![]() It is within this larger framework that the layers of policing as deployed by the state are exposed. ![]() Farhana Ibrahim argues that policing is more of an embodied social practice than merely a state institution (p. 3). Her latest book draws upon almost two decades of ethnographic work in Kutch, Gujarat. Being a social anthropologist, she takes a keen interest in issues concerning borders, policing, migration and ethnographic perspectives on the state. Moving away from the statist understanding of policing and migration (Sadiq 2008 Baruah 1999), Farhana Ibrahim’s recent work From Family to Police Force: Security and Belonging on a South Asian Border is an engaging anthropological take on policing and its everyday reflections on a South Asian borderland. ![]() In this way, the borders become sites of ample securitization and surveillance. It needs no reiteration that the state, being its most “vulnerable” at the margins, tries to police and control the borders under its piercing gaze. 1 Policing and surveillance have more often than not been associated with the larger institutional framework of the state.
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