Press Releases
Europe’s pariah state? the future of human rights in Britain
May 2, 2013 — press-release
This week, we publish a briefing paper on the future of human rights in Britain, written by the IRR’s vice-chair, Frances Webber.
Racial violence since the death of Stephen Lawrence
April 18, 2013 — press-release
As the twentieth anniversary of the murder of Stephen Lawrence approaches, the IRR examines racial violence since his death in 1993.
State intelligence and the European far Right
April 4, 2013 — press-release
Can European security services and law enforcement agencies be entrusted with policing the far Right?
Cuts, crime and racialisation
April 4, 2013 — press-release
In the April 2013 issue of Race & Class leading UK thinkers, in a special section on Cuts, crime and racialisation, examine how neoliberalism, at a time of austerity, changes the very nature of racism and criminal justice.
Facing up to racial violence
February 14, 2013 — press-release
The IRR publishes a report today on how racial violence is shaping the UK.
The 1949 Causeway Green ‘riots’ reassessed
January 15, 2013 — press-release
Kevin Searle’s ‘“Mixing of the unmixables”: the 1949 Causeway Green “riots” in Birmingham’ examines a hitherto unknown landmark in British race relations which throws into question standard accounts of postwar immigration.
Radicalism and radicalisation
September 27, 2012 — press-release
In the latest issue of Race & Class, Arun Kundnani analyses the concept of Muslim radicalisation now central in the counter-terrorism industry while Ashley Lavelle charts Eldridge Cleaver’s journey from radical ‘Soul on Ice’ to renegade ‘Soul for Hire’.
The new geographies of racism: Peterborough
July 30, 2012 — press-release
Research published today by the Institute of Race Relations shows that recently arrived migrant workers are vulnerable to exploitation and xenophobic attacks.
Four days in August
June 22, 2012 — press-release
In the latest issue of Race & Class, the lead article ‘Four days in August: the UK riots’ examines reports and inquiries conducted in the aftermath of last summer’s disturbances.
The truth about far-right violence
June 12, 2012 — press-release
A shocking new report documents patterns of far-right violence across Europe.