“…As with other forms of domestic labor such as cleaning, cooking, ironing, gardening, driving, and looking after children, security care work reflects wider conditions of structural racism in Brazil and is generally performed by low‐income Northeastern migrants in São Paulo, many of Afro‐Brazilian descent. As a mode of protection, it draws on both on long‐standing cultural notions of cordiality and on the racialized, gendered, and classed labor of low‐level security guards themselves (Durão, Robb Larkins, and Fischmann, 2021, 14). We call this variety of security hospitality security (Robb Larkins, 2017), defining it as a combination of infrastructure, technology, and human labor deployed to produce a certain kind of urban space for middle‐ and upper‐class subjects.…”