No bias in housing allocation to migrants

The vast majority of people who live in social housing in Britain were born in the UK, according to a research study published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission. The study found that less than two per cent of all social housing residents are people who have moved to Britain in the last five [...]

Migration policy, racism and inequality in Scotland

“It strikes me that too often we seek comfort in a Scottish consensus that we are all Jock Tamsons’s  bairns – citizens of a fair and equal nation. We like to think we are free of racism and other inequalities because we prefer that to the truth.  In order to live up to our own [...]

Is it because I’m white? Or because I’m working class?

The white working class; Britain’s forgotten race victims? The Runnymede Trust has published a new study on the white working class and ethnic diversity in Britain. The report, Who Cares about the White Working Class?, disputes the claim that white working class communities have been directly losing out to migrants and minority ethnic groups, and [...]

No Place Like Home? new Shelter publication

Homelessness charity Shelter has criticised inadequate housing conditions for migrants in a report. No Place Like Home? is a discussion document focusing on the sizeable number of migrants who are homeless or in bad housing, but who fall outside of any kind of mainstream housing or welfare provision. In sections, the paper looks at: The [...]

Roma in Govanhill: film, 17 Oct, Glagow

Part of the Document 6 Film Festival Friday 17th October, 7:30pm CCA, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow Roma of Govanhill Janos Kovacs Janos Joka Daroczi Hungary | 2008 | 20 mins Since the industrial revolution, Glasgow, like Liverpool or London, is a city whose identity has largely been forged by successive waves of immigration, from the Gaels [...]

IPPR Report on The local economics of migration

Your Place or Mine? The local economics of migration This working paper, published 4th September 2008, is the first from ippr’s Economics of Migration project. The project aims to improve understanding of the economic impacts of migration in the UK, and how policy should respond to that migration in order to maximise its economic benefits, [...]

Population: size isn’t everything

Debate about the UK’s growing population must move beyond statistics: we must maximise the benefits of migration, writes Jill Rutter of IPPR. Once again, the release of Office for National Statistics (ONS) and European population projections has caused a flurry of anti-migration commentary in sectors of the media less comfortable with ethnic diversity. These population [...]

Race Religion & Refugee Integration Funding announced

A decision on the outcome of the RRRI fund has finally been made. The Scottish Government Equality Unit’s Race, Religion and Refugee Integration funding stream is designed to improve the lives of minority ethnic and faith communities in Scotland, including refugees, asylum seekers, migrant workers and Gypsies/Travellers. £5.5m funding has been made available from 1 [...]

Immigration and social cohesion: new JRF report

New from Joseph Rowntree Foundation… Trying to create a fixed sense of ‘Britishness’ will not achieve social cohesion Addressing deprivation and how people connect is more important for social cohesion than trying to get everyone to adhere to the same fixed notion of “Britishness”. This is according to research published today (21 July) by the [...]

Integrating rivers of blood

On the occasion of the anniversary of the infamous “rivers of blood” speech by Britain’s arch-xenophobe Enoch Powell, Trevor Phillips has called for an open debate on immigration policy. Forty years after Powell predicted disastrous social consequences if immigration levels were not reduced, the reformed multiculturalist and chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission [...]