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Dan Godshaw

@dangodshaw.bsky.social

Lecturer in Criminology at University of Bristol, @uob-policystudies.bsky.social. Researcher of migration, borders, immigration detention, racism, masculinities and state violence. Member of @mmbuob.bsky.social

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Dan Godshaw@dangodshaw.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Immigration officers "conspired together to steal cash from migrants on small boats" and "worked together to take money and share it out". This is symptomatic of an immigration regime that encourages the degradation and exploitation of people seeking safety www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Border staff who 'stole cash from small boat migrants' are bailed

Officials appear in court charged with stealing from small boat arrivals and money laundering.

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Bristol University Press Journals @bupjournals.bsky.social · last yr.

⚡The racist politics of the 2024 UK riots - ‘The true culprits are not rioters but capitalism and the state’ Read this valuable new intervention piece here:

Neither mindless nor legitimate: the racist politics of the 2024 UK riots and the limitations of the carceral response

In early August 2024, the UK experienced a wave of fascist violence of the kind not witnessed since the 1980s. In this intervention piece written soon after these events, we seek to understand what…

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Dan Godshaw@dangodshaw.bsky.social · 2y ago

After some delays it’s great to see this published! We sketch out our concept of paradoxical representation by focusing on gendered racisms in the immigration politics of Sunak, Braverman, Badenoch, Patel. Thanks @drshardiabpalmer.bsky.social @mikebankole.bsky.social @politicsgenderj.bsky.social

Politics & Gender@politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 In their new Critical Perspectives article Neema Begum, Michael Bankole, Shardia Briscoe-Palmer, @dangodshaw.bsky.social & Rima Saini introduce the concept paradoxical representation to understand the actions of ethnic minority officeholders. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Critical perspective article entitled "Skinfolk, but Not Kinfolk? Paradoxical Representation Among Ethnic Minority Conservative Political Elites in the UK" by Neema Begum, Michael Bankole, Shardia Briscoe-Palmer, Dan Godshaw & Rima Saini. First paragraph reads: As the number of ethnic minority politicians increase across countries like the United Kingdom and the United States, so too have instances in which these officeholders act against the communities they descriptively represent. In this contribution, we introduce the concept of paradoxical representation which we argue functions through neoliberal, post-racial scripts of color-blindness and meritocracy. Similar to research on gender representation which calls into question assumptions that substantive representation will follow unproblematically from women’s descriptive representation (Celis and Childs 2012), we argue that ethnic minority representatives can act as “post-racial gatekeepers.” This means paradoxically working against rather than for marginalized ethnic minority groups (Saini, Bankole, and Begum 2023). Through political discourse and policymaking, these representatives construct and “gatekeep” hegemonic ideas around race, racism, gender, and migration.