Samuel Singler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1433608 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Singler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Singler |
| SIGNATURE | SINGLER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6231-7095 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Outsourcing Crimmigration Control
Digital technologies have reshaped the boundaries of criminal justice and border control. The merger of these fields has resulted in technologically mediated practices of ‘crimmigration control’ on a global level. This book examines the role of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and its Migration Information and Data Analysis System (MIDAS) in shaping these digital crimmigration control practices. Drawing on interdisciplinary scho…
Surveillance evangelism
This article contributes to criminological research on surveillance and border technologies. By analysing private security companies’ visions of future technologies as surveillance imaginaries, I argue that these companies can be conceptualized as ‘surveillance evangelists’. Rather than marketing existing technologies, surveillance evangelists aim to convince state agencies and the wider public about the desirability and plausibility of particula…
"Do It Yourself!" Pedagogical Performances, Technical Expertise, and Crimmigration Control in the IOM's Capacity-Building Practices in Nigeria
This article analyses the International Organization for Migration's (IOM) implementation of the Migration Information and Data Analysis System (MIDAS) in Nigeria.Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of performativity and pragmatism, I conceptualise MIDAS as an attempt to resolve perceived social issues relating to the postcolonial ordering of global migration using biometric data collection tools.The deployment of the system is characterised by…
Digital Colonialism Beyond Surveillance Capitalism? Coloniality of Knowledge in Nigeria's Emerging Privacy Rights Legislation and Border Surveillance Practices
This article examines the impact of privacy rights norms and North–South technological diffusion on the development of Nigeria's emerging legal regime for data governance, and the relationship between this legal regime and the digitalisation of border control in Nigeria. We show that federal data protection regulations and border control technologies in Nigeria are not characterised by the extractive logics of surveillance capitalism, which is th…
Biometric statehood, transnational solutionism and security devices
This article contributes to border criminology and transnational criminal justice research into the role of transnational actors in shaping practices of global justice, punishment and control, as well as to the criminological analysis of penal technologies. I examine the performative effects of the Migration Information and Data Analysis System (MIDAS) developed by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and I argue that these effects…
Biometric statehood, transnational solutionism and security devices
This article contributes to border criminology and transnational criminal justice research into the role of transnational actors in shaping practices of global justice, punishment and control, as well as to the criminological analysis of penal technologies. I examine the performative effects of the Migration Information and Data Analysis System (MIDAS) developed by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and I argue that these effects…
"Do It Yourself!" Pedagogical Performances, Technical Expertise, and Crimmigration Control in the IOM's Capacity-Building Practices in Nigeria
This article analyses the International Organization for Migration's (IOM) implementation of the Migration Information and Data Analysis System (MIDAS) in Nigeria.Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of performativity and pragmatism, I conceptualise MIDAS as an attempt to resolve perceived social issues relating to the postcolonial ordering of global migration using biometric data collection tools.The deployment of the system is characterised by…
Digital Colonialism Beyond Surveillance Capitalism? Coloniality of Knowledge in Nigeria's Emerging Privacy Rights Legislation and Border Surveillance Practices
This article examines the impact of privacy rights norms and North–South technological diffusion on the development of Nigeria's emerging legal regime for data governance, and the relationship between this legal regime and the digitalisation of border control in Nigeria. We show that federal data protection regulations and border control technologies in Nigeria are not characterised by the extractive logics of surveillance capitalism, which is th…
Biometric statehood, transnational solutionism and security devices
This article contributes to border criminology and transnational criminal justice research into the role of transnational actors in shaping practices of global justice, punishment and control, as well as to the criminological analysis of penal technologies. I examine the performative effects of the Migration Information and Data Analysis System (MIDAS) developed by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and I argue that these effects…
Digital Colonialism Beyond Surveillance Capitalism? Coloniality of Knowledge in Nigeria's Emerging Privacy Rights Legislation and Border Surveillance Practices
This article examines the impact of privacy rights norms and North–South technological diffusion on the development of Nigeria's emerging legal regime for data governance, and the relationship between this legal regime and the digitalisation of border control in Nigeria. We show that federal data protection regulations and border control technologies in Nigeria are not characterised by the extractive logics of surveillance capitalism, which is th…
Outsourcing Crimmigration Control
Digital technologies have reshaped the boundaries of criminal justice and border control. The merger of these fields has resulted in technologically mediated practices of ‘crimmigration control’ on a global level. This book examines the role of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and its Migration Information and Data Analysis System (MIDAS) in shaping these digital crimmigration control practices. Drawing on interdisciplinary scho…
Surveillance evangelism
This article contributes to criminological research on surveillance and border technologies. By analysing private security companies’ visions of future technologies as surveillance imaginaries, I argue that these companies can be conceptualized as ‘surveillance evangelists’. Rather than marketing existing technologies, surveillance evangelists aim to convince state agencies and the wider public about the desirability and plausibility of particula…
"Do It Yourself!" Pedagogical Performances, Technical Expertise, and Crimmigration Control in the IOM's Capacity-Building Practices in Nigeria
This article analyses the International Organization for Migration's (IOM) implementation of the Migration Information and Data Analysis System (MIDAS) in Nigeria.Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of performativity and pragmatism, I conceptualise MIDAS as an attempt to resolve perceived social issues relating to the postcolonial ordering of global migration using biometric data collection tools.The deployment of the system is characterised by…
Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Public relations (2 works)