Guilty by Association: About the relationship between young men with a migration background and the police in multicultural Amsterdam Nieuw-West and the impact thereof on the self-image of these young people

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2018-07-12
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This research sketched the current relationship between young people with a non-Western migration background and the police in Amsterdam Nieuw-West and the influence thereof on the self-image of these young people. Young men with a non-Western migration background come into contact more often with the police than young men without a non-Western migration background. The contact was experience rather negatively than positively and was more often initiated by the police than by the citizen. The young men with a non-Western migration background have a more negative perception of the police. The thesis shows that young people with a non-Western migration background mainly identify with the city of Amsterdam and the Dutch society. Their self-image is influenced due to negative experiences with the police. When the young men notice a police officer on the street, they are reminded of the perception they believe the police has of them, in the process in which they feel the eyes of this figure higher in power on them, they gain the feeling that they are guilty of a crime they did not commit and form themselves mentally and physically to the gaze imposed on them. Hereby, the notion of ‘interpellation’ (Althusser, 1971) can be applied
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen