Policing and human rights

This text is derived from presentations made by the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) at an international conference on racism, racial discrimination and related intolerance held in Durban in 2001. Ten contributions written by 17 international academics and researchers are organized into two sections addressing racism and citizenship, and racism and social justice. A sampling of topics: the historical construction of race and citizenship in the U.S.; migrant workers and xenophobia in the Middle East; policing and human rights; Malaysia's new economic policy and "national unity"; the politics of land distribution and race relations in Southern Africa; and race, gender and social policy in Aotearoa/New Zealand