Annalisa Pelizza
Biographic Data
| ID | 655391 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annalisa Pelizza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annalisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Pelizza |
| SIGNATURE | PELIZZA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7720-5659 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
My Documents, Check Them out: A Game-Based Method to Engage Border-Crossers in the Re-Design of Migration Infrastructures
Information infrastructures for migration management significantly affect border-crossers’ life, yet they are not considered users of those infrastructures. Drawing on material publics and design justice, we hypothesize that border-crossers should be engaged in the (re)design of the classificatory infrastructures usually deployed in migration control. To further this hypothesis we developed a collaborative, role playing, serious game which was co…
Manifesto on the Datafication of Mobility Across Borders
We present the Manifesto on the Datafication of Mobility Across Borders. Datafication is expanding the potential to produce and circulate information about people at unprecedented speed and scope. This is particularly revealed when people are “on the move” through territories of which they are not citizens. In this Manifesto, we are interested in the datafication practices and infrastructures that produce people as radical others. Practices of da…
Bridging silos or adding friction? The data work behind re-identification across interoperable data infrastructures
This paper investigates the technopolitics of identification across interoperable systems, with a particular focus on the identification of third-country nationals. In doing so, it reveals the data work required to establish and strengthen interoperability across systems. In the ongoing debate concerning interoperability's potential to bridge siloed organisations and their systems, the article focuses on iterative identification processes that ma…
From embracement to attachment: Registering people on the move and the couplings of noncitizenship and territory
This article analyzes how people on the move encounter registration infrastructures on their journey to Europe. Through the lens of three empirical cases—registration in the Eurodac system, registration in the framework of the European temporary protection directive, and national registration of migrants on Hellenic islands—we explore what we term “noncitizenship-territory couplings.” The article develops the concept of “registration as attachmen…
Telling ‘more complex stories’ of European integration: How a sociotechnical perspective can help explain administrative continuity in the Common European Asylum System
This article tries to explain an apparent paradox in the Common European Asylum System (CEAS): despite political stalemate over CEAS legislative reform and lack of trust amongst MSs, administrative cooperation shows operational continuity. Drawing on the ‘Infrastructural Europeanism’ approach, we argue that a sociotechnical perspective allows detecting the material means that operationally provide continuity to administrative action, despite poli…
Scripts of Alterity: Mapping Assumptions and Limitations of the Border Security Apparatus through Classification Schemas
This article empirically maps and compares types of knowledge produced about people on the move by the European border security apparatus. Exploring two complementary analytical moments, the article addresses the stabilization of power and contingent practices within such apparatuses. We argue, first, that analyzing classification schemas implemented in data systems used within the European apparatus can reveal assumptions and limitations about p…
Scripts of Security: Between Contingency and Obduracy
The special issue on Scripts of Security proposes to advance interdisciplinary exchanges between Science and Technology Studies and Critical Security Studies. While performativity, enactment, and intra-action have opened important questions about the messiness of security practices and the contingency of their effects, there has been less attention to the obduracy of institutionalized agency and how continuities and asymmetries of power are repro…
Data circulation and migration governance: A social-network-analysis method to track shifts in responsibilities
Inderscience is a global company, a dynamic leading independent journal publisher disseminates the latest research across the broad fields of science, engineering and technology; management, public and business administration; environment, ecological economics and sustainable development; computing, ICT and internet/web services, and related areas
Data circulation and migration governance: A social-network-analysis method to track shifts in responsibilities
Does the circulation of data of third-country nationals crossing the digitised and securitised EU border affect the distribution of responsibilities among institutions and organisations involved in EU migration governance, and, if so, how? This article proposes an innovative methodology based on social network analysis and cluster analysis to study data circulation throughout EU information systems and its effects for governance and applies it to…
The ontology explorer: A method to make visible data infrastructures for population management
This article introduces the methodology of the 'Ontology Explorer', a semantic method and JavaScript-based open-source tool to analyse data models underpinning information systems. The Ontology Explorer has been devised and developed by the authors, who recognized a need to compare data models collected in different formats and used by diverse systems. The Ontology Explorer is distinctive firstly because it supports analyses of information system…
Identification as translation: The art of choosing the right spokespersons at the securitized border
This article pursues a translational approach to the securitization of migration. It argues that sociotechnical processes of identification at the border can be conceived of as translations into legible identities of individuals who are unknown to authorities. The article contributes to the materiality debate on securitization across Critical Security Studies (CSS) and Science and Technology Studies (STS) by answering the call to conduct empirica…
Processing Alterity, Enacting Europe: Migrant Registration and Identification as Co-construction of Individuals and Polities
This article introduces the concept of “alterity processing” to account for the simultaneous enactment of individual “Others” and emergent European orders in the context of migration management. Alterity processing refers to the data infrastructures, knowledge practices, and bureaucratic procedures through which populations unknown to European actors are translated into “European-legible” identities. By drawing on fieldwork conducted in Italy and…
No disease for the others: How Covid-19 data can enact new and old alterities
The COVID-19 pandemic invites a question about how long-standing narratives of alterity and current narratives of disease are entwined and re-enacted in the diagnosis of COVID-19. In this commentary, we discuss two related phenomena that, we argue, should be taken into account in answering this question. First, we address the diffusion of pseudoscientific accounts of minorities' immunity to COVID-19. While apparently praising minorities' biologic…
Birth of a Failure: Consequences of Framing ICT Projects for the Centralization of Inter-Departmental Relations
Government information system failures are filling not only newspapers but also parliamentary and administrative reports. This article deals with a case in which information and communication technologies (ICT)–related failure claimed by the media influenced the parliamentary agenda, and intra-governmental relations. Drawing on a narrative analysis of a Dutch parliamentary commission’s hearings, it argues that the way the issue was initially fram…
Developing the Vectorial Glance: Infrastructural Inversion for the New Agenda on Government Information Systems
Integrating information systems (IS) has become a key goal for governments worldwide. Systems of "authentic registers," for instance, provide government agencies with information from databases acknowledged as the only legitimate sources of data. Concerns are thus arising about the risks for democratic accountability constituted by more and more integrated governmental IS. Studies call for a new research agenda that investigates the redistributio…
Processing Alterity, Enacting Europe: Migrant Registration and Identification as Co-construction of Individuals and Polities
This article introduces the concept of “alterity processing” to account for the simultaneous enactment of individual “Others” and emergent European orders in the context of migration management. Alterity processing refers to the data infrastructures, knowledge practices, and bureaucratic procedures through which populations unknown to European actors are translated into “European-legible” identities. By drawing on fieldwork conducted in Italy and…
Identification as translation: The art of choosing the right spokespersons at the securitized border
This article pursues a translational approach to the securitization of migration. It argues that sociotechnical processes of identification at the border can be conceived of as translations into legible identities of individuals who are unknown to authorities. The article contributes to the materiality debate on securitization across Critical Security Studies (CSS) and Science and Technology Studies (STS) by answering the call to conduct empirica…
Developing the Vectorial Glance: Infrastructural Inversion for the New Agenda on Government Information Systems
Integrating information systems (IS) has become a key goal for governments worldwide. Systems of "authentic registers," for instance, provide government agencies with information from databases acknowledged as the only legitimate sources of data. Concerns are thus arising about the risks for democratic accountability constituted by more and more integrated governmental IS. Studies call for a new research agenda that investigates the redistributio…
No disease for the others: How Covid-19 data can enact new and old alterities
The COVID-19 pandemic invites a question about how long-standing narratives of alterity and current narratives of disease are entwined and re-enacted in the diagnosis of COVID-19. In this commentary, we discuss two related phenomena that, we argue, should be taken into account in answering this question. First, we address the diffusion of pseudoscientific accounts of minorities' immunity to COVID-19. While apparently praising minorities' biologic…
Telling ‘more complex stories’ of European integration: How a sociotechnical perspective can help explain administrative continuity in the Common European Asylum System
This article tries to explain an apparent paradox in the Common European Asylum System (CEAS): despite political stalemate over CEAS legislative reform and lack of trust amongst MSs, administrative cooperation shows operational continuity. Drawing on the ‘Infrastructural Europeanism’ approach, we argue that a sociotechnical perspective allows detecting the material means that operationally provide continuity to administrative action, despite poli…
The ontology explorer: A method to make visible data infrastructures for population management
This article introduces the methodology of the 'Ontology Explorer', a semantic method and JavaScript-based open-source tool to analyse data models underpinning information systems. The Ontology Explorer has been devised and developed by the authors, who recognized a need to compare data models collected in different formats and used by diverse systems. The Ontology Explorer is distinctive firstly because it supports analyses of information system…
Scripts of Alterity: Mapping Assumptions and Limitations of the Border Security Apparatus through Classification Schemas
This article empirically maps and compares types of knowledge produced about people on the move by the European border security apparatus. Exploring two complementary analytical moments, the article addresses the stabilization of power and contingent practices within such apparatuses. We argue, first, that analyzing classification schemas implemented in data systems used within the European apparatus can reveal assumptions and limitations about p…
Birth of a Failure: Consequences of Framing ICT Projects for the Centralization of Inter-Departmental Relations
Government information system failures are filling not only newspapers but also parliamentary and administrative reports. This article deals with a case in which information and communication technologies (ICT)–related failure claimed by the media influenced the parliamentary agenda, and intra-governmental relations. Drawing on a narrative analysis of a Dutch parliamentary commission’s hearings, it argues that the way the issue was initially fram…
Scripts of Security: Between Contingency and Obduracy
The special issue on Scripts of Security proposes to advance interdisciplinary exchanges between Science and Technology Studies and Critical Security Studies. While performativity, enactment, and intra-action have opened important questions about the messiness of security practices and the contingency of their effects, there has been less attention to the obduracy of institutionalized agency and how continuities and asymmetries of power are repro…
Developing the Vectorial Glance: Infrastructural Inversion for the New Agenda on Government Information Systems
Integrating information systems (IS) has become a key goal for governments worldwide. Systems of "authentic registers," for instance, provide government agencies with information from databases acknowledged as the only legitimate sources of data. Concerns are thus arising about the risks for democratic accountability constituted by more and more integrated governmental IS. Studies call for a new research agenda that investigates the redistributio…
Birth of a Failure: Consequences of Framing ICT Projects for the Centralization of Inter-Departmental Relations
Government information system failures are filling not only newspapers but also parliamentary and administrative reports. This article deals with a case in which information and communication technologies (ICT)–related failure claimed by the media influenced the parliamentary agenda, and intra-governmental relations. Drawing on a narrative analysis of a Dutch parliamentary commission’s hearings, it argues that the way the issue was initially fram…
Processing Alterity, Enacting Europe: Migrant Registration and Identification as Co-construction of Individuals and Polities
This article introduces the concept of “alterity processing” to account for the simultaneous enactment of individual “Others” and emergent European orders in the context of migration management. Alterity processing refers to the data infrastructures, knowledge practices, and bureaucratic procedures through which populations unknown to European actors are translated into “European-legible” identities. By drawing on fieldwork conducted in Italy and…
No disease for the others: How Covid-19 data can enact new and old alterities
The COVID-19 pandemic invites a question about how long-standing narratives of alterity and current narratives of disease are entwined and re-enacted in the diagnosis of COVID-19. In this commentary, we discuss two related phenomena that, we argue, should be taken into account in answering this question. First, we address the diffusion of pseudoscientific accounts of minorities' immunity to COVID-19. While apparently praising minorities' biologic…
Identification as translation: The art of choosing the right spokespersons at the securitized border
This article pursues a translational approach to the securitization of migration. It argues that sociotechnical processes of identification at the border can be conceived of as translations into legible identities of individuals who are unknown to authorities. The article contributes to the materiality debate on securitization across Critical Security Studies (CSS) and Science and Technology Studies (STS) by answering the call to conduct empirica…
The ontology explorer: A method to make visible data infrastructures for population management
This article introduces the methodology of the 'Ontology Explorer', a semantic method and JavaScript-based open-source tool to analyse data models underpinning information systems. The Ontology Explorer has been devised and developed by the authors, who recognized a need to compare data models collected in different formats and used by diverse systems. The Ontology Explorer is distinctive firstly because it supports analyses of information system…
Data circulation and migration governance: A social-network-analysis method to track shifts in responsibilities
Inderscience is a global company, a dynamic leading independent journal publisher disseminates the latest research across the broad fields of science, engineering and technology; management, public and business administration; environment, ecological economics and sustainable development; computing, ICT and internet/web services, and related areas
Data circulation and migration governance: A social-network-analysis method to track shifts in responsibilities
Does the circulation of data of third-country nationals crossing the digitised and securitised EU border affect the distribution of responsibilities among institutions and organisations involved in EU migration governance, and, if so, how? This article proposes an innovative methodology based on social network analysis and cluster analysis to study data circulation throughout EU information systems and its effects for governance and applies it to…
Telling ‘more complex stories’ of European integration: How a sociotechnical perspective can help explain administrative continuity in the Common European Asylum System
This article tries to explain an apparent paradox in the Common European Asylum System (CEAS): despite political stalemate over CEAS legislative reform and lack of trust amongst MSs, administrative cooperation shows operational continuity. Drawing on the ‘Infrastructural Europeanism’ approach, we argue that a sociotechnical perspective allows detecting the material means that operationally provide continuity to administrative action, despite poli…
Scripts of Alterity: Mapping Assumptions and Limitations of the Border Security Apparatus through Classification Schemas
This article empirically maps and compares types of knowledge produced about people on the move by the European border security apparatus. Exploring two complementary analytical moments, the article addresses the stabilization of power and contingent practices within such apparatuses. We argue, first, that analyzing classification schemas implemented in data systems used within the European apparatus can reveal assumptions and limitations about p…
Scripts of Security: Between Contingency and Obduracy
The special issue on Scripts of Security proposes to advance interdisciplinary exchanges between Science and Technology Studies and Critical Security Studies. While performativity, enactment, and intra-action have opened important questions about the messiness of security practices and the contingency of their effects, there has been less attention to the obduracy of institutionalized agency and how continuities and asymmetries of power are repro…
Manifesto on the Datafication of Mobility Across Borders
We present the Manifesto on the Datafication of Mobility Across Borders. Datafication is expanding the potential to produce and circulate information about people at unprecedented speed and scope. This is particularly revealed when people are “on the move” through territories of which they are not citizens. In this Manifesto, we are interested in the datafication practices and infrastructures that produce people as radical others. Practices of da…
Bridging silos or adding friction? The data work behind re-identification across interoperable data infrastructures
This paper investigates the technopolitics of identification across interoperable systems, with a particular focus on the identification of third-country nationals. In doing so, it reveals the data work required to establish and strengthen interoperability across systems. In the ongoing debate concerning interoperability's potential to bridge siloed organisations and their systems, the article focuses on iterative identification processes that ma…
From embracement to attachment: Registering people on the move and the couplings of noncitizenship and territory
This article analyzes how people on the move encounter registration infrastructures on their journey to Europe. Through the lens of three empirical cases—registration in the Eurodac system, registration in the framework of the European temporary protection directive, and national registration of migrants on Hellenic islands—we explore what we term “noncitizenship-territory couplings.” The article develops the concept of “registration as attachmen…
My Documents, Check Them out: A Game-Based Method to Engage Border-Crossers in the Re-Design of Migration Infrastructures
Information infrastructures for migration management significantly affect border-crossers’ life, yet they are not considered users of those infrastructures. Drawing on material publics and design justice, we hypothesize that border-crossers should be engaged in the (re)design of the classificatory infrastructures usually deployed in migration control. To further this hypothesis we developed a collaborative, role playing, serious game which was co…
Sociology (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Global Security and Public Health (5 works) · Corporate governance (4 works) · Engineering (4 works)