Essays about: "ethnic profiling"

Found 3 essays containing the words ethnic profiling.

  1. 1. "No Justice, No Peace, No Racist Police" : A diachronic comparative study and analysis of the power relations revealed in French media discourses

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Julie Alves Canteiro; [2021]
    Keywords : Police violence; power relations; racial profiling; media and communication; France;

    Abstract : On May 26th, 2020, the world was shocked after learning that George Floyd had died at the hands of the police while being wrongfully arrested. Protests took place worldwide, demanding justice for Floyd as well as the end of the systematic racism present institutionally in police forces. READ MORE

  3. 2. Ethnic profiling in Sweden – can it be legalised through the test of proportionality?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Elin Sjöberg; [2019]
    Keywords : EU-rätt; Etnisk profilering; etnisk diskriminering; Artikel 14 EKMR; polis; EU law; Ethnic profiling; Racial profiling; Article 14 ECHR; police; Law enforcement; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : I USA och Storbritannien är termer såsom “driving while black” (översatt ungefär till ”vara mörkhyad och köra bil”) välkända och båda länderna kräver att deras polismyndigheter samlar in data rörande polisens arbete och etnicitet. Detsamma går inte att säga gällande Sverige där termen ”etnisk profilering” inte är lika välkänd. READ MORE

  4. 3. Policing Swedishness: Analysing discourses of suspicion in police narratives on internal controls of foreigners

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Sarah Philipson; [2016]
    Keywords : Internal controls of foreigners; Sweden; border control; mobility; ethnic profiling; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Based on a discourse analysis of police narratives on internal controls of foreigners, this thesis examines how discourses of suspicion are produced within policing. Methodologically and empirically engaging with interviews with police officers operating throughout Sweden, and theoretically drawing on the diffused practices of mobility management, the analysis shows that the police officers practice of internal controls of foreigners are guided by an insufficient frame of regulation. READ MORE