The Police and Identity Phenomena in French Suburbs: Between Ethnicity and Territory : A Focus Group Study
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2016
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racialization discrimination suburbs racism police segregationSujets proches
Police forces Policemen Gendarmes Cops Law enforcement officers Officers, Law enforcement Officers, Police Police officers Policing Police--Legal status, laws, etc Police serviceCiter ce document
Guillaume Roux et al., « The Police and Identity Phenomena in French Suburbs: Between Ethnicity and Territory : A Focus Group Study », Revue française de science politique, ID : 10670/1.20cec5...
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An analysis of four focus groups (young adults and adults) demonstrates that whilst the majority White group does not identify with the local neighborhood and holds positive attitudes toward the police (ATP), ATP among ethnic minorities are based on collective conflict. However, attitude construction differs between young people and adults. Strong identification with “the hood” is key to young people since it combines with a sense of ethnic identity and engenders an adversarial image of police. For adults, discussion of the police creates an identification with the neighborhood which isn’t otherwise in evidence. These findings underline the role of the relationship with police in the production of ethnicity in France: it contributes to the construction of the “minorities of the suburbs”, and of an ethno-territorial identity.
