Race and Europe Link Round Up – 11-18- 2011
UK family attacked by gang of thugs who viciously assaulted them with a plank of wood, in what they believe was a racist attack. Del Singh, his wife Jo Kaur-Hayre (who ended up with nine stitches to her face) and their children and grandchildren, were attacked outside their home in Marsh Green, a suburb of Wigan, near Manchester, after trying to stop an act of vandalism. Mr. Singh said, of his life in the small town of Marsh Green “This street itself is fine; we get on well with the neighbours. But all I have to do is walk down for a bus or to the shops and I get met with the most vile, racist abuse”.
Croatian Journalist Barbara Matejcic teams up with a Roma and a Muslim woman to find out how pervasive racial and religious discriminations are in her country. They respond to 100 ads for housing and jobs and document the responses (spoiler alert: some people wouldn’t even open the door for the Roma and Muslim women).
Arson attack on mosque in eastern France. A group calling itself Les Echappees Belles (The Lucky Escapes) claimed responsibility for the incident in tracts left near the mosque. The group – believed to be a group of women loosely influenced by right-wing extremists, had claimed responsibility for setting fire to the mosque’s van in October.
UK Border Agency officials ‘illegally targeting’ bus passengers. Staff from the UK Border Agency have been “regularly” targeting coaches at bus stations “to prevent undocumented migrants from making use of the public transport network”. However, the practice appears to be illegal, with officials only authorized to examine passengers at air or sea ports.
Flavia Dzodan is a transnational feminist. She runs the blog Red Light Politics and is a regular contributor to Tiger Beatdown and Persephone Magazine. She volunteered to do a link round up on European race issues for our blog.
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