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Following our regular 'Spotlight' feature, which this time features the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University, this issue's Research Round-up includes six contributions around the theme of 'race' and racism. It begins with a contribution from the Policy Studies Institute highlighting their recent research on young people facing multiple disadvantage. About half of those interviewed in the study were from a minority ethnic group and some were care-leavers. The next contribution, from Gary Craig, focuses solely on excluded black and Asian young people but once again an important sub-group of these were care-leavers, underlining the importance of considering this issue.
The contribution from Ian Law details a range of work into racism, ethnicity and benefits that is taking place at the University of Leeds and the next contribution, from Karl Atkin, spotlights one of these studies in particular: social security and haemoglobin disorders.
The last two contributions focus on particular minority groups: Chinese older people (Ruby C.M. Chau and Sam W.K. Yu) and South Asian Muslims (Ambreen Shah). This last contribution concerns the way South Asian Muslims understand their rights and duties as British citizens. This work is part of Ambreen Shah's doctoral thesis and is a particularly important study given debates stemming from the current conflict in Afghanistan.
Due to the large number of contributions on the theme of 'race' and racism (and there are more to come in the next issue) there has been no space for contributions on other issues but we have provided a research listings of some of the research from the Department for Work and Pensions. This includes a range of work on people with disabilities and the benefit system, as well as research on pensioners' incomes and the effects of ONE.

Prison Round Trip is a reflection on prison life and how to keep one's sanity and political integrity behind bars. Grappling with themes of consciousness, the nature of freedom, and what it means to be alive, Klaus Viehmann wrote this essay ten years after being released from prison, having completed a 15-year sentence for his involvement in urban guerrilla activities in Germany. The preface by political prisoner Bill Dunne, held by the U.S. government for over thirty years now, shows that the nature of imprisonment, and the ways in which the human spirit can transcend it, are universal.