Research Reports

Migrants and Racialised people are punished already by policing systems, and Mobile Biometrics further punishes and harms our communities. This report calls for reparative justice and healing justice for communities and an end to this system of policing and immigration enforcement.

The report is one of reflection, learning and accountability to our communities, Black and Brown-led movements and ourselves. It centres the voice and experience of Black and Brown-led movement leaders as a measure of whether the Unlearning Racism Programme has served its purpose and fulfilled its aims. Whilst also reflecting the experience of the white people who have been part of this process from the beginning, who have held the work under the leadership and mentorship of Black and Brown movement leaders and elders.

The report aims to ensure that the building blocks of the 13th are documented, shared and embodied by all those working, organising and mobilising in the climate movement. The report acknowledges, celebrates and uplifts our knowledge systems and knowledge production and the international, intersectional and inter-generational decolonial methods we embody.Uses our learning to actively resist being drawn into the ‘status quo’ of Eurocentricity.

The report examines how UK police forces have used mobile biometric tools (fingerprint scanners linked to immigration and police databases) and operator-initiated facial recognition (OIFR) over the period 2020–2022. It is grounded in Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to UK police forces, as part of the #StopTheSCANdal / #HandsOffOurBiodata campaign, with support from Big Brother Watch. We argue that the rollout of these technologies represents a serious threat to privacy, civil liberties, and especially to racially minoritised and migrant communities, given existing policing inequalities.

A new report written to draw attention to the experiences of migrant communities within West Yorkshire. The report discusses issues that arose from being caught between a rock and hard place that is policies, legislations and marginalisation that extend from structural racism whilst dealing with a global pandemic

The Racial Justice Network and Yorkshire Resists, in conjunction with Queen Mary University of London, released a new report written to draw attention to the national use of the Biometric Services Gateway (mobile fingerprinting) by police forces. The report discusses issues that arose from new data obtained through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request from […]

This report explores how the public views the introduction of mobile fingerprint-scanning by police via the Biometric Services Gateway (BSG) system, especially in relation to civil liberties, racial profiling, and trust in policing. It is based on two sources of data: An online survey of 115 participants, asking about their views on the BSG and related issues and Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to police forces (especially in West Yorkshire) about how mobile fingerprint scanners are being used in practice.

This report provides an insight into the hate crime experiences of migrants in Leeds and Bradford. This report includes the narratives of individuals who have experienced a hate crime and reported it to West Yorkshire Police.