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.

Introduction Policing differences: perspectives from Europe - Jan Beek, Thomas Bierschenk and Annalena Kolloch Part I: Categorizations of difference in police work 1 Police racism in France and Germany: occupational socialisation and institutional guidelines - Jérémie Gauthier and Jacques de Maillard2 Policing order: ethnicity in statistics and the functions of nationalism - Rebecca Pates3 Predictively policed: the Dutch CAS case and its forerunners - Paul Mutsaers and Tom van Nuenen 4 The social construction of parallel society in Swedish police documents - Ida NafstadPart II: Doing differences in everyday policing5 Dirty Harry gone global? On globalising policing and punitive impotence - David Sausdal 6 Instrumentalising racism in Russian policing: everyday interactions between police officers and migrants - Ekaterina Khodzhaeva 7 Negotiating with ethnic diversity: perceptions and patterns in everyday police work in Germany - Nina Müller 8 'Do you understand? Yes, you understand.': bureaucratic translations of difference during deportation talks in Switzerland - Lisa Marie BorrelliPart III: Policing as translation 9 Inclusive and non-inclusive modes of communication in multilingual operational police training - Annalena Kolloch and Bernd Meyer 10 Talking with hands and feet: language differences and translation in German policing - Jan Beek and Marcel Müller 11 The Portuguese police and colonial legacies: when language divides - Susana DurãoPart IV: Police officers and ethnographers 12 Albanian culture and major crime: challenging culturalist assumptions among investigating UK police - Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers13 Approaching foreign milieus: experiences from a joint seminar with police trainees and anthropology students - Gisela Pauli Caldas and Thomas Widlok PostfaceAuthorizing race: on police reproduction of difference - Ian Loader