Racism, Crisis, Brexit

Virdee, Satnam; McGeever, Brendan

doi:10.1080/01419870.2017.1361544

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“…There is emerging research highlighting the importance of race frames when discussing how race is understood in society (Warikoo and de Novais ). In this article, ‘race’ is fundamentally related to power.…”

Section: Counter‐terrorism Race and Health Carementioning

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Islamophobia in the National Health Service: an ethnography of institutional racism in PREVENT's counter‐radicalisation policy

Younis

Jadhav

2019

Sociology Health & Illness

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In 2015, the UK government made its counter‐radicalisation policy a statutory duty for all National Health Service (NHS) staff. Staff are now tasked to identify and report individuals they suspect may be vulnerable to radicalisation. Prevent training employs a combination of psychological and ideological frames to convey the meaning of radicalisation to healthcare staff, but studies have shown that the threat of terrorism is racialised as well. The guiding question of our ethnography is: how is counter‐radicalisation training understood and practiced by healthcare professionals? A frame analysis draws upon 2 years of ethnographic fieldwork, which includes participant observation in Prevent training and NHS staff interviews. This article demonstrates how Prevent engages in performative colour‐blindness – the active recognition and dismissal of the race frame which associates racialised Muslims with the threat of terrorism. It concludes with a discussion of institutional racism in the NHS – how racialised policies like Prevent impact the minutia of clinical interactions; how the pretence of a ‘post‐racial’ society obscures institutional racism; how psychologisation is integral to the performance of colour‐blindness; and why it is difficult to address the racism associated with colourblind policies which purport to address the threat of the Far‐Right.

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Section: Counter‐terrorism Race and Health Carementioning

confidence: 99%

Islamophobia in the National Health Service: an ethnography of institutional racism in PREVENT's counter‐radicalisation policy

Younis

Jadhav

2019

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…Thus, postcolonial theories provide insights into how the ethnocentric and orientalist assumptions that underpin popular conceptions of culture are designed to facilitate hegemony and control such that those of non-Western origin have a greater struggle to establish their credibility and legitimacy (see Cooke, 2003;Frenkel & Shenhav, 2006;Prasad, 2003). This can be understood alongside the discrimination in the external organisational context, where recent discourses in Britain and other parts of Europe and North America have contributed to the reinvigoration of wider societal processes of othering in ways that have pernicious consequences for EM groups (e.g., Bernhardt, 2015;Bobo, 2017;DeGenova, 2010;Pitcher, 2009;Virdee & McGeever, 2017).…”

Section: Recruitment and Selectionmentioning

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The uneasy alliance of organisational culture and equal opportunities for ethnic minority groups: A British example

Ogbonna

2019

Human Res Mgmt Journal

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Recent statistics suggest that there is a continuing disparity in labour market outcomes between ethnic minority (EM) groups and their White counterparts. However, although there is now an abundance of statistical and anecdotal evidence that speaks to the disadvantage of EM groups, there is less understanding of the intraorganisational dynamics that give rise to the outcomes that are reported. Drawing on postcolonial, cultural capital, and social capital theories, this article argues that the dominant approach through which organisational culture is conceptualised and the ways in which it is commonly managed may encourage labour market inequality and disadvantage for EM groups (defined as access to employment and having opportunities for promotion while in employment). The article explores three intraorganisational interventions that are common in culture management initiatives (leadership, selective recruitment, and internal promotion) to illustrate the arguments. The article concludes by discussing a series of implications and highlighting the pivotal role of the HR academy and practitioners in generating deeper insights and attention into the potential sources of EM disadvantage that are linked to culture and culture management.

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“…At the same time, they may also have to deal with the reactions of White students who may well have had no experience of the multi-ethnic culture of Britain as it exists primarily in the large cities. Given these choices, differences in applicant success by ethnicity (Boliver, 2016), and the cultural and political context of race relations in the era of Trump and Brexit (Virdee & McGeever, 2017), it is little surprise that many students of colour prefer to stay at a local university, often with lower entry requirements, where they will not be made to feel out of place. This puts the onus on universities, especially those situated in White-dominated areas or that have a predominantly White intake, to think through how students of colour experience campus life.…”

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The spatial dynamics of race in the transition to university: Diverse cities and White campuses in U.K. higher education

Gamsu

Donnelly

Harris

2018

Population Space and Place

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Using exceptionally detailed administrative data on all 412,000 students attending university in the United Kingdom in 2014–2015 combined with spatial census data from 2011, we explore for the first time how the ethnic composition of where students grow up is linked to where they attend university. We calculate a “diversity score” for every U.K. university, which is then compared with the ethnic diversity of the surrounding area, allowing us to explore the institutional geography of ethnicity in U.K. universities. These scores provide the basis for a multilevel analysis of factors influencing whether students move towards more or less ethnically diverse universities than where they have grown up. White students are more likely than their ethnic‐minority peers to move towards a university that is more diverse than their home neighbourhood. We thus explore how students' mobility decisions for university are influenced by the uneven geography of race in U.K. cities and universities.

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Racism, Crisis, Brexit

Cited by 298 publications

References 24 publications

Islamophobia in the National Health Service: an ethnography of institutional racism in PREVENT's counter‐radicalisation policy

Islamophobia in the National Health Service: an ethnography of institutional racism in PREVENT's counter‐radicalisation policy

The uneasy alliance of organisational culture and equal opportunities for ethnic minority groups: A British example

The spatial dynamics of race in the transition to university: Diverse cities and White campuses in U.K. higher education

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