Arun Kundnani

Kundnani icily relates the Kafkaesque absurdities of rejected asylum cases, as well as case studies of biased policing and grossly inflammatory statements by politicians. His sarcasm is finely honed. - Guardian

Arun Kundnani provides a detailed and well-researched account of the rise of anti-Muslim racism in Britain. Kundnani's chilling conclusion is that racism has become integral to British political discourse, with routine demonisation of refugees, immigrants and Muslims. - Ziauddin Sardar, New Statesman books of the year

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Unreasonable suspicion
By Arun Kundnani
With the publication last week of The review of policing by Ronnie Flanagan, the Chief Inspector of Constabulary, the government is proposing another extension of stop and search powers beyond the requirement of 'reasonable suspicion'.
13 February 2008 (660 words)

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Rights not rhetoric
By Arun Kundnani
Politicians talk tough on immigration but fail to recognise Britain's underlying demand for a highly exploitable workforce.
15 November 2007 (412 words)

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How liberals lost their anti-racism
By Arun Kundnani
Recent books by Nick Cohen and Andrew Anthony point to a new hard-nosed liberalism which targets British Muslims.
3 October 2007 (1099 words)

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Cant on cohesion
By Arun Kundnani
Communities minister Ruth Kelly today launches a Commission on Integration and Cohesion whilst calling for an 'honest debate' on multiculturalism. But the government's whole approach to the issue relies on a mis-use of concepts and history.
24 August 2006 (954 words)

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How the BNP entered the political mainstream
By Arun Kundnani
Recently published research gives us more data on where support for the British National Party comes from. But, in common with most analysts, it downplays the most important factor in the BNP's rise: the legitimacy given to the party's views by mainstream politicians and even liberal commentators.
4 May 2006 (1234 words)

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Criminalising dissent in the 'war on terror'
By Arun Kundnani
The new crime of 'glorifying' terrorism, recently introduced under the Terrorism Act 2006, will lead to the suppression of legitimate debate on the causes of terror.
2 May 2006 (1899 words)

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Bradford riots
An important new drama by Neil Biswas, to be broadcast on Channel 4 next week, shows how the lives of members of the Pakistani community of Mannigham were defined and destroyed by the Bradford riots of July 2001.
26 April 2006 (452 words)

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Racial profiling and anti-terror stop and search
By Arun Kundnani
Amid growing public concern about stop and search powers under terror laws and the challenge by Liberty in the High Court over their misuse, Arun Kundnani examines some of the key issues in the debate.
31 January 2006 (1971 words)

London becomes BNP heartland
New research has found that support for the British National Party is higher in London than any other part of the UK, with 23 per cent of Londoners saying they would consider voting for the far-Right party.
20 October 2005 (772 words)

New report documents the toll of destitution faced by Eritrean asylum seekers
Asylum seekers from the Horn of Africa have been the focus of recent press scare-mongering after three of the suspects in the attempted bombings in London on 21 July were revealed to be refugees from Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia. Now a new report, available to download from IRR News, sheds light on the reality of Eritrea and its refugees.
30 August 2005 (583 words)

Fate of Sukula family in the hands of Bolton Council after lost appeal
Pressure is mounting on Bolton Council, from national and local organisations, not to force an asylum-seeking family into homelessness and take their children into care under new government measures.
11 August 2005 (997 words)

Asylum-seeking children face being separated from their parents and placed in care under new powers
A family in Bolton, whose campaign to stay in Britain has won strong local support, is one of the first to face new powers to separate asylum-seeking children from their parents.
28 July 2005 (631 words)

Mass hunger strike against deportations to Zimbabwe
With the UK government issuing strong condemnations of Robert Mugabe, ninety-seven Zimbabwean asylum seekers, in detention centres across England, have gone on hunger strike to protest against the increasing number of deportations to Harare.
23 June 2005 (762 words)

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ID cards: implications for Black, Minority Ethnic, migrant and refugee communities
By Arun Kundnani
The Identity Cards Bill, introduced on 25 May 2005, is aimed at enabling the policing of a harder boundary of entitlement between British citizens and foreigners. The result will be the creation of a new under-class of those who are 'sans plastique'.
26 May 2005 (1761 words)

Primary school children rally to save their friends from deportation
St John's RC Primary School, Rochdale, is to hold a rally today as part of its campaign to prevent the deportation of seven asylum-seeking children and their families.
26 May 2005 (370 words)

15-year-old Daniel launches anti-deportation campaign
Daniel Sukula wrote to IRR News earlier this year to tell us of his fears of being deported to Congo. Now he asks readers to support his anti-deportation campaign.
21 April 2005 (598 words)

National declaration against deportations of school students launched
Campaigners are calling for teachers, students and others in education to support a national declaration against the deportation of children and young people in schools and colleges.
21 April 2005 (886 words)

Support grows for detentions inquiry as teenager alleges mistreatment
14-year-old Sebrin Thaha, who was detained with her mother and younger sister by immigration authorities a month ago, claims that she was mistreated by escort officers during her deportation last week.
22 March 2005 (587 words)

Funeral for Omid Jamil Ali
In November last year, the family of a Kurdish migrant, who died trying to enter Britain in 2001, were finally able to bury their son in northern Iraq, after his body was released from a Kent mortuary. IRR News has now received pictures of the funeral.
2 March 2005 (495 words)

Plymouth Kurd family detained and split up by immigration authorities
The two children of Ruir Thaha have been taken into care after first being detained with their mother and then separated from her after she twice attempted suicide over the weekend.
28 February 2005 (405 words)

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