was too dangerous. (Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
A day of education, information and discussion leading to action through encouragement of grassroots campaigns. Saturday 9 April 2016, 10.30-5.30pm Quaker Meeting House, 10 James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW Related links See event on Facebook here
Below we reproduce a speech at the eleventh annual Huntley Conference on the IRR’s Black History Collection and the importance of archives in signposting the past and future. Today I want to talk to you about an item from the Black History Collection, which is held at the Institute of Race Relations. But before I get
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum 25 February: Home Office statistics reveal that the number of unaccompanied asylum seeking children has increased by over 50 per cent in the last year, with 3,043 children seeking asylum in 2015, compared with 1,945 in 2014.
A day conference focused on the sites of confinement regarding migration, race, racism and physical, social and spatial bordering control. Thursday 17 March 2016, 9-6pm Campus Luigi Einaudi, University of Turin, Lungo Dora Siena 100/A-10154, Turin, Italy Speakers include: Antigone Association Monish Bhatia Victoria Canning Valeria Ferraris Evgenia Iliadou Simone Santorso Alvise Sbraccia No Borders
Paul Polansky, author and Romani rights activist, remembers Lubomir Zubak who died on 23 December 2015. Lubomir Zubak, noted Romani rights activist in the Czech Republic in the 1990s, was the first to publicly call for the removal of the pig farm built over the WWII Roma concentration camp at Lety. His one-man demonstration carrying
An IRR discussion paper on the Housing and Planning and Immigration Bills 2015-16. The Housing and Planning and Immigration Bills, currently going through parliament, contain measures which are central to the Conservatives’ stated belief in cohesive ‘One Nation’ government. In a discussion paper published by the IRR today, criminologist Dr Jon Burnett argues that the
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 8 February: Protests occur across Greece against the construction of registration and screening centres, or hotspots, for migrants. In Kos, after three days of protests, residents blockade an army camp earmarked for conversion into a migrant
John Grayson reveals the spread of corporate involvement in the provision of asylum housing in the UK and northern Europe, and how outsourcing and private companies are tarnishing Europe’s ‘welcome’ to refugees. A couple of weeks ago I was talking to two families in G4S housing[1] in Sheffield who arrived in the UK in September last
Regular monthly demonstration at Campsfield House detention entre in Oxfordshire. Saturday 27 February 2016, 12-2pm Campsfield House, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxfordshire OX5 1RE Related links Campaign to Close Campsfield
