Violence and harassment
Recent Publications
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.
July 30, 2012
New geographies of racism: Peterborough
A report focusing on racial violence in Peterborough, where the city’s migrant workers have been demonised and vilified by the tabloids in recent years.
November 15, 2011
New geographies of racism: Stoke-on-Trent
A report focusing on racial violence in Stoke-on-Trent, which has been devastated by deindustrialisation, and where the proportion of the city’s Black and Minority Ethnic population has doubled in two decades.
June 30, 2011
New geographies of racism: Plymouth
A report focusing on racial violence in Plymouth which is based on detailed research into the history and political economy of the city.
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.
June 1, 2010
Racial violence: the buried issue
A report on dangerously high levels of racial violence in the UK – a violence which is spreading into new areas.
September 10, 2009
European Race Bulletin no. 68
The Summer 2009 issue of the European Race Bulletin comprises detailed summaries on recent elections across Europe and reports on two recent racist murders in Germany and Malta.
April 1, 2009
Race & Class, April 2009
The April 2009 edition of the journal Race & Class leads with Jerry Harris and Carl Davidson's charting of the new contours of power in Obama's America, and features a series of articles on asylum and multiculturalism in Sweden.
October 11, 2006
European Race Bulletin no.57
Islamophobia, xenophobia and the climate of hate documents examples of populist campaigns against mosques, Muslim meeting places and even burial places in Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands. A section on 'national security, anti-terrorist measures and civil rights' draws attention to the rise of racial and religious profiling within criminal justice systems.
July 1, 2004
The politics of fear: civil society and the security state
The 'war on terror', initiated by the US, taken up by its junior partners and promulgated across the globe, is having a seismic impact on the structures and institutions of civil society. In the process, it is remoulding, to an unprecedented degree, the conceptions of peace, liberty and security in western developed societies.
October 1, 2002
Race & Class, October 2002
The US military in the era of globalisation, by Jerry Harris
March 7, 2001
Counting the cost
An IRR report on how institutions have responded to incidents of racial violence.
January 1, 1997
When memory dies
A three-generational novel of a Sri Lankan family's search for coherence and continuity in a country broken by colonial occupation and riven by ethnic wars.