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WSWS : News & Analysis : Europe : Britain
 
Racial Violence & Immigrant Issues in Britain

     

29 July 2008
British government implicated in abuse of refugees and asylum seekers

28 July 2008
Islamophobia in the British media

4 June 2008
Britain: Demonstrators oppose deportation of refugee activist Amdani Juma

23 February 2008
Britain: government targets child asylum seekers

18 January 2008
Britain: Terminally ill Ghanaian woman deported and denied medical care

4 January 2008
Britain: Gifted young footballer fights deportation

14 June 2007
Conditions worsen at UK asylum-seeker detention centres

26 April 2007
Britain: Labour whips up anti-immigrant prejudice

24 September 2005
Britain: asylum detainee commits suicide

18 April 2005
Britain: report alleges assaults on immigration detainees

16 March 2005
Britain: BBC documentary exposes abuse of asylum seekers

3 March 2005
Britain: Labour and Conservative parties compete over anti-immigrant measures

12 February 2005
Britain: report documents widespread forced migrant labour

27 August 2004
Britain: Iraqi asylum seeker ends 46-day hunger strike

1 May 2004
UK: Racial Equality chairman calls for compulsory teaching of "a core of Britishness"

24 March 2004
Britain: The beating of Delbo King highlights police racism and brutality

9 March 2004
Britain: Kurds on hunger strike against deportation

11 February 2004
Britain: 19 Chinese workers drown working on slave labour gang

28 January 2004
Britain: Asylum seekers protest persecution

5 January 2004
Britain: Government steps up attacks on asylum seekers

15 November 2003
Britain: New government attack on asylum seekers

25 September 2003
Britain: Notorious Yarl's Wood asylum detention centre reopens

12 September 2003
Britain: Iranian asylum seeker driven to suicide

10 September 2003
Blair government endorses Murdoch's anti-immigrant campaign

26 August 2003
UK asylum policy faces criticism as Kurdish family is deported

7 August 2003
Britain: Asylum-seekers detained under prison-like conditions

23 July 2003
British report details tremendous obstacles facing asylum-seekers

12 July 2003
Britain: Second Iranian asylum seeker risks death in protest

9 July 2003
Asylum-seekers targeted by rioters in Wales

30 May 2003
Britain: Iranian refugee mutilates himself to protest conditions facing asylum seekers

29 January 2003
Britain: Police raid on mosque aimed at intimidating immigrants

30 July 2002
Afghan boys denied asylum by Britain after escaping from Australian camp

25 May 2002
Britain: Labour government whips up anti-immigrant sentiment

21 February 2002
Britain: Fire at Yarl's Wood detention centre highlights plight of refugees

16 January 2002
Britain temporarily "suspends" deportation of Zimbabwean refugees

11 January 2002
Britain: Behind the row over Jamaican "drug mules"

17 December 2001
Britain: Report into summer riots recommends oath of national allegiance

10 November 2001
British Muslims threatened with treason charges

3 November 2001
Britain: Labour introduces ID cards and routine detention for asylum seekers

19 October 2001
Britain: Labour government plans to introduce internment

28 September 2001
Britain: Racist attacks escalate

15 September 2001
Britain and France seek tougher measures against refugees

12 September 2001
Britain: Protests as High Court rules government illegally detains asylum seekers

31 August 2001
Sangatte camp exposes brutal French and British asylum policy

27 August 2001
Britain: Report critical of treatment of child refugees

23 August 2001
Kosovan refugee drowns trying to swim to Britain

17 August 2001
British and Czech governments suspend racist anti-Roma airport checks

16 August 2001
Britain: Government plans forcible removal of 60,000 asylum seekers

9 August 2001
Asylum seeker killed in Glasgow, Scotland

24 July 2001
Britain: Bradford report shows dead end of racially-based politics

10 July 2001
Britain: Bradford is fourth city hit by riots

27 June 2001
Britain: Burnley hit by riots

29 May 2001
Britain: Oldham riots sparked by deliberate cultivation of racism

25 May 2001
Scotland: Asylum seekers hounded and beaten

22 May 2001
Britain's general election: Labour and Conservatives vie over which has toughest asylum policy

28 April 2001
Britain: Labour government steps up persecution of asylum seekers

26 April 2001
Britain: Racism row continues in run up to general election

10 April 2001
European report condemns British racism and xenophobia

15 February 2001
Britain calls for revision of Geneva Convention on asylum

29 December 2000
Two stowaways fall to their deaths from British planes

2 September 2000
United Nations criticises UK on race relations

10 July 2000
London nail-bomber found guilty of politically motivated murder campaign

30 June 2000
Ten charged in Holland and UK for deaths of 58 Chinese immigrants

23 June 2000
British Home Secretary campaigns to overturn Geneva Convention on asylum

21 June 2000
58 Chinese migrants found dead in lorry at Dover, Britain

6 June 2000
Audit Commission report critical of Britain's compulsory dispersal of refugees

22 April 2000
Britain's Conservative Party leader Hague plays the "race card"

12 April 2000
Britain: Labour government and Conservative opposition reported for stoking up anti-immigrant prejudices

8 April 2000
Britain: Racist attacks follow in wake of anti-immigrant press campaign

3 March 2000
Britain refuses asylum to hijacked Afghanis

11 February 2000
After the hijacking: British government, media demand deportation of Afghanis

9 February 2000
British High Court ruling opens way for deportation of over 6,000 Kurdish asylum-seekers

2 February 2000
UK prison deemed guilty of "institutional neglect" in treatment of asylum-seekers

17 December 1999
British Labour government intensifies attacks on asylum-seekers

20 November 1999
London inquest into Asian student's death returns open verdict

1 September 1999
British government advances quota system for housing asylum-seekers

25 August 1999
British Home Secretary pushes through scheme to disperse asylum-seekers throughout country

23 August 1999
Britain's Home Secretary denounced for inciting racial hatred against Gypsies

20 August 1999
Dover, England refugees become focus of chauvinist campaign

30 July 1999
The Stephen Lawrence case
London detective cleared on all but two disciplinary charges in cover-up of racist murder

4 May 1999
London nail-bomber arrested--What shapes the psychology of hate?

10 April 1999
Tonight programme interviews the Stephen Lawrence murder suspects--the decline of investigative journalism in Britain

10 March 1999
Britain: Inquiry into racist murder of Stephen Lawrence: Macpherson report leaves major questions unanswered

27 February 1999
Britain: Macpherson report fingers witnesses in Stephen Lawrence murder

25 February 1999
Britain: Macpherson inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence provokes right-wing backlash

23 February 1999
British Home Secretary issues gagging order over Stephen Lawrence inquiry

2 February 1999
The Stephen Lawrence case: police credibility slides further into disrepute

19 January 1999
Public inquiry in Britain
Police officers evade disciplinary charges in racist killing of Stephen Lawrence

23 July 1998
The cover-up of a racist murder in Britain
What the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry has revealed and what it has not

5 June 1998
The Stephen Lawrence inquiry
Police cover-up of racist killing unravels in Britain

 

See Also

30 July 1998
Labour Government sets out to close Britain's borders to refugees

24 June 1998
Case against nine asylum seekers in Britain collapses

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