July – 5th August 2025 We tend to think of all the great social movements in history as driven by progressive values – ...

22nd July – 5th August 2025 We tend to think of all the great social movements in history as driven by progressive values – anti-racist and for civil rights, for instance. But what do we do when a ...

This major report on policing in Britain demonstrates how a whole underclass of black people, situated in the most deprived areas of the inner city, have been marked out for a particular form of ...

Deaths in police, prison and psychiatric custody since 1978. We list below those deaths of black and minority ethnic individuals which have taken place in prison, police or hospital custody and which ...

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Citizenship-stripping powers introduced since 2002 have enshrined a ‘second-class citizenship’ in the UK, mainly affecting British Muslims, says a new report from the Institute of Race Relations.

Asylum and Migration statistics Introduction Migration has become one of the defining issues of our time, as rich countries including the UK have developed and refined racialised and class-based ...

The hostile official reception for asylum seekers crossing the Channel is extended to recognised refugees in the Nationality and Borders Bill, which expands the discredited policies of exclusion, ...

This report features the cases of 509 people from BME, asylum seeker and migrant communities who have died in custody, in suspicious circumstances, between 1991 and September 2014. On average, this is ...

The IRR takes a fresh look at the PRU-to-prison pipeline showing how exclusion from mainstream school has coincided with systematic ‘educational enclosure’.

Military-style solutions won’t solve humanitarian problems, argues our new report that details the nearly 300 border-related deaths in and around the English Channel since 1999. Deadly Crossings and ...

At the heart of this book is an examination of xeno-racism - a non-colour coded form of institutionalised racism - where migrants who do not assimilate, or are believed to be incapable of assimilation ...