Colourblindness across borders: The de-racialized logics of Dutch and American border agents
This article illustrates how US Border Patrol agents and Dutch Military and Border Police officers explain racialized border control outcomes, through colourblind ideologies. These ideologies—legalism, criminalization and securitization—function as euphemisms that allow border agents to downplay the importance of immigrants’ race/ethnicity in their decision making and behaviour. Yet, underlying these colourblind ideologies are racialized immigration laws and social constructions that continue to produce group-based inequalities in who is questioned, arrested, detained and removed by border gua... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2023 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Theoretical Criminology ; ISSN 1362-4806 1461-7439 |
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SAGE Publications
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Schlagwörter: | Law / Sociology and Political Science / Pathology and Forensic Medicine |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26670804 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13624806231209997 |