BRITAIN
NB:
telephone numbers marked with # should be operational from 1 June 1999; official start date for number changes is 22 April 2000.International
Alert – The Standing International Forum on Ethnic Conflict, Genocide and
Human Rights
Association
for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism – ASEN
CEMES – Centre For European Migration and Ethnic Studies
Centre for Research in
Ethnic Relations – CRER
Ethnicity Research Group (Lancaster)
European Council on
Refugees & Exiles – ECRE
Human Rights Centre (Essex)
The Institute of Race Relations
– IRR
Joint Council for the
Welfare of Immigrants – JCWI
Migration and Ethnicity Research Centre
(Sheffield)
Migration Research Unit – MRU
Minority Rights Group – MRG
National
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children – NSPCC
Centre for New Ethnicities Research - CNER
Refugee Studies Programme – RSP
The Royal
Institute of International Affairs – Chatham House
Runnymede Trust
School of Human & Health Sciences
(Huddersfield)
The Scarman Centre
for the Study of Public Order – CSPO
Race Relations Research Unit (Bradford)
Institute for Public Policy
Research – IPPR
Anti-Slavery
British Institute for Human
Rights – BIHR
Commonwealth
Secretariat – Human Rights Unit – COMSEC/HRU
Institute of Education (London)
INTERNATIONAL
ALERT – THE STANDING INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON ETHNIC CONFLICT, GENOCIDE AND HUMAN
RIGHTS
1 Glyn Street, London SE11 5HT
Tel.: ++44 171 793 8383 [#020 7793 8383]
Fax: ++44 171 793 7975 [#020 7793 7975]
E-mail: general@international-alert.org
Director: Martin Honeywell
International Alert is registered as a charitable foundation in both the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Since 1986 it has worked (through information gathering and analysis, workshops and seminars) in collaboration with local NGOs, mainly in Africa and Asia, to develop early warning systems and action plans aimed at conflict prevention, conflict resolution and conflict transformation.
In 1997, IA promoted the establishment of FEWER, a consortium of academics, NGOs, states and UN agencies, to provide decision-makers with information and analysis to help prevent the escalation of violent conflict.
ASSOCIATION
FOR THE STUDY OF ETHNICITY AND NATIONALISM –ASEN
The London School of Economics and Political Science
Department of Sociology
Room L54, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE
Tel.: ++44 171 955 6801 [#020 7955 6801]
Fax: ++44 171 955 7405 [#020 7955 7405]
E-mail: ASEN@lse.ac.uk
Website: www.lse.ac.uk/depts/european/asen
Contact: Bruce Cauthen
ASEN was founded in 1990 at the London School of Economics and Political Science where the secretariat of the Association is based. Its aims are: to establish, through its membership, an international and multidisciplinary network of scholars interested in ethnicity and nationalism; to stimulate debate on ethnicity and nationalism through the organisation of seminars, workshops, lectures and conferences, including annual conferences and postgraduate interdisciplinary seminars, and to collect and diffuse information on scholarly activities concerning ethnicity and nationalism.
Regular publications include a newsletter, The Asen Bulletin and a journal Nations and Nationalism.
CEMES – CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN MIGRATION AND ETHNIC STUDIES
PO Box 4
Torpoint PL11 3YN
Tel.: ++44 1503-230030
Fax: ++44 1503-230031
E-mail: secretariat@cemes.org
Website: www.cemes.org
Director: Malcolm Cross
The Centre specialises in policy-relevant research, information and publishing on migration, ethnic relations and related topics in Western, Central and Eastern Europe. CEMES operates with a small secretariat linked by intranet communications with associates in thirteen European states. It runs the Ethnobarometer Programme, in partnership with CSS Rome, that is funded by a number of private foundations and the European Commission. The director is co-ordinator of the Mig-Cities network, which is a grouping of nine Western European research teams concerned with the economic and employment position of migrants and ethnic minorities in European cities. This project is funded under the TSER programme of the European Commission. The Centre is also linked with the Metropolis Project, which is an international forum for research and policy on migrants in cities to which 14 governments, international agencies and research teams are contributing.
The Centre is home to the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, which is a leading international publication available in nearly 30 countries worldwide. The Centre is developing an electronic information service through its website.
CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN
ETHNIC RELATIONS – CRER
The Centre carries out research on urban restructuring, the labour market, social policy and welfare, community organisation and mobilisation, political participation, ethnic monitoring, equal opportunity policies, ethnic nationalism, refugees and the study of Islam; as these questions relate to ethnic minorities in the UK and their interaction with the majority community. The work of the Centre on Europe concerns comparative studies of the discrimination and exclusion facing minority populations, multi-culturalism in European cities and the issues of immigration and citizenship in an emerging unified Europe.
The Centre represents the UK on the European Community's COST Committee, is involved in the EU’s Poverty Research Programme and has received funding for fellowships under its Human Capital and Mobility Programme.
The Centre is a recognised centre at which ESRC research students may work towards the degrees of MPhil. and PhD and is the recipient of Erasmus awards linking it with teaching institutions in France, Belgium, Portugal and the Netherlands. Occasional short courses are offered in different European countries under this initiative.
The Ethnicity Research Group has been engaged in four projects: 1) ‘Impact of Economic Change upon Ethnicity and Employment’. The study involved an assessment of the effects of economic restructuring upon ethnic minority groups in Britain. It made use of longitudinal information on life and work histories to assess employment trajectories. The results were published in 1990. 2) ‘Career Aspirations of Ethnic Minorities’. This research was undertaken for the Manpower Services Commission and the Department of Employment. It involved a survey of 400 young people aged 15 or 16 in their final year of compulsory education. The results were published in 1992. 3) ‘Career Trajectories and Ethnicity’. This research followed directly upon the previous project. It has involved two further interviews with a sub-sample of the original 400 respondents at the ages of 18 and 21. This research was still ongoing in 1996, but a report was submitted to Rochdale Training Enterprise Council and further results were presented to the ERCOMER Colloquium on ‘Migration, Social Exclusion and the European City’ at Utrecht in 1994. 4) ‘Ethnicity and Fertility’. The project involves a comparison of 400 women, 200 of whom live in Pakistan and 200 in Britain. Half the British sample comprise women from Pakistani backgrounds. The central purpose of the project, which also involves the Punjab University in Lahore, is to assess the impact of Western medical provision and contraceptive availability on fertility behaviour.
EUROPEAN COUNCIL ON
REFUGEES & EXILES – ECRE
Bondway House, 3 Bondway, London SW8 1SJ
Tel.: ++44 171 582 9928 [#020 7582 9928]
Fax: ++44 171 820 9725 [#020 7820 9725]
E-mail: ecre@ecre.org
Website: www.ecre.org
Director: Peer Baneke
The ECRE is an organisation established in 1973 for co-operation between more than 60 non-governmental organisations in Europe concerned with refugees and the right of asylum.
Its objective is to promote through joint analysis, research and information exchange, a humane and liberal asylum policy in Europe and the development of a comprehensive response to the global refugee question. ECRE is assisted by a Committee comprising voluntary agency representatives from several regions of Europe.
One of the instruments used by ECRE to achieve its objectives is the European Legal Network on Asylum (ELENA). ELENA is a legal forum for practitioners who aim to promote the highest human rights standards for the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers in daily individual counselling and advocacy work.
Since 1992, ECRE has run a programme, funded by UNHCR, to promote international refugee protection and assistance principles amongst NGOs, jurists and officials in selected Central and Eastern European states, and to support the development of local refugee related NGOs and NGO networks in the region. In 1995 the programme was active in seven countries.
HUMAN RIGHTS CENTRE
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ
Tel.: ++44 1206 872558
Fax: ++44 1206 873627
E mail: hrc@essex.ac.uk
Website: www.essex.ac.uk/human /human rights centre/
Director: Prof. Geoff Gilbert
The Centre offers an interdisciplinary academic programme (teaching and research) in the theory and practice of international human rights and international humanitarian law. The Centre has a special interest in the relationship between human rights and democracy and human rights education. Its current research projects deal with Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) monitoring the evolution of the human rights machinery and institution’, ‘A democratic audit of Britain’, ‘OSCE monitoring the human rights, conflict prevention mandate and mechanisms?’, ‘Genocide: a comparative study’, ‘Global study of the right to freedom of thought conscience and religion’, ‘Sustaining democratisation’, ‘Rights of the child’ and ‘Minorities: case study in Europe’.
The Centre offers courses on human rights law, theory and practice of human rights including LLM in International Human Rights Law, MA in Theory and Practice of Human Rights and MA in Peacekeeping. Training is also provided for human rights field officers.
The Centre publishes a series of papers in the Theory and Practice of Human Rights.
THE INSTITUTE OF RACE RELATIONS
– IRR
The Institute of Race Relations was established as an independent educational charity in 1958 to promote the study of race relations and make suggestions for their improvement. As the racial climate worsened the IRR began to reorientate itself. It carved out a role that was both separate from the strictly academic research being carried out in universities and independent of the ad hoc initiatives instituted by government. Since 1972 the IRR has concentrated on responding to the needs of black people and producing direct analyses of institutionalised racism in Britain and the rest of Europe.
The IRR is currently undertaking a major six-year research project on European racism examining the rise of racial violence and fascist parties, asylum and immigration policies, human rights violations, policing and security policies.
The Institute produces the journal, Race and Class and the Institute of Race Relations European Race Bulletin, both being published quarterly.
JOINT COUNCIL FOR THE
WELFARE OF IMMIGRANTS – JCWI
The Council was founded in 1967 and its objectives are: to work against racism and for social justice in British and EC immigration and nationality laws; and to advise and represent people with problems caused by these laws.
The Council’s activities are: advising individuals, groups and other advice agencies; taking up cases with the Home Office and immigration authorities; public lobbying, campaigning and media work on immigration and nationality issues; producing information on the laws and their effects; and, training other advisors in immigration and nationality law and practice.
The Council publishes an annual report and policy review and produces the JCWI Bulletin quarterly.
MIGRATION AND ETHNICITY RESEARCH CENTRE
The Centre was established in 1994. At present the staff centrally involved in research on migration and ethnicity are Professor Peter Jackson (Geography); Dr Simon Holdaway and Professor Richard Jenkins (Sociology).
A recent major research project, co-ordinated by Dr Clare Evans, focused upon Bradford, a major centre for immigrants and refugees (concentrating especially on East European groups) who came to Britain after the end of the Second World War. The project was directed particularly towards a study of gender and ethnicity.
The Centre’s postgraduate courses include: Baltic minorities in Britain since 1945; Jewish refugees in Britain following the Second World War; nation-building in Kazakstan; the history of antisemitism in Japan; the Black Justice project in Sheffield; Pakistani women in Sheffield; the role and significance of carnival in Leeds and Bristol.
MIGRATION RESEARCH UNIT – MRU
Department of Geography, University College of London
26 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AP
Tel.: ++44 171 5045525 [#020 7504 5525]
Fax: ++44 171 3807565 [#020 7380 7565]
E-mail: jsalt@geog.ucl.ac.uk
Director: John Salt
The Migration Research Unit (MRU) is based in the Department of Geography at UCL. Since 1989 the MRU has conducted a series of major research projects on international migration in the UK and Europe. Much of the output of this research has been concerned with the nature of data and data systems, especially in projects for Eurostat.
Research foci include: 1. Labour migration, particularly among the highly skilled. 2. Statistics, sources and information systems. 3. Analysis of trends and processes of international migration in Europe. 4. UK and international migration.
MINORITY RIGHTS GROUP – MRG
379 Brixton Road, London SW9 7DE
Tel.: ++44 171 9789498 [#020 7978 9498]
Fax: ++44 171 7386265 [#020 7738 6265]
E-mail: minority.rights@mrgmail.org
Website: www.minorityrights.org
Director: Alan Phillips
The MRG is an international non-governmental organisation founded in the 1960s, working to secure rights and justice for ethnic, religious, and linguistic minorities worldwide, and to promote co-operation between communities.
In order to achieve these aims, MRG commissions and publishes reports, books and papers on minority issues; promotes minority rights through direct advocacy in international fora and in dialogue with governments; builds on a global network of like-minded organisations and minority communities to cooperate on minority rights issues; challenges prejudice and racism through its education and information projects. Details of publications can be obtained from the MRG website.
NATIONAL
SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN – NSPCC
NSPCC National Centre, 42 Curtain Road, London EC2A 3NH
Tel.: ++44 171 8282500 [#020 7828 2500]
Fax: ++44 171 8252762 [#020 7825 2762]
E-mail: nspcc-research@mailbox.ulec
Website: http://www.nspcc.org.uk
The NSPCC incorporates a Child Protection Research Group, which carries out research on the child protection and the rights of the child. Current work deals with domestic violence; child protection responses in schools; violence between residents in children’s homes (these last two funded as part of the ESRC Violence Research Programme); support for sexually abused young people in the UK, Italy and the Netherlands; police protection for children, representation of children in the public care system, and the prevalence of abuse and neglect. Issues of race, ethnicity and culture are considered in all projects as these relate to the protection of children. A review of the effects of racism and racial abuse has just been completed.
CENTRE FOR NEW ETHNICITIES RESEARCH - CNER
University of East London
Longbridge Road, Dagenham, Essex, RM8 2AS
Tel.: ++44 181 590 7700x2512 [#020 8590 7700]
Fax: ++44 181 849 3561x2861 [#020 8849 3561]
E-mail: L.John@uel.ac.uk
Website: www.uel.ac.uk/faculties/sosci/culture/cner/
Contacts: Phil Cohen, Linda John
The Centre for New Ethnicities was established at the University of East London in 1991 with the aim of developing programmes of research, education and community arts examining issues of race and ethnicity within both a local and global context. Members of the Unit come from a variety of disciplines and perspectives as do its external research associates.
The Unit undertakes staff development and consultancy work, and disseminates its work through public lectures, workshops and publications.
The Centre’s publications include anthologies and monographs. Some lectures are available on video cassette. The CNER newsletter New Ethnicities, is published twice yearly.
REFUGEE STUDIES PROGRAMME – RSP
International Development Centre, University of Oxford
Queen Elizabeth House, 21 St. Giles, Oxford OX1 3LA
Tel.: ++44 1865 270722
Fax: ++44 1865 270721
E-mail: rsp@qeh.ox.ac.uk
Website: www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/rsp/
Director: Dr David Turnton
The RSP is a multi-disciplinary programme that aims at increasing the understanding of the causes and consequences of forced migrations.
Established in 1982, the RSP conducts research into the theory and practice of humanitarian assistance, the dynamics of displacement, human rights and citizenship; offers a nine-month course on forced migration and short in-service courses as well as a summer school for practitioners and government personnel on legal, psychological, political and social dimensions of refugee assistance; publishes books, an academic journal, the Journal of Refugee Studies and the RPN Newsletter, which is distributed free of charge to a network of over 4,500 in some 100 countries; manages an electronic mailing list of those studying and working in refugee issues; sponsors seminars and conferences; and houses an extensive collection of materials on forced migration.
RSP also participates in a EU Training and Mobility network for the study of diasporas, diaspora politics and the cultural identity of diaspora. Collaborating institutions include the Department of Ethnology, University of Hamburg; Department of Anthropology, University College Dublin; and the Department of Psychology, University of Thessaloniki, Greece. The research is based on comparative case studies including Russian Jews in Germany and Israel; Soviet Greeks in Russia, Ukraine, Georgia and Kazakhstan; Greek communities in Tanzania; Albanians in Greece; and various Italian and Irish diaspora communities in the US and Africa. The network also organises a post-graduate summer school for the training of young researchers.
RSP has a weekend course on 20 and 21 May 2000, ‘The Rights of Refugees under International Law’, focusing on the specific human rights to which all refugees are entitled under the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol. The instructor for the course is Professor James C. Hathaway, Director of the Program in Refugee and Asylum Law at the University of Michigan Law School and Senior Visiting Research Associate at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford.
The course is being held in Oxford, and costs UK £120.00 (excluding accommodation). Full details can be obtained from Ms Dominique Attala, E-mail: rspedu@ermine.ox.ac.uk, other contact details as above.
THE ROYAL
INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS – CHATHAM HOUSE
10 St. James’s Square, London SW1Y 4LE
Tel.: ++44 171 9575700 [#020 7957 5700]
Fax: ++44 171 9575710 [#020 7957 5710]
Contact: Rose Heathley (Public Affairs Officer)
The Institute occasionally runs conferences and other events on minorities and ethnic conflict, mostly from the perspective of their impact on security and international relations.
RUNNYMEDE TRUST
133 Aldersgate Street, London E1A 4JA
Tel.: ++44 171 600 9666 [#020 7600 9666]
E-mail: run1@btinternet.com
Director: Sukhvinder Kaur Stubbs
The Runnymede Trust was founded in 1968 and its objectives are: to provide information on immigration and race in Britain and the EU, and to contribute to the elimination of all aspects of racism and discrimination and the promotion of racial justice. The Trust has an information office and small library open to the public by appointment and in addition the information officers answer questions on race and immigration by letter or telephone.
It has published a wide range of reports and pamphlets on specific aspects of race and immigration. Its newsletter, Runnymede Bulletin, is published monthly.
SCHOOL OF HUMAN & HEALTH SCIENCES
University of Huddersfield
Queensgate Huddersfield, West Yorkshire HD1 3DH, UK
Tel.: ++44 1484 422288
Fax: ++44 1484 472794
E-mail: v.kemenade@hud.ac.uk
Director: Rudy van Kemenade
Currently, two members of the School are doing research on ethnic issues: on the role played by Loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland (Dr McAuley); and on English identity and the way in which this identity has been hidden or juxtaposed with British identity (Mr van Kemenade).
THE SCARMAN CENTRE
FOR THE STUDY OF PUBLIC ORDER – CSPO
University of Leicester
6 Salisbury Road, Leicester LE17 QR
Tel.: ++ 44 116 2522458
Fax: ++ 44 116 2523944
E-mail: cspo@le.ac.uk
Website: www.le.ac.uk/scarman/
Director: John Benyon (Dr Martin Gill, from 1 August 1999)
The CSPO was established in 1987 to undertake research, teaching and professional training in the study of public disorder, crime and punishment, policing, ethnic studies, crime prevention and security management, and associated fields. The work of the Centre is wide ranging, taking public order issues to include the study of how order is sustained in societies as well as how, and in what circumstances, it may be challenged.
The Centre is interested in the nature, causes and consequences of crime and disorder and in different mechanisms of social control. Other questions include how political and social institutions and policies affect public order.
The Centre offers four Masters’ degrees, which may be studied full-time in one year or part-time over two years, and are recognised by the Economic and Social Research Council for the receipt of studentships. In addition, the Centre also runs five Masters’ degrees by distance learning.
Research interests extend from the study of riots and public disorder to investigations of crime and its prevention and detection, and examination of policing policies and methods, to explorations of race and ethnic relations and inner-city issues, the study of different forms or punishment and theoretical and practical approaches to risk and security management. The Centre places emphasis on the dissemination of ideas and research findings through publications, conferences, short courses and work with specialist journals and the mass media.
RACE RELATIONS RESEARCH UNIT
Bradford and Ilkley Community College
Great Horton Road, Bradford BD7 1AY
Tel.: ++ 44 1274 751668
Fax: ++ 44 1274 741060
E-mail: Ranjita@bilk.ac.uk
Director: Dr Ranjit Arora
INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY
RESEARCH – IPPR
30-42 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7RA
Tel.: ++ 44 171 470 6100 [#020 7470 6100]
Fax: ++ 44 171 470 6111 [#020 7470 6111]
E mail: ippr@easynet.co.uk
Website: www.ippr.org.uk
Contact: Kirsty Hughes
The Institute is an independent charity whose purpose is to contribute to public understanding of social, economic and political questions through research, discussion and publication.
IPPR publishes an Annual Report and In Progress, a twice yearly bulletin giving details on work in progress and conferences. The Bulletin also gives details of the numerous monographs and papers which are available from IPPR.
ANTI-SLAVERY
Thomas Clarkson House, The Stableyard
Broomgrove Rd., London SW9 9TL
Tel.: ++44 171 924 9555 [#020 7924 9555]
Fax: ++44 171 738 4110 [#020 7738 4110]
E-mail: antislavery@gn.apc.org
Website: www.charitynet.org/~asi
Contacts: Mike Dottridge, David Ould
Anti-Slavery promotes the eradication of slavery and slavery-like practices. To this end they support the rights and well-being of indigenous populations and its work addresses issues of slavery, debt boundage, serfdom, minority rights, child labour and the rights of the child.
Anti-Slavery focuses on the rights of people who are particularly vulnerable to exploitation of their labour, notably women, children, migrant workers and indigenous peoples. These objectives are promoted by: collecting information about abuses, bringing them to public attention and promoting action to end them; seeking to identify ways in which abuses may be brought to an end , and seeking to influence policy; supporting victims of the abuses which Anti-Slavery opposes, in particular by working with organisations which victims establish and others working on their behalf. Anti-Slavery is a membership organisation with members in more than 30 countries and is currently researching or campaigning in Asia, the Americas, Africa and Europe.
Anti-Slavery publishes a newsletter The Reporter four times each year.
BRITISH INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN
RIGHTS – BIHR
School of Law, King’s College
8th Floor, 75-79 York Road, London, SE1 7AW
Tel.: ++44 171 401 2712 [#020 7401 2712]
Fax: ++44 171 401 2695 [#020 7401 2695]
E-mmail: bihr@kcl.ac.uk
Website: www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/schools/law/research/bihr/index.html
Contact: Sarah Cooke
The main objectives if the BIHR are research and education in the human rights field. It has set up the ‘Education in Human Rights Network’ to combat racial and sex discrimination and to contribute to ending discriminations on grounds such as sex, race, colour, language, religion and political opinion. The Institute also operates jointly with the British Institute of Comparative and International Law, and the Human Rights Documentation Depository.
The BIHR runs human rights training programmes at home and abroad and also acts as the official UK correspondent to the Council of Europe. It is currently running a lecture series on the incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights into domestic law.
The Institute is joint publisher with Sweet and Maxwell of Human Rights Case Digest.
COMMONWEALTH
SECRETARIAT – HUMAN RIGHTS UNIT – COMSEC/HRU
Marlborough House, Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5HX
Tel.: ++44 171 839 3411 [#020 7839 3411]
Fax: ++44 171 930 0827 [#020 7930 0827]
Director: Mrs C. Mulindwa-Matovu
The Centre’s current research projects deal with ‘Human rights and development’ and the ‘Overall programme of the Commonwealth in the light of its contribution towards the attainment of the right to development’. The Centre offers also courses on the promotion of human rights within the Commonwealth.
INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION
International Centre for Intercultural Studies, University of
London
20 Bedford Way, London WC1H OAL
Tel.: ++44 171 6126722 [#020 7612 6722]
Fax: ++44 171 6126733 [#020 7612 6733]
E-mail: a.henfield@ioe.ac.uk
Website: www.ioe.ac.uk/ccs
Director: Dr J.S. Gundara
The Institute carries out interdisciplinary research to analyse problems of rights, political and social inequalities, rights to equality with specific reference to gender, race, class, disability, and sexuality. Current research programmes include work on human rights education, refugee education, and bilingual education.
The Institute offers courses in rights in education and politics of rights and publishes occasional papers and working papers.