Key details Date: Thursday 5 September 2024 Time: 5-7pm Location: Pelican House, 144 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, E1 5QJ Summary Following a successful workshop for caseworkers in May, we are running a second session exploring challenges and strategies for frontline migration support services in addressing issues related to gender and sexuality within casework spaces. […]
Immigration raids are a fear mechanism. They are a form of racist State intimidation and divide racialised communities. Our new Hostile Office report- Immigration Raids: An Anatomy of Racist Intimidation -dissects the secretive and opaque nature of Immigration Enforcement’s intelligence gathering, guidance on multi-agency operations and police cooperation. In addition, raids have a disproportionate impact on racialised
The Government has just announced its plans to deport 14,500 undocumented migrants within six months, via the expansion of detention and removal centres, and the expansion of the National Crime Agency, part of the Border Security Command, through the deployment of up to 100 new specialist intelligence and investigations officers, to target “people smuggling gangs”
We wrote to the PM as a coalition of human rights, racial justice, migrants’ rights and civil liberties groups following his statement on the recent far right violence across the country and plans to introduce a “wider deployment of facial recognition technology.” We joined him in condemning the racist, violent and disorderly scenes across the
sign up to our newsletter Dear supporters, We hope you are all keeping safe and well despite the horrific far-right racist violence spreading across the country. We are continuing as best we can to look after our impacted staff and wider community, while harnessing our mutual anger to hold those who spread racist hate and
With 80 anti-racist and migrant rights organisations, we’ve written to the Prime Minister asking for Parliament to be recalled to address far-right attacks spreading across the country. The Government must address the rampant racism, Islamophobia and anti-migrant hate fuelling this violence. Thank you to our friends at Runnymede Trust for coordinating this letter.
by MRN and Islamophobia Response Unit Far-right violence is spreading from Southport to Manchester and Whitehall accompanied by Islamophobic, racist and anti-migrant chants. The violence followed rampant misinformation online including comments by Tommy Robinson in which he linked the attack with Islam and migrants, whereby he actively encouraged protests against ‘asylum hotel owners’. This led
