‘It’s like crossing a border everyday’: Police-migrant encounters in a postcolonial city
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How are migrant communities policed in cities of the Global South where racially securitized discourses and colonial institutional legacies shape contemporary police practice? Critical criminologists advise that postcolonial perspectives offer valuable insights on imperial legacies, while allowing us to expand conceptual empirical analyses crime, policing, justice, social order. Building this agenda, paper explores intersection policing immigration enforcement context urban encounters between officers Afghan Bengali migrants Pakistan. It considers how securitization migration impacts their routine interactions with street-level officers. Based ethnographic findings from Karachi, argues can be captured by what I call “postcolonial condition policing” wherein prejudiced security policies enable expansions power without addressing structural inequalities within police, facilitating reliance upon informal procedures practices.
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Urban Affairs
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1467-9906', '0735-2166']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2022.2091448