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Dear Colleagues Fyi. Best wishes Naseem 1. Report on British attitudes to immigration and integration In June 2012, GMF (the German Marshall Fund of the United States) published ‘Parochial and Cosmopolitan Britain: Examining the Social Divide in Reactions to Immigration’ by Robert Ford. The report shows that British opinion is negative overall, but strongly divided: The British public is more negative about immigration than that of the other countries surveyed by Transatlantic Trends Immigration (TTI), but they are also more divided over the issue. Age, education, economic security, and migrant heritage all strongly predict views about immigration and immigrants in TTI countries, but the effects are stronger in Britain than elsewhere. These factors also all overlap, both in Britain and elsewhere; in particular, the last three are all related to age. The result is a generational divide over immigration, with older generations much more hostile about immigration than younger cohorts. This divide is wider in Britain than in other TTI countries. See the report: http://www.gmfus.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files_mf/1337623670Ford_BritishImmigrationAttitudes_Apr12_web.pdf 2. The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust will be holding free workshops across the UK between September and October for those interested in marking Holocaust Memorial Day 2013 - 27 January. Holocaust Memorial Day - 27 January - is the UK’s annual day for commemorating the victims of the Holocaust, Nazi Persecution and subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. Local activities are held across the UK each year by schools, local authorities, voluntary and community groups, trade unions, prisons and a number of other organisations. The workshops will help people to create a meaningful Holocaust Memorial Day activity for their audiences, exploring the HMD 2013 theme ‘Communities Together: Build a Bridge’. For further information or to book a place please click the following link: http://hmd.org.uk/about/our-work/hmd-workshops 3. Stonewall: ‘The School Report. The experiences of gay young people in Britain’s schools in 2012′ The School Report is a survey of more than 1,600 young gay people. A key finding of the report is that: Homophobic bullying continues to be widespread in Britain’s schools. More than half (55 per cent) of lesbian, gay and bisexual pupils have experienced direct bullying. Download this report at: http://www.stonewall.org.uk/documents/school_report_2012.pdf 4. At Home in Europe Project report on ‘Muslims in London’ ‘Muslims in London’ highlights the complexities around belonging and identity amongst Muslim and non-Muslim residents living in Waltham Forest, one of London’s 2012 Olympic boroughs. This report is the tenth report in the Muslims in EU Cities series produced by the Open Society Foundations At Home in Europe Project. It is the result of research that examines the level and nature of integration of Muslims in 11 cities across Europe (Antwerp, Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Leicester, London, Marseille, Paris, Rotterdam, and Stockholm). Download this report at: http://www.soros.org/sites/default/files/muslims-in-london-20120715.pdf Or summary of findings: http://www.soros.org/sites/default/files/muslims-london-findings-recommendations-20120715.pdf