Representation, Rights & Migration of the British-Chinese Community

Tuesday 16th March 2010

Conference on Representation, Rights & Migration of the British-Chinese Community

10.30am to 3pm (Registration from 10am)

at Committee Room 10, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA.

Panellists include

Shahid Malik MP (Under-secretary of state for Communities & Local Government)

Dr Sylvia Sham (Wai Yin Chinese Women Society)

Dr Rob Berkeley (Runnymede Trust)

Dr Robin Pharoah (Ethnographic Social Research Options)

Ruth Grove-White (Migrants Rights Network)

Dr Ping Hua (Chinese Association of Southampton)

Suresh Grover (The Monitoring Group)

Bobby Chan (The Monitoring Group Min Quan)

A report from the Monitoring Group-Min Quan Project into levels of racism experienced by members of the UK Chinese community published last year found:

*People of Chinese origin in the UK experience substantial racism, perhaps as much as or more than any other minority ethnic group

*Perpetrators can be as young as 10 years old, with their behaviour often dismissed as ‘a bit of fun’

*Owners and workers in the Chinese catering industry face verbal abuse and non-payment for goods every day. This behaviour sometimes escalates to physical assault and even murder

Watch Sadiq Khan MP speak about the launch of ‘Hidden From Public View ? Racism Against the UK’s Chinese Population below