• Windrush as Watershed?

    Windrush as Watershed?

    ICR member, Zana Vathi, writes here for the Institute for Social Responsibility’s blog on UK migration policy and practice, calling for scrutiny of migration governance and management.https://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/isr/windrush-as-watershed-revisiting-migration-policy-and-practice-in-the-uk/ Image: FL9448, Imperial War Museum, UK.

  • Social media & antisemitism conference report

    Social media & antisemitism conference report

    Organisers MONITOR Global Intelligence on Racism, RSCAS, European University Institute, Italy. International Centre on Racism (ICR), Edge Hill University, UK (CONFERENCE HOST). Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung (ZfA), Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. Funded by Aims Social media is impacting in significant ways on anti-Jewish racism- but what is novel about this relationship? Focused on this question, Edge Hill…

  • anti-racism statement from icr

    anti-racism statement from icr

    The International Centre on Racism stands against racism in all its forms. The death of George Floyd and others in the past in the name of law enforcement has saddened and appalled members of the Centre. We strongly condemn prejudice against black and minority ethnic people in the US, the UK and around the world.…

  • Hollywood & Covid: post-2020

    Hollywood & Covid: post-2020

    A week after Lockdown began in late March 2020, the Institute for Social Responsibility, based at Edge Hill University, made a call for contributions to its blog to comment on our responses to the Covid-19 epidemic and how our academic fields have been affected. Deputy Director of the International Centre on Racism, Jenny Barrett, contributed…

  • Social Media and Antisemitism

    Social Media and Antisemitism

    DECIPHERING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PREJUDICE AND COMMUNICATION CONFERENCE & PUBLIC WORKSHOP International Centre on Racism, Edge Hill University, UK 5-6 November 2019 Social media is arguably impacting in significant ways on anti-Jewish racism- but what is novel about this relationship? Focused on this question, Social Media & Antisemitism is the first conference to analyse the connection between…