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- Title
Publicizing insecurity, privatizing security: Chinese wholesalers' surveillance cameras in a Paris suburb (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate).
- Authors
Trémon, Anne-Christine
- Abstract
Since the early nineties, several hundreds of Chinese immigrants have settled in what has become known as the 'Chinese wholesalers area'. For the past two years, Chinese wholesalers in Aubervilliers have been calling on public authorities to address the problem of street robberies and violent thefts, which they experience on a daily basis. Yet, they have been encouraged by the authorities to ensure their own protection, by - amongst other things - installing surveillance cameras to film the streets. This is illegal according to French legislation on camera surveillance. Knowing this, why have surveillance cameras been adopted as a solution? This question guides the ethnographic analysis presented here of a situation where the installation of surveillance cameras was locally negotiated by the main actors involved - namely, the wholesalers' representatives and the police.
- Subjects
AUBERVILLIERS (France); CHINESE people; IMMIGRANTS; DISTRIBUTORS (Commerce); GOVERNMENT corporations; ROBBERY -- Law &; legislation; TELEVISION in security systems; FINANCE
- Publication
Anthropology Today, 2013, Vol 29, Issue 4, p17
- ISSN
0268-540X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-8322.12045