Subject areas

Archives and press cuttings are arranged broadly in the following subject areas:

Immigration
Includes material on immigration law, government policies, immigration statistics, sex discrimination in immigration law, proposals for repatriation, deportations, controversial medical examinations of immigrants, detention of immigrants, refugees including East African Asians in the 1970s and Vietnamese Boat People in the 1980s, internal immigration controls such as police procedures.

Deportations: Individual cases and campaigns
Includes material relating to cases of individuals or families under threat of deportation or appealing against deportation from the United Kingdom as well as campaigns against deportations.

Citizenship and nationality
Material relating to citizenship and nationality issues including the British Nationality Act 1981 and nationality questions concerning Hong Kong citizens.

Race and Racism
Material relating to issues including discrimination, race relations law and policy, local area studies into race relations, Commission for Racial Equality, anti-racist groups and campaigns, black groups, voluntary organisations and local authority policies.

Politics and race relations
Material relating to race relations issues regarding political parties, politicians including Enoch Powell, Margaret Thatcher and Norman Tebbitt, and the participation of ethnic minorities in politics.

Far-right and fascist political groups in Britain
Material relating to far-right, racist and fascist political groups in Britain and their supporters. Includes material on the National Front and other far-right groups.

Far-right and fascist groups outside Britain
Material on far-right groups in Europe, USA and other countries.

Employment
Material relating to employment, unemployment and ethnic minorities. Includes cases of racial discrimination in employment, the work of the Runnymede Trust Industrial Unit, Black youth unemployment, race awareness training schemes, migrant workers, industrial disputes, and equal opportunities.

Housing
Local authority and government policies and strategies on housing issues. Includes material on the effects of the Poll Tax on ethnic minorities in the 1980s, housing associations, home ownership, work of the Runnymede Trust Housing Unit, racial discrimination in local authority housing practices, homelessness among ethnic minorities.

Inner Cities
Material on inner city problems and regeneration. Includes material on urban deprivation, ethnic minorities in inner cities, government policy and initiatives, papers relating to Section 11 of the Local Government Act 1966 and its proposed reform and the Single Regeneration Budget.

Social Services
Material on social services, welfare and ethnic minorities, including youth work and youth services, race issues related to adoption and fostering, children from ethnic minorities in care, papers from the Committee of Non-racial Benefits, racism in the social security system, child benefit and the abolition of Child Tax Allowance, social work training.

Health and the National Health Service
Includes material on health issues relating to ethnic minorities such as mental illness, tuberculosis, sickle-cell and rickets. There is also material on Black and Asian health workers and the NHS and overseas visitors.

Education
Material on Black and Asian pupils and racism in schools, the Swann Committee of Enquiry and report on the education of children from ethnic minority groups in 1985, racial harassment in school and racial bias in school text books, language teaching and mother-tongue teaching, race and intelligence testing, libraries and ethnic minority provisions, children with learning difficulties, disruptive units and truancy, teachers, teacher training and the recruitment of ethnic minority teachers, religion in schools and religious schools, adult and further education.

Policing, crime and racially motivated crime
Police policy and strategy, race and crime and racially motivated crime. Includes material on preventive policing, police and ethnic minorities, material on the work of the Police Advisory Sub-Committee of the Runnymede Trust, racism in the police force including individual cases such as Colin Roach, police recruitment and training and recruitment of Black officers, police and community relations, racial violence and racial harassment, the proposed repeal of the 'Sus' laws and Criminal Attempts Act 1981, race and crime, young offenders and drugs related crimes, disturbances in Brixton and Toxteth in 1981, Handsworth in 1985, Tottenham 1985 and Bristol 1986.

Prisons
Material on prisons, prisoners, prisoners' rights, prison reform, women in prison, Black people and prisons, race relations in prison, deaths in custody.

Ethnic minorities and the legal system
Includes material on ethnic group members working in the Criminal justice system, equal opportunities in the system, racial discrimination in criminal justice, courts and sentencing.

Demography and the ethnic population in Britain
Population trends in Britain, population projections of ethnic groups, the Censuses and ethnicity questions, population statistics.

Culture, arts, religion and ethnic groups in Britain
Material relating to culture, creative arts, sport and religions and ethnic groups in Britain. Includes material on the response to Salman Rushdie1s novel 'The Satanic Verses'. Material on individual religious and cultural groups in Britain such as Muslims, Jews, Rastafarians, Chinese, Arabs, Europeans, Asians, Travellers, Latin Americans and Africans. Material on religious discrimination and islamophobia. Some material on racism in sport and British Black and Asian history.

Migrants and ethnic issues in Europe and the European Community
Material relating to the Schengen Agreement on the abolition of controls at common internal frontiers of countries within the European Union, the Single European Market in 1992 and implications for migration.

Women from ethnic groups in Britain
Material on attitudes of and towards women of ethnic groups in Britain. Includes material on Black women and the National Health Service, education and employment of Black, Asian and immigrant women, domestic violence, sexism, prostitution and marriage.

The media and ethnic minorities
Material relating to cinema, television, radio and newspapers and attitudes by and towards ethnic groups in Britain. Includes material on race and the media, representations of ethnic minorities in the media. Black and Asian workers in the media and programmes for minority audiences. There is also material on the Black and Asian press.

Human Rights
Material on human rights and civil rights legislation in Britain and internationally. Includes material on civil liberties, children's rights, identity cards and the proposed Bill of Rights. Includes material on the European Court of Human Rights and on data protection and computer monitoring of immigration.