Press releases
Campaigners for an academic boycott of Israel analyse Europe's complicity
In the latest issue of the IRR's journal Race & Class, Hilary Rose and Steven Rose ask why and how a small Middle Eastern country has successfully positioned itself as 'European', even though it is in breach of Europe's humanitarian conventions and condemned by many UN resolutions.
3 July 2008 (264 words)
What next for Europe's boat people?
As EU leaders and their North African counterparts host a series of immigration summits, the European Race Bulletin seeks to establish what is really going on behind the scenes.
12 July 2006 (368 words)
Deporting Muslim clerics: lessons from Europe
The proposal, to deport Muslim clerics whose words foment violence or glorify terrorism (as indicated by Blair) is already being applied in other European countries. A report by the Institute of Race Relations on 'the Integration Debate' in Europe shows how deportations for 'speech crimes' has set back community relations and led to serious human rights violations.
25 August 2005 (412 words)
Election deportation targets put lives at risk
In the run-up to the election, the Conservative Party is proposing to remove all asylum seekers who exceed an annual quota of 20,000, whether or not their claims are valid. The Labour government has already set a target to deport more people each month than make new claims for asylum that go on to be rejected. Both policies are part of a 'target culture' which, when applied to asylum seekers, results in a clear and shameful pattern of human rights violations, according to a new report by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR).
11 April 2005 (1221 words)
Marking Black History
To mark Black History Month, the Institute of Race Relations has published a Black History section - including personal memoirs of Paul Robeson, W.E.B. Du Bois and Ed Scobie.
6 October 2004 (186 words)
Death trap: the human cost of the war on asylum
The IRR publishes today a roll call of death of the 180 asylum seekers and undocumented migrants who have died either in the UK or attempting to reach the UK in the past fifteen years.
4 October 2004 (580 words)
New study highlights discrimination in use of anti-terror laws
The Institute of Race Relations publishes today a catalogue that details how hundreds of Muslims have been arrested under terrorism powers before being released without charge; how the special powers granted by parliament to tackle terrorism are being deployed in other spheres, such as in routine criminal investigations or in the policing of immigration; how the media have become 'embedded' in a process that leads to the stigmatisation of Muslims as terrorists.
2 September 2004 (1554 words)
Failing the vulnerable: the death of ten asylum seekers and other foreign nationals in UK detention
The self-inflicted death of a Ukrainian asylum seeker at Harmondsworth removal centre on 19 July would have gone unnoticed if it had not been for the subsequent eruption of large-scale violence forcing the closure of the centre and the dispersal of detainees to other detention centres and prisons.
26 July 2004 (750 words)
The other asylum statistics
Governments count the numbers coming in. But who counts the numbers that do not make it?
29 July 2003 (622 words)
No appeasement for the extreme-Right
Stunning successes for European extreme-Right and anti-immigrant parties, particularly in France and the Netherlands, have shocked mainstream political parties and led to a vigorous debate about what should be done.
14 August 2002 (346 words)
IRR expresses concern over excessive sentencing of Bradford rioters
The sentencing policy of the Bradford riot trials is meant to discipline an entire community, rather than reflect the severity of each individual's actions.
5 July 2002 (719 words)
The dispersal of xenophobia - a new report from the IRR
According to research by the Institute of Race Relations' European Race Audit the policy of dispersing asylum seekers, now being introduced into the UK and Ireland, but already practised in other European countries for some years, effectively means the dispersal of xenophobia.
16 August 2000 (171 words)