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<p>1 Researching the links between police, politics, immigration and crime.- 2 Police, politics, immigration and crime: A state of the art.- 3 The crime that travels.- 4 The language of the numbers.- 5 Mean streets.- 6 Violence.- 7 Change of attitudes.- 8 The role of politics.- 9 Vulnerability.</p>

<p>Federico Luis Abiuso is Postdoctoral Fellow at Instituto de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales del Litoral, in Social Sciences (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Professor of Social Research Methodology at the University of Buenos Aires and University of Belgrano, Argentina.</p><p><br></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br></p>

This book examines the relationship between immigration, crime, police and politics in the city of Buenos Aires during the&nbsp;<em>Cambiemos ("Let's Change")</em>&nbsp;administration, which took place in Argentina between 2015 and 2019. It draws on semi-structured interviews with migrants to offer insights into interactions between police and migrants, narratives of police violence, police attitudes towards migrants, the nexus between police and politics and the perception of the vulnerability of the migratory community of belonging to police action. Using a mixed methods approach, it also draws on secondary quantitative data regarding police practices of detention of migrants and examines political discourses around the immigration-crime association. In essence, it discusses the changes in attitude of the police towards different ethnic-national groups during the administration&nbsp;<em>Cambiemos</em>. In this sense, it presents empirical research and methodological insights from theGlobal South.<div><br></div><div><b>Federico Luis Abiuso</b> is Postdoctoral Fellow at Instituto de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales del Litoral, in Social Sciences (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Professor of Social Research Methodology at the University of Buenos Aires and University of Belgrano, Argentina.<br></div>

Analyses the immigration policies enacted primarily by law enforcement agencies Examines the political rhetoric during Mauricio Macri’s presidential term Provides insights for other researchers looking to explore this nexus in other countries