The Disappearing State and the Quasi‐Event of Immigration Control

Coleman, Mat; Stuesse, Angela

doi:10.1111/anti.12209

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“…The police training manuals that we relied on in our book to illustrate this practice drew advice and guidance from police departments of virtually every size in all regions of the country (2014,(22)(23). Recent ethnographic studies that follow up on our research observe investigatory stops in many jurisdictions in North Carolina (Coleman and Stuesse 2015 ) and in Nashville, Tennessee (Armenta 2016a(Armenta , 2016b. The recent official report on problems in the Chicago police department observes high numbers of investigatory stops, especially of African Americans, in that city (Police Accountability Task Force 2016 ).…”

Section: Our Contribution: Investigatory Stops As An Institutionalizementioning

confidence: 89%

Beyond Profiling: The Institutional Sources of Racial Disparities in Policing

Epp

Maynard‐Moody

Haider‐Markel

2016

Public Administration Review

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: American policing faces a crisis of legitimacy. A key source of this crisis is a widespread police practice commonly endorsed by police leaders to fight crime. This is the investigatory stop, used to check out people who seem suspicious and to seize illegal drugs and guns and make arrests. Using data from an original scientific survey of drivers in the Kansas City metropolitan area, the authors show that racial disparities in police stops are concentrated in investigatory vehicle stops. In these stops, but not others, officers disproportionately stop African Americans and question and search them. The overwhelming majority of people stopped in this way are innocent, and the experience causes psychological harm and erodes trust in and cooperation with the police. Many of the most controversial police shootings during the past two years occurred in these stops. Reforming this practice is an essential step toward restoring trust in the police. Practitioner Points• Although evidence of their effectiveness is not clear, investigatory police stops (commonly using minor violations as a pretext for a more searching inquiry) are widely used by local police departments as a crimefighting tactic.• Most people stopped in investigatory stops are innocent, yet they are subjected to intrusive questioning (e.g., "Why are you in the neighborhood?") and searches, leading to feelings of fear and of being "violated." • Overuse of investigatory police stops erodes trust in, and cooperation with, the police, especially among African Americans, who are especially likely to be stopped.• There is insufficient oversight of the practice, as many investigatory stops yield no citation and so are not presently recorded or reported.• To enable oversight of this practice, law enforcement agencies should require officers to record and report all stops they make, including the race and ethnicity of the driver and whether a warning or citation is issued; these data should be analyzed to check for patterns of racial disparity. Surveys of satisfaction with police services should include questions regarding residents' experiences in police stops, including stops for minor violations. Charles R. Epp Steven Maynard-Moody Donald Haider-MarkelUniversity of Kansas P olicing in the United States is in crisis, a "perfect storm" of popular protest and media coverage of egregious violations (Weitzer 2015 , 475). Since the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, over the shooting death of Michael Brown on August 9, 2014, protests have erupted in Baltimore, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Madison, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New York City, Oakland, St. Louis, Tulsa, and such smaller places as Hempstead, Texas; North Charleston, South Carolina; Pasco, Washington; and Stonewall, Mississippi. The relationship between the police and these communities, so essential to public safety and the rights and dignity of members of the public, is strained, if not broken. Nor is the problem isolated locally. A recent national survey found that 84 percent...

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Section: Our Contribution: Investigatory Stops As An Institutionalizementioning

confidence: 89%

Beyond Profiling: The Institutional Sources of Racial Disparities in Policing

Epp

Maynard‐Moody

Haider‐Markel

2016

Public Administration Review

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“…Through the use of extraterritorial processing, offshore detention centers, and interdiction programs, migrants and asylum seekers are immobilized before they reach their intended destinations to seek asylum (Burridge and others ). Borders are also internalized within states through practices such as mandatory and indefinite detention, workplace raids, traffic stops, and multiscalar legal formations (Coleman and Stuesse ; Maldonado and others ; Hiemstra and Conlon ; Gorman ). Bordering, thus, can move to “where the migrant is” (Casas‐Cortes and others, , 73, quoted in Burridge and others , 242).…”

Section: Connecting To 2019mentioning

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Contemporary Refugee‐Border Dynamics and the Legacies of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference ⋆

Culcasi

Skop

Gorman

2019

Geographical Review

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While the geopolitical legacies of the World War I peace negotiations are widely recognized, this article examines the often overlooked connection between the WWI Paris Peace Conference's spatial and geopolitical logics and contemporary refugee‐border dynamics. We argue that the spatial and geopolitical logics that framed the WWI Paris Peace Conference—the creation of new states, the propagation of the Western ideal of bounded sovereign states, the nationalist goals of self‐determination and homogeneous ethnic nations, and the establishment of a system of international governance—continue to impact refugee‐border dynamics and “crises” today. The categories, ideals, and practices of the international refugee regime that emerged over the last one‐hundred years stem in great part from these logics. In this paper, we urge critical contemplation about how these foundations—including the establishment of the post of High Commissioner for Refugees in 1921, the resultant Nansen Passports, the post‐WWI minority treaties, and lastly the 1933 Convention Relating to the International Status of Refugees—connect to contemporary human (im)mobility and border violence. We also introduce the articles in this special issue and highlight key themes and future directions for research in critical migration studies.

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“…Drawing on the work of Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson on borders and labour, 45 as well as that from Étienne Balibar on border zones, 46 Coleman and Stuesse are keen to stress the interrelationship between both topographical and topological forms of control in border practices, arguing that borders should be explored "not as perimetrical limit points but also as spaces of (policed) residence." 47 This notion of spaces of policed residence is one I want to take forward for an analysis of the socio-politics of walls. In so doing, we see how, to borrow from Coleman and Steusse, walls 'police 'things' and 'people' as much as they police edges,' 48 bringing to the fore the coterminous relationship between the policing of people and things at the edges and the policing of people and things in the interior.…”

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Bridging the Divide: Middle Eastern Walls and Fences and the Spatial Governance of Problem Populations

Pallister‐Wilkins

2015

Geopolitics

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Building on a long history of spatial control through walling in the region, walls and fences have been built in the Middle East in recent years to undertake a range of practices. Gated communities, residential and security compounds, anti-migrant walls, separation barriers and counter-insurgency fences can all be found in the Middle East. These walls address and govern problems that take the population as their subject. These walls all share a common frame of viewing the populations they work to govern as 'problematic' in multiple ways. This paper explores how walls have been and continue to be used in governing populations through mobility and incorporating a combination of disciplinary and biopolitical techniques through a range of spatial and territorial repertoires. As such it works to bridge the divide in border studies and critical security studies between geopolitical/topographical and biopolitical/topological approaches to borders and governance.

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The Disappearing State and the Quasi‐Event of Immigration Control

Cited by 60 publications

References 42 publications

Beyond Profiling: The Institutional Sources of Racial Disparities in Policing

Beyond Profiling: The Institutional Sources of Racial Disparities in Policing

Contemporary Refugee‐Border Dynamics and the Legacies of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference ⋆

Bridging the Divide: Middle Eastern Walls and Fences and the Spatial Governance of Problem Populations

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