Abstract
<p>On the one hand European countries talk the humanitarian and cosmopolitan politics of inclusion of ethnic minorities with a battery of integration policies, on the other hand these same societies practice the policies and practices of exclusion. In this special issue we address this disjuncture and what we refer to as the European moral dilemma, in much the same way that Gunnar Myrdahl, in his influential study from 1944—<em>The</em><em> American Dilemma—</em>pointed out that the oppression of Black people living in the US was at odds with the country’s moral grounds, its founding creed that all men are created equal and are endowed “with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” (<em>Declaration of Independence</em>). This special issue does not only include articles from European contexts, however the majority are analyses of European ethnic minority policies and practices. Nonetheless, all of the articles address in different ways how the rhetoric of inclusion is all too often at odds with the practices and policies of exclusion and control. In focus is what we call the policing of ethnicity, that is, the governance of inclusion and exclusion along ethnic lines.</p>
Highlights
Introduction to the SpecialIssue “Policing Ethnicity: Between the Rhetoric of Inclusion and the Policies and Practices of Exclusion”Abby Peterson 1,* and Malin Åkerström 2Submitted: 6 July 2014 | Published: 17 September 2014Issue This editorial is part of the special issue “Policing Ethnicity: Between the Rhetoric of Inclusion and the Practices and Policies of Exclusion”, edited by Professor Abby Peterson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) and Professor Malin Åkerström (University of Lund, Sweden).On the one hand European countries talk the humanitarian and cosmopolitan politics of inclusion of ethnic minorities with a battery of integration policies, on the other hand these same societies practice the policies and practices of exclusion
In this special issue we address this disjuncture and what we refer to as the European moral dilemma, in much the same way that Gunnar Myrdahl, in his influential study from 1944—The American Dilemma—pointed out that the oppression of Black people living in the US was at odds with the country’s moral grounds, its founding creed that all men are created equal and are endowed “with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” (Declaration of Independence)
Within the nation-state there is a high degree of ethnic coding of spatial borders between urban areas perceived as more or less secure and those areas, the socio-economic marginalized housing estates with a high ethnic minority density often surrounding urban centres, where the threat of crime and the prospect of meeting violence is perceived as high
Summary
Introduction to the SpecialIssue “Policing Ethnicity: Between the Rhetoric of Inclusion and the Policies and Practices of Exclusion”Abby Peterson 1,* and Malin Åkerström 2Submitted: 6 July 2014 | Published: 17 September 2014Issue This editorial is part of the special issue “Policing Ethnicity: Between the Rhetoric of Inclusion and the Practices and Policies of Exclusion”, edited by Professor Abby Peterson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) and Professor Malin Åkerström (University of Lund, Sweden).On the one hand European countries talk the humanitarian and cosmopolitan politics of inclusion of ethnic minorities with a battery of integration policies, on the other hand these same societies practice the policies and practices of exclusion. This special issue does include articles from European contexts, the majority are analyses of European ethnic minority policies and practices.
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