IRR: UK: racism and the state 2007 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:15:12 +0100 Message-Id: WEBWATCH The Scottish Refugee Council has published research carried out by the Glasgow Centre for the Child and Society: 'This is a good place to live and think about the future...The needs and experiences of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Scotland'. Download the executive summary at: http://www.scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk/pub/UASC_Exec_Summary (pdf file, 216kb) The House of Lords and House of Commons Joint Committee on Human Rights has published: 'The Treatment of Asylum Seekers: Tenth Report of Session 2006-07 Volume I - Report and formal minutes'. Download at: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt200607/jtselect/jtrights/81/81i.pdf (pdf file, 752kb) The House of Lords and House of Commons Joint Committee on Human Rights has published: 'The Treatment of Asylum Seekers: Tenth Report of Session 2006-07 Volume II - Oral and written evidence'. Download at: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt200607/jtselect/jtrights/81/81ii.pdf (pdf file, 3.4mb) The House of Lords and House of Commons Joint Committee on Human Rights has published: 'Legislative Scrutiny: Fourth Progress Report Eleventh Report of Session 2006-07'. Download at: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/jt200607/jtselect/jtrights/83/83.pdf (pdf file, 560kb) The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) has published research conducted by the Ipsos MORI Social Research Institute: 'Race relations 2006: a research study'. Download at: http://www.cre.gov.uk/downloads/racerelations2006final.pdf (pdf file, 456kb) The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) has published research conducted by the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr): 'The reception and integration of new migrant communities'. Download at: http://www.cre.gov.uk/downloads/newmigrantcommunitiesresearch.pdf (pdf file, 737kb) The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) has published its second factfile: 'Ethnic Minorities In Great Britain'. Download at: http://www.cre.gov.uk/downloads/factfile02_ethnic_minorities.pdf (pdf file, 152kb) Freedom of Information Act 2000 disclosures Under the Freedom of Information Act the Home Office has released information on: 'A month-by-month breakdown of the numbers of prisoner-on-prisoner assaults recorded at HMP and YOI Reading during the past 12 months'. View the information at: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/about-us/freedom-of-information/released-information/foi-archive-offender-management/5826-prisoner-assaults-hmp-yoi?view=Standard&pubID=456047 p u b l i c a t i o n u n i t e d k i n g d o m - - > >> UK: racism and the state 2007 > By Institute of Race Relations In this special edition of Race & Class, leading black and anti-racist activists, campaigners and scholars chart the new parameters of state racism in the UK today. On 16 September 2006, the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) held a unqiue conference in London on 'Racism, Liberty and the War on Terror', attended by over 250 participants, including human rights activists, community workers, lawyers, students, radical academics and solidarity groups. The April 2007 edition of the IRR journal Race & Class features extracts from the pioneering conference, including speeches and talks by Gareth Peirce, A. Sivanandan, Salma Yaqoob, Tony Bunyan, David Rose, Victoria Brittain and Herman Ouseley. Together with a range of other contributors from community organisations around the UK, they dissect the recent media attacks on multiculturalism and document the impact of the 'war on terror', both on local communities and internationally. Sectarianism and racism in Northern Ireland Also in this edition of Race & Class, Robbie McVeigh and Bill Rolston present a striking new analysis of the sectarianism and racism that has emerged in Northern Ireland in the shadow of the Good Friday Agreement. They debunk the gathering support for the notion that Northern Ireland is somehow 'post-sectarian' - finding instead a state formation that hides its incapacity to address rising racism and sectarianism under the fig leaf of 'good relations'. Integrationism: the politics of anti-Muslim racism Arun Kundnani shows how cultural diversity has been attacked vigorously by liberals and by those on the centre left, especially since 2001. The new conventional wisdom is that a national story of Britishness must be promoted in order to bind the nation together around a set of core values, to which minorities must assimilate. This integrationism draws on a wider anti-Muslim political culture associated with the 'war on terror', in which the focus is on 'self-segregation', alien values and forced assimilation, rather than on institutional racism. Bristol: 'civilising' the inner city Matt Clement describes how the legacy of Bristol's leading role in the slave trade, the institutional racism that led to the St Paul's riot in 1980 and, most recently, the domestic Islamophobia accompanying the 'war on terror' have left a legacy of distrust in the city's inner districts, which current plans for urban regeneration fail to address. Driven to despair: asylum deaths in the UK Harmit Athwal and Jenny Bourne examine the deaths of over 200 asylum seekers and undocumented migrants, who have lost their lives trying to reach the UK, or in work related accidents, as result of racial attacks and, most often, as a result of self-harm, especially in detention centres. ---- FOOTNOTE Plus reviews. A5, 120pp., ISBN 1-4129-4545-3. Race & Class, Vol. 48, no. 4, April-June 2007. The Institute of Race Relations is precluded from expressing a corporate view: any opinions expressed are therefore those of the authors. IRR is not responsible for the content of external websites. Inclusion of a link does not constitute an endorsement. Please contact us (/contact/index.html) if you come across a broken link. > RELATED LINKS Race & Class: a journal on racism, empire and globalisation (http://www.irr.org.uk/publication/raceandclass) IRR is not responsible for the content of external websites. 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