This book identifies new formations of race, racism and ethnicity at the intersection of neoliberalism, security, urban governance and the law through a comparative, international analysis of police organizations and practices.

This book was published as a special issue of Race and Ethnic Studies.

Paul Amar is Associate Professor in the Global & International Studies Program, with appointments in Sociology, Feminist Studies, Latin American Studies and Middle East Studies, at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

1. Introduction: New Racial Missions of Policing Paul Amar 2. Policing and Racialization of Rural Migrant Workers in Chinese Cities Dong Han 3. Geographies of Death: An Intersectional Analysis of Police Lethality and the Racialized Regimes of Citizenship in São Paulo João Costa Vargas and Jaime Amparo Alvez 4. Order and Security in the City: Producing Race and Policing Neoliberal Spaces in South Africa Tony Roshan Samara 5. Police Marginality, Racial Logics, and Discrimination in the Banlieues of France Sophie Body-Gendrot 6. The Bosnian Police, Multi-Ethnic Democracy, and the Race of 'European Civilization' Ann Janette Rosga 7. Counting Bodies: Crime Mapping, Policing and Race in Colombia Eduardo Moncada 8. Concept, Category and Claim: Insights on Caste and Ethnicity from the Police in India Anasuya Sengupta