Government policy
Recent Publications
May 8, 2013
Europe’s pariah state? the future of human rights in Britain
A report on the future of human rights in Britain.
April 4, 2013
Briefing Paper no. 6
State intelligence agencies and the far Right: A review of developments in Germany, Hungary and Austria examines the security services’ approach to the far Right and finds that far from clamping down on growing fascism, some of the tactics of security services are enhancing conditions for its growth.
April 4, 2013
Race & Class, April 2013
The April 2013 issue of Race & Class contains a special section on Cuts, crime and racialisation, which examines how neoliberalism, at a time of austerity, changes the very nature of racism and criminal justice.
January 15, 2013
Race & Class, January 2013
In the January 2013 issue of Race & Class, A. Sivanandan analyses the rise of neoliberalism in the UK, arguing that the market state no longer serves the nation, but transnational capital.
June 15, 2012
Pedlars of Hate: the violent impact of the European far Right
Brings together over 100 cases, mostly from EU countries, but also Switzerland and Norway, which documents patterns of violence, from the peddling of hate online and the drawing up of lists of ‘national traitors’, to violence, arson and murder on the streets, and the stockpiling of weapons in preparation for ‘race war’.
January 5, 2012
Race & Class, January 2012
The January 2012 issue of Race & Class contains two key articles which address pressing issues.
October 17, 2010
Driven to desperate measures 2006-2010
A report cataloguing the deaths of the 77 asylum seekers and migrants who have died either in the UK or attempting to reach the UK from 2006-2010.
July 6, 2010
Race & Class, July 2010
The July 2010 edition of the journal Race & Class is a special issue: 'Canada: colonial amnesia and the legacy of empire' guest edited by David Austin, Sean Mills and Scott Rutherford.
February 11, 2010
Briefing Paper No. 1
The Swiss referendum on minarets: background and aftermath provides comprehensive documentation of the Swiss referendum on 29 November 2009 which was was backed by a strong majority as it became the first country in Europe to vote to curb the religious practices of Muslims, banning the construction of minarets on mosques.
July 1, 2008
Race & Class, July 2008
The July 2008 edition of the journal Race & Class leads with Hilary and Steven Rose's extended argument for an academic boycott of Israel, features Matt Carr's study of the US assault on Fallujah and Jerry Harris' analysis of US imperialism after the defeat in Iraq.
May 8, 2008
Integration, Islamophobia and civil rights in Europe
New research finds that, contrary to public perception, the challenge to multiculturalism in Europe comes not from Muslim communities' unwillingness to integrate but from Islamophobia.
April 17, 2008
Race & Class, April 2008
The April 2008 edition of the journal Race & Class leads with Felipe Arocena's analysis of multiculturalism in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru, and features two studies of being black in Australia: one by David McNeill on Australian football and the other by Val Colic-Peisker and Farida Tilbury.
June 1, 2007
The End of Tolerance: racism in 21st century Britain
Arun Kundnani looks behind the media hysteria to show how multicultural Britain is under attack by government policies and vitriolic press campaigns that play upon fear and encourage racism.
September 21, 2006
Driven to desperate measures 1989-2006
The IRR has catalogued a roll call of death of the 221 asylum seekers and migrants who have died either in the UK or attempting to reach the UK in the past seventeen years.
February 21, 2006
European Race Bulletin no.54
'France inflamed: riots and reactions' examines the riots in the deprived French banlieues that took place in October and November 2005 that had reverberations across the EU. And, once again, questions of integration and segregation are being discussed in ways that place security rather than justice at the centre of that debate.
April 11, 2005
The deportation machine: Europe, asylum and human rights
Citing over 200 detailed case studies, The deportation machine: Europe, asylum and human rights shows how opportunist political campaigning puts the lives of asylum seekers at risk.
March 10, 2004
European Race Bulletin no. 47
'Anti-terrorism and human rights' is essential reading for all those concerned to find out more about the international approach to combating terror and how it is influencing EU and British counter-terrorism measures.
August 28, 2003
Reclaim people’s security
From national security to global security: counter-terrorism in Asia and Europe. Published by the Institute of Race Relations along with the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam.
April 1, 2002
Racism: the hidden cost of September 11
A special investigation into how anti-terrorist laws across Europe are giving rise to a new wave of popular racism.
October 1, 2001
The three faces of British racism
A wide-ranging report exposing racism in government policy, institutions and popular culture.
March 7, 2001
Counting the cost
An IRR report on how institutions have responded to incidents of racial violence.
July 1, 1997
Europe: the wages of racism
This major report lays bare the measures and mechanisms which turn migrants into 'illegals', and asylum-seekers into forced labour.
January 1, 1993
Community care: the black experience
The first study to ask black groups for their experiences and opinions on community care.