‘It sounds like they shouldn't be here’: immigration checks on the streets of Sydney

Weber, Leanne

doi:10.1080/10439463.2011.610196

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“…And there is much to suggest that immigrant populations will have high levels of police contact, whether because police attention is concentrated on members of minority groups, a well-established phenomenon across multiple contexts (e.g. Adjami 2006;Goris et al 2009;Tóth and Kádar 2012), or as a result of the increasingly blurred lines between immigration control, law and policing ('crimmigration' -Stumpf 2006;Weber 2011;Bowling and Marks 2015). Empirical evidence concerning levels of police contact among immigrants compared with non-immigrants is mixed, however, with some studies reporting that immigrants are indeed more likely to have contact with police (Provine and Sanchez 2011;Añón et al 2013; Theodore and Habans 2016) but others finding little or no association, or even that immigrants are less likely to have police contact (Davis and Hendricks 2007;Correia 2010).…”

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Police legitimacy among immigrants in Europe: Institutional frames and group position

Bradford

Jackson

2017

European Journal of Criminology

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Recent research has begun to explore the extent to which factors beyond behaviour and performance shape the empirical legitimacy of the police. In this paper, data from the European Social Survey are used to explore the association between immigration and legitimacy. Starting from the assumption that police legitimacy will vary between immigrant and non-immigrant populations, we consider three distinct sets of variable that might explain such variation: contact with the police, group position and the change in frames of reference that the act of migration engenders. Findings suggest, first, that variables from all three groups predict legitimacy, with police contact emerging as the most important. Second, conditional on these factors there is no difference in the views of recent immigrants and their non-immigrant peers. However, other groups of immigrants – particularly those who migrated as children – tend to grant the police somewhat less legitimacy.

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Police legitimacy among immigrants in Europe: Institutional frames and group position

Bradford

Jackson

2017

European Journal of Criminology

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“…Despite the fact that immigration officers in border areas seem to play a crucial role in deciding who belongs, there have been very few empirical examinations of the decision-making processes of border policing officers (see for notable exceptions: Gilboy 1991, Pratt and Thompson 2008, Weber 2011, Pickering and Ham 2013, Casella Colombeau 2015. Meanwhile a wealth of studies has addressed decision-making processes of regular police officers, and the issue of ethno-racial profiling in stop-and-search contexts in particular (Holmberg 2000, Waddington et al 2004, Wilson et al 2004, Alpert et al 2005, Dunham 2005, Schafer et al 2006, Stroshine et al 2008, Parmar 2011, Quinton 2011, Fallik and Novak 2012, Tillyer 2012, Mutsaers 2014.…”

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(Cr)immigrant framing in border areas: decision-making processes of Dutch border police officers

Brouwer

Woude

Leun

2017

Policing and Society

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“…As Gerard and Pickering (2012) show, the exclusionary potential of border regimes not only plays out through efforts to prevent arrival but also through forms of containment upon the point of arrival and beyond. Likewise, as Weber (2011) found in her interviews with senior New South Wales police officers, the intensification of internal immigration controls has drawn the police into more routine activities which mimic those demonstrated by border officials.…”

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Border regimes and the sociology of policing

Loftus

2013

Policing and Society

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Throughout the world, resources are being shifted towards border enforcement. Along with the concerted political and financial investment afforded by states into defending territories, the apparatus of border policing comprises of numerous state agencies and an ever-expanding range of private actors and commercial bodies. Yet an examination of the culture and practices of those responsible for the routine preservation of border priorities has garnered surprisingly little attention within the sociology of policing. In this research note, I foreground an agenda intended to extend current research and reflection on the everyday policing and surveillance of borders. My starting point is that the policing of borders is undergoing significant changes but without the accompanying scrutiny by policing scholars. Drawing on examples from the USA and Europe, my overarching claim is that as policing and security governance on the border becomes more innovative and pluralistic, policing scholars need to engage in sustained ethnographic fieldwork to track how security frameworks are realised at the local level and acted out against national environments. In so doing, policing scholarship can lead the way in developing a more holistic understanding of border practices with a view to redressing the social injustice experienced by those at the receiving end of contemporary border regimes.

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‘It sounds like they shouldn't be here’: immigration checks on the streets of Sydney

Cited by 37 publications

References 12 publications

Police legitimacy among immigrants in Europe: Institutional frames and group position

Police legitimacy among immigrants in Europe: Institutional frames and group position

(Cr)immigrant framing in border areas: decision-making processes of Dutch border police officers

Border regimes and the sociology of policing

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