Charles Leddy-Owen

Citizenship advice event

11th November 2016 Charles Leddy-Owen Impact & Outreach, News and Events, Previous Events

On 18 September 2016 CRaB teamed up with local migrant advocacy and support group Friends Without Borders to provide free immigration law advice for anyone concerned with their status in the UK following the ‘Leave’ vote in June’s EU referendum. Advice was provided by three qualified advisers in the form of a 45 minute talk followed by one-to-one advice sessions. Issues covered included qualifying for residency status, how to obtain permanent residence, and how to obtain citizenship. The overall advice given was that those potentially affected shouldn’t worry, but that ensuring they were qualified according to the UK’s interpretation of

Film Screening to mark Refugee Week 2016

11th November 2016 Charles Leddy-Owen Impact & Outreach, News and Events, Previous Events

On 22 June 2016 CRaB teamed up with localmigrant advocacy and support group Friends Without Borders to mark Refugee Week 2016. We screened the film Dirty Pretty Things, which follows the experiences of ‘illegal’ immigrants in London. The film was followed by a panel discussion chaired by CRaB’s Charlie Leddy-Owen involving John Bosco-Nyombi, Treasurer of Friends Without Borders, Majid Dhana, Red Cross volunteer and poet, and the Chair of Friends Without Borders, Michael Woolley. Discussing the themes raised in the film, John and Majid spoke very movingly about their experiences of injustice with the UK’s immigration system and the lasting effect

CRaB launch event: Lecture by Professor John Solomos – ‘Conceptualising 21st Century Racisms’

11th November 2016 Charles Leddy-Owen News and Events, Previous Events

CRaB was officially launched on 8 January 2016 with a talk by Professor John Solomos of the University of Warwick. John is one of Britain’s foremost scholars of race and racism and spoke on the topic of ‘Conceptualising 21st Century Racisms’. Following an introduction by the University of Portsmouth’s Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation Professor Pal Ahluwalia John spoke about how the theoretical advances in the study of race and racism that emerged in the 1980s and 1990s – notions such as the ‘new racism’ or ‘cultural racism’ – were still highly salient today in relation to recent reconfigurations of