Toronto and the 'Paris problem
Community Policing in 'Immigrant Neighbourhoods
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2357517 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Parastou Saberi |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 49-69 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Race & Class (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0306-3968 • E-ISSN: 1741-3125 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0306396817717892 |
| OpenAlex | W2737895325 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 11 |
Since 2005, references to the 'Paris problem' have become increasingly frequent among media pundits, urban policy-makers and police agencies to warn about the malaise of Toronto's low-income, majority non-White neighbourhoods (referred to as 'immigrant neighbourhoods'). A reference to the rebellion of the French banlieues against state power in France, the 'Paris problem' is code for the spectre of 'race riots' in Toronto. Here the author looks at the birth of the 'Paris problem' and examines the community policing strategies that were rolled out in its aftermath in Toronto. The article demonstrates how these were intertwined with urban policies of social development to which policing was integral. In this, policing needs to be understood holistically as not just coercive in function, but also as 'productive'; that is, aimed at the manufacture of consent and ultimately of pacification of unruly populations. Underpinning these processes, and also engendered by them, is a racialised and territorialised security ideology crystallised around the figure of 'the immigrant' and the conception of 'immigrant neighbourhoods'. At the heart of such policy-making is a corralling and containing of poor, working-class, ethnically defined communities - youth in particular - that serves to entrench division while maintaining heavy-handed state control
Criminology · Homecoming · Ideology · Immigration · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · Underpinning · White (mutation · Working class · Canadian Identity and History · Gender Studies · History · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions
Breach and Clear
From Crisis to Cuffs
“I am a Black man in Canada! I wish I could say differently!”
Policing the Uptown
State, space and secularism
Seeing like a Zone
Colonial Aphasia and the Circuits of Whiteness in Inclusive and Anti-Racist Youth Social Policy
Rescaling the Sanctuary City
Anti-Black residential preferences in Toronto
Visual Negotiations of Gentrification in Toronto
Toronto's drug policy paradox
High-risk operation
Community policing in racialized communities
| Citations per year | 1.63 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |