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Policing Race, Ethnicity and Culture

Ethnographic Perspectives Across Europe

Bernd Meyer editor Jan Beek editor Thomas Bierschenk editor Annalena Kolloch editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Manchester University Press

Published:28th Mar '23

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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.

'This book is a recommended study that nicely incorporates anthropology, criminology, history, linguistics, and sociology.'
Ryan Shaffer, Ethnic and Racial Studies

ISBN: 9781526165589

Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm

Weight: 667g

352 pages