Diversity Policing–Policing Diversity: Performing Ethnicity in Police and Private-Security Work in Sweden

摘要: This article draws upon two separate studies on policing in Sweden, both investigating “ethnic diversity” as a discourse and practice the performance of functions: one interview study with minority police officers from county authority ethnographic private security officers. To examine how “diversity policing” “policing are performed by actors, their strategic reliance an ethnically diverse workforce is examined. The official contexts stressed valuable resource for effective execution tasks legitimation functions. There was, however, also another, more unofficial ethnicity that heavily influenced agents’ day-to-day work. resulting involved situated activities ground through which “foreign elements” population were policed using ethnicized stereotypes. Diversity promoted ethnic matching, which, ironically, turn perpetuated stereotypical thinking about Swedish “others”. A conceptual framework developed understanding strategies disjuncture found between widely accepted rationalities recruiting realities workforce’s deployment at street level.