British media recasts Asian youth through Orientalist frames of gangs and extremism

Evidence

In news reports, Orientalist representations of Asian youth focus on “Asian gangs” and religious extremism either through the guise of Islamic movements or Hindu nationalism. These are the most recent products of a re-invigorated British Orientalism. It is equally clear from recent reports that there are small sections of the British Asian population that are participating in quite extreme nationalist movements in a translocal fashion (Bhatt, 1997). All of these formations of moral concern existed alongside fears of Asian criminality and gang formation respectively. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2969