Policing race, ethnicity and culture: Ethnographic perspectives across Europe

Policing race, ethnicity and culture: Ethnographic perspectives across Europe
ISBN-10
1526165570
ISBN-13
9781526165572
Category
Social Science
Pages
407
Language
English
Published
2023-03-28
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Authors
Bernd Meyer, Jan Beek, Thomas Bierschenk

Description

How to deal with differences based on culture, ethnicity and race, has become a key issue of policing. This edited collected explores everyday, often mundane interactions between police officers and migrantised actors in European countries and asks how both sides deal with perceived differences. The contributions reflect that such differences are not just ‘out there’ but are being situationally (re-)produced in police-citizen encounters. By taking a comparative approach, the book develops a distinctly European perspective on these questions. The book contains 12 ethnographies from ten European countries, based on new and often innovative empirical research, two theoretical contributions, an introduction and a postface.

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