The British Anti-Terrorism Legal Policy from Perspectives of Civil Liberty and Human Rights of Refugees and Migrants

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In order to collect necessary data and relevant literature for this research, I conducted fieldwork twice in the UK during 2008. In the fieldwork, apart from visiting the British Library and LSE (London School of Economics) library, I interviewed some staff members of some human rights or Muslim organizations, focusing on human rights abuses against Muslim residents including refugees and migrants, and the trend of the British anti-terrorism acts. The fieldwork generated several findings. Some of them are as follows;・Muslim residents are the main victims of varied forms of human rights abuses caused by the anti-terrorism acts.・Statistically Muslim residents have much more high possibility to be a target of the stop and search by the police forces, in comparison with white residents.・After 9.11, especially the 7.7 bombings in London, there is an apparent increase in Islamophobia.・There is gender discrimination in Islamophobia.In 2009, I concentrated on analyzing data and literature collected in the fieldwork and resource search in the UK and Japan. Based on the analysis, I gave a research presentation entitled “The British Anti-Terrorism Acts after 9.11 and the Rise of Islamophobia: from Perspectives of Religious Discrimination, Racism and Civil Liberty" in the Spring Research Conference of the Peace Studies Association of Japan, which was held on 13th and 14th June 2009. Through the presentation, I managed to obtain some useful comments on the European Convention on Human Rights and some relevant questions from the discussant and participants. Based on this presentation, I wrote a Japanese article entitled “Changes to the British Anti-Terrorism Acts after 9.11 and the 7.7 Bombings and Islamophobia: the Multiplier Effects of Religious Discrimination and Racism", and it was published in the Journal of International Public Policy Studies (Vol.14, No.2, the Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University, pp.17-28) in March 2010.