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oapen-20.500.12657-488802021-06-02T00:45:29Z Un/doing Ethnicity im öffentlichen Dienst Piñeiro, Esteban Koch, Martina Pasche, Nathalie public service, police force, youth welfare, ethnic differentiation bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JK Social services & welfare, criminology "How does public administration deal with a population that it perceives as diverse? Which ethnic differentiations are either produced by everyday concrete administra-tive actions or blurred in the sense of undoing ethnicity? Two intervening street-level bureaucracies are examined, a municipal youth welfare office and the police of a medium-sized town. The focus is on the close intertwining of ethnicizations with social work and with police categorizations and work practices. Ethnic attributions in social work and in police work can come into play when they are considered purposeful, opportune, helpful or effective in everyday work. At first glance, the official approach to ethnicity appears ambivalent and diffuse, and the intervention of the youth welfare office and the police in this regard appears intrans-parent and unpredictable. However, emphasizing or overlooking ethnic differences follows an instrumental logic, which can ultimately lead to the concealment or rein-forcement of state intervention. " 2021-06-01T09:21:16Z 2021-06-01T09:21:16Z 2021 book 9783037771969 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48880 ger Social Cohesion and Cultural Pluralism application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International oa_9783037777671.pdf https://www.seismoverlag.ch/de/daten/un-doing-ethnicity-im-offentlichen-dienst/ Seismo 10.33058/seismo.30767 10.33058/seismo.30767 2a4e97ae-726c-4086-a24b-d4536718a4a8 9783037771969 152 open access
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"How does public administration deal with a population that it perceives as diverse? Which ethnic differentiations are either produced by everyday concrete administra-tive actions or blurred in the sense of undoing ethnicity?
Two intervening street-level bureaucracies are examined, a municipal youth welfare office and the police of a medium-sized town. The focus is on the close intertwining of ethnicizations with social work and with police categorizations and work practices. Ethnic attributions in social work and in police work can come into play when they are considered purposeful, opportune, helpful or effective in everyday work. At first glance, the official approach to ethnicity appears ambivalent and diffuse, and the intervention of the youth welfare office and the police in this regard appears intrans-parent and unpredictable. However, emphasizing or overlooking ethnic differences follows an instrumental logic, which can ultimately lead to the concealment or rein-forcement of state intervention.
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