Moral Panic in the Media: Scapegoating South Asian Men in Cases of Sexual Exploitation and Grooming

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‘They Wouldn’t Believe Me’: Giving a Voice to British South Asian Male Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

“…British South Asian men are often seen as embodying an 'assertive and deviant masculinity' (Kalra 2009: 115), feeding into the hypermasculinised perception of this group. More recently, , Gill and Day (2020) have explored negative media representations of British South Asian men in the wake of the Rochdale sexual exploitation case (and subsequent similar cases). They argue that negative media portrayals of the alleged perpetrators in these cases reinforced culturally specific misconceptions of British South Asian masculinity.…”