IRR News stories

G4S and asylum seekers' housing
Below we reproduce a letter signed by academics in the Yorkshire region expressing concerns over the awarding of a housing contract to a private company.
2 February 2012 (1042 words)

No Borders Convergence
London No Borders, Goldsmiths students and other groups are organising a convergence in London between 13 and 18 February.
2 February 2012 (316 words)

Victory for campaign against daft deportation
A respected academic has won his fight against deportation on the ground that his bank balance fell below £800.
26 January 2012 (592 words)

Two deaths in three weeks in Spain's notorious detention centres
Allegations of institutional neglect surround the deaths of two migrants within weeks of a report calling for the centres' closure.
18 January 2012 (557 words)

96 murders since Stephen Lawrence's
The convictions of Gary Dobson and David Norris will be bitter-sweet vindication for the family of Stephen Lawrence who have fought an 18-year campaign for justice.
5 January 2012 (963 words)

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Forthcoming events

NACCOM conference
The annual conference of NACCOM which works with destitute asylum seekers.
4 February 2012 (74 words)

From reaction to revolution
A meeting to audit human rights violations and victories over the last ten years.
5 February 2012 (81 words)

Solidarity demo for hunger strikers in the Ukraine
Demonstration in support of 58 Somali refugees on hunger striker in Lutsk Detention Centre, Ukraine.
6 February 2012 (63 words)

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News from other sources

independent
John Terry stripped of captaincy
The FA has announced that John Terry will be stripped of his England captaincy until after his court trial for allegedly racially abusing Anton Ferdinand.
3 February 2012

bbc news
Review of deaths in custody
The IPCC has announced that it will review the way it deals with the deaths of people under restraint while in police custody, following the revelation that those who die without being formally arrested are not included in official figures.
3 February 2012

bbc news
Council spends £4.8 million on Dale Farm eviction
Basildon Council has spent £4.8 million in policing and legal fees in their eviction of Traveller families from the Dale Farm site in Essex.
3 February 2012

guardian
Minister's selective immigration policy criticised
Immigration minister Damian Green's new policy in which only the wealthy will be allowed to marry from abroad has been criticised by the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants.
2 February 2012

bbc news
Protestors against Gypsy site to be evicted
Meriden councillors have voted to evict members of Residents Against Inappropriate Development, a group of local people who set up their own camp in protest at a Gypsy site.
2 February 2012

bbc news
Anti-Semitic crime rates highest in Manchester
Almost half of the 586 anti-Semitic crimes reported in the UK in 2011 took place in Greater Manchester, according to figures from the Community Security Trust.
2 February 2012

guardian
BNP emails reveal links to US extremists
The hacking group Anonymous has released emails that link the BNP to US white nationalist political groups after infiltrating the website of American Third Position.
1 February 2012

guardian
Stephen Lawrence killers' not to be referred to Court of Appeal
The sentencing of Gary Dobson and David Norris will not be referred to the court of appeal to decide whether it was unduly lenient after it was reviewed by the Attorney General.
1 February 2012

guardian
'Excited delirium' found as cause of death of Jacob Michael
A Home Office pathologist has found that Jacob Michael who died after being restrained by up to 11 police officers who also used CS spray, died from 'excited delirium'. He also suffered broken ribs and a torn liver.
1 February 2012

leicester mercury
Man injured in racist attack
A 27-year-old man from Africa has been left with facial injuries after being approached by two men that racially abused and assaulted him in Beaumont Leys, Leicester.
1 February 2012

Race & Class

January 2012 issue

Race & Class is the IRR's quarterly journal on racism, empire and globalisation. In the January 2012 issue, William Robinson asks if the economic crisis will lead to a 21st century fascism.

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European Race Audit

Briefing Paper no. 5

The IRR's European Race Audit (ERA) is now publishing regular free online briefing papers which are available as part of subscriptions to the IRR News Service. It documents the erosion of human rights as a result of asylum and immigration law and civil liberties and as a result of the war on terror. The European Race Audit was launched in 1991 and its huge archive - of over sixty Bulletins on pan-European race and refugee issues - is an invaluable source of information for students, researchers and campaigners.
1 September 2011

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Joint enterprise, racism and BME communities
An interview with Gloria Morrison, Campaign Coordinator of JENGbA (Joint Enterprise - Not Guilty by Association) which is a prisoners' support group made up of the friends and families of people convicted under the doctrine of joint enterprise.
1 February 2012 (2725 words)

Gill Butler 1942-2012
By Jon Burnett
Remembering a unique campaigner for asylum and human rights.
26 January 2012 (326 words)

Asians in Britain
A new learning resource, Asians in Britain[1] produced by the British Library[2], explores the contribution that South Asians have made to Britain's cultural, social and economic life.
26 January 2012 (528 words)

Abu Qatada decision causes alarm - to rights activists
By Frances Webber
As the prime minister derides the European Court of Human Rights as a 'small claims court', it isn't just the anti-human rights brigade who are worried by the its recent judgment.
26 January 2012 (815 words)

The international language of football
By Jenny Bourne
Reading of the allegations of racism in football, it struck me as the more sad, that, over the years, football has been for me the great leveller, the international language which speaks across countries, class and gender.
18 January 2012 (549 words)

Total disaster
By Jon Burnett
Bernard Hogan-Howe's recent talk on 'total policing' at the LSE didn't go down too well.
18 January 2012 (698 words)

Where detention is the norm
A report on the UK Border Agency's management of foreign national offenders bears little reaction to the press' coverage.
18 January 2012 (838 words)

Unsafe return
A new report on returns to the DRC challenges the government's assertion that refused asylum seekers are not at risk.
12 January 2012 (642 words)

Twit or tweet
By Jenny Bourne
The furore about Diane Abbott's tweet reveals a wilful inability to distinguish between state racism and personal prejudice.
11 January 2012 (378 words)

Germany's Stephen Lawrence
By Eddie Bruce-Jones
How can lessons from the Lawrence case be applied to that of Oury Jalloh, who was burned to death in a German police cell seven years ago?
11 January 2012 (1801 words)

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From the archive

Sri Lanka: racism and the politics of underdevelopment
By A. Sivanandan
In 1984, the Institute of Race Relations published this penetrating historical analysis of anti-Tamil racism in Sri Lanka. (pdf file, 2.0Mb)
From: Race & Class, Vol. 26, no.1 (1984)