Date: Wednesday 17 March 2010
Time: 5-7pm
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Arun Kundnani, Nira Yuval-Davis, Joseph Harker
Chair: Malcolm James, Naaz Rashid

With immigration issues increasingly taking centre-stage during New Labour's tenure in government, and with the electoral success of the BNP and the rise of the Right arguably signalling a resurgence of racism and xenophobia in British society, this event will discuss the relationship between these two contentious developments.

Arun Kundnani is with the Institute of Race Relations and is also Editor of the journal Race & Class. Nira Yuval-Davis is the director of the Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging at the University of East London. Joseph Harker is the Assistant Comment Editor of the Guardian.

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