Between Care and Criminality

Marriage, Citizenship, and Family in Australian Social Welfare

HELENA ZEWERI

Between Care and Criminality examines social welfare’s encounter with migration and marriage in a period of intensified border control in Melbourne, Australia. It offers an in-depth ethnographic account of the effort to prevent forced marriage in the aftermath of a 2013 law that criminalized the practice. Disproportionately targeted toward Muslim migrant communities, prevention efforts were tasked with making the family relations and marital practices of migrants objects of policy knowledge in the name of care and community empowerment. Through tracing the everyday ways that direct service providers, police, and advocates learned to identify imminent marriages and at-risk individuals, this book reveals how the domain of social welfare becomes the new frontier where the settler colonial state judges good citizenship. In doing so, it invites social welfare to reflect on how migrant conceptions of familial care, personhood, and mutual obligation become structured by the violence of displacement, borders, and conditional citizenship.

HELENA ZEWERI is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia–Vancouver and affiliate faculty with the UBC Centre for Migration Studies.

Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts

Race and Police

The Origin of Our Peculiar Institutions

BEN BRUCATO

“Brucato’s focus on the political construction of race in and through police does more than simply correct or reorder the narratives on race and policing, but fundamentally defines them. Race and Police makes clear contributions that are long overdue in the field.”

—Mike King, author of When Riot Cops Are Not Enough: The Policing and Repression of Occupy Oakland

In the United States, race and police were founded along with a capitalist economy dependent on the enslavement of workers of African descent. Race and Police builds a critical theory of American policing by analyzing a heterodox history of policing, drawn from the historiography of slavery and slave patrols. Beginning by tracing the historical origins of the police mandate in British colonial America, the book shows that the peculiar institution of racialized chattel slavery originated along with a novel, binary conception of race. On one side, for the first time Europeans from various nationalities were united in a single racial category. Inclusion in this category was necessary for citizenship. On the other, Blacks were branded as slaves, cast as social enemies, and assumed to be threats to the social order.

BEN BRUCATO is an interdisciplinary theorist of race and police and a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Critical Issues in Crime and Society

220 pp 6 b/w images, 6.125 x 9.25 978-1-9788-2902-2 paper

978-1-9788-2903-9

December, 2023

Anthropology • Marriage and Families

Religion

266 pages 6 x 9

978-1-9788-3448-4 paper $34.95S 978-1-9788-3449-1 cloth $120.00SU

September 2023

Criminal Justice • U.S. History

234 pp 2 color images, 3 tables 6 x 9

978-1-9788-3330-2 paper $32.95S

978-1-9788-3331-9 cloth $120.00SU

September 2023

Human Rights • Criminal Justice Sociology