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.

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.

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