Sarah Perret
Biographic Data
| ID | 896795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Perret |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Perret |
| SIGNATURE | PERRET S |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7657-1895 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
(Un)Making mess at Europe's data borders: Order, control, critique
Critical border and migration studies have shown that border practices are often messy, ambiguous, improvised and uncertain, while datafication has amplified messiness and its effects on migrants. Describing ‘mess’ at borders has been a critical intervention against the myth of order, homogeneity, predictability, clarity or efficiency. Yet, ‘mess’ can also open spaces for agency and resisting data borders. What do these ambiguities mean for the c…
Violent Ends for Violent Devices? Non-Knowledge and the 'Unreflexive' Practices of EU's Border Security Design
Since the early 2000s, the EU has funded many R&D projects on border security. However, devices developed through these programmes have met ‘violent ends’: firstly, by appearing to face abrupt ends after EU funding ceased; secondly, by materialising to serve as violent border devices. This article traces the fate of devices funded by the EU’s 7th Framework Programme for managing human and non-human movements. Theoretically, it adds to the literat…
Drawing Data Together: Inscriptions, Asylum, and Scripts of Security
Data have become a vital device of border governance and security. Recent scholarship on the datafication of borders and migration at the intersection of science and technology studies and critical security studies has privileged concepts attuned to messiness, contingency, and friction such as data assemblages and infrastructures. This paper proposes to revisit and expand the analytical vocabulary of script analysis to understand what comes to co…
The politics of (non-)knowledge at Europe's borders: Errors, fakes, and subjectivity
From statistical calculations to psychological knowledge, from profiling to scenario planning, and from biometric data to predictive algorithms, International Relations scholars have shed light on the multiple forms of knowledge deployed in the governing of populations and their political effects. Recent scholarship in critical border and security studies has drawn attention to ‘the other side of knowledge’ and has developed a vibrant conversatio…
Neither opaque nor transparent: A transdisciplinary methodology to investigate datafication at the EU borders
In 2020, the European Union announced the award of the contract for the biometric part of the new database for border control, the Entry Exit System, to two companies: IDEMIA and Sopra Steria. Both companies had been previously involved in the development of databases for border and migration management. While there has been a growing amount of publicly available documents that show what kind of technologies are being implemented, for how much mo…
Voit-on mieux de près ? Être chercheur embarqué au Parlement
Existe-t-il une spécificité de l'« acteur » collaborateur-chercheur ? Cette étude interroge ce double statut qui soulève des questions à la fois épistémologiques et méthodologiques sur l'approche du terrain et l'objet de recherche. Mais elle interroge également les effets d'une telle posture de recherche sur la pratique professionnelle. Dans quelle mesure ces deux postures s'influencent-elles mutuellement ? C'est à ces questions que ce travail co…
Designs of borders: Security, critique, and the machines
Over the past 15 years, the European Commission has poured millions of euros into Research and Development in border security. This article looks at the devices that are funded under this scheme. To this end, it applies Multiple Correspondence Analysis to a database of 41 projects funded under 7th Framework Programme. This method of data visualisation unearths the deep patterns of opposition that run across the sociotechnical universe where Europ…
The Biometric Lives of Migrants: Borders, Discrimination and (In)justice
Biometrics, the technology for measuring, analysing and processing a person’s physiological characteristics, such as their fingerprints, iris or facial patterns, is increasingly used in the management of migrant and refugee flows. This panel interrogates the uses of biometric technologies and the consequences for the lives of migrants and refugees. It asks how biometric data are constituted, what their limitations and biases are, how biometric te…
Vers la structuration d’un nouveau champ d’étude sur la coopération européenne en matière de sécurité intérieure
The politics of (non-)knowledge at Europe's borders: Errors, fakes, and subjectivity
From statistical calculations to psychological knowledge, from profiling to scenario planning, and from biometric data to predictive algorithms, International Relations scholars have shed light on the multiple forms of knowledge deployed in the governing of populations and their political effects. Recent scholarship in critical border and security studies has drawn attention to ‘the other side of knowledge’ and has developed a vibrant conversatio…
Drawing Data Together: Inscriptions, Asylum, and Scripts of Security
Data have become a vital device of border governance and security. Recent scholarship on the datafication of borders and migration at the intersection of science and technology studies and critical security studies has privileged concepts attuned to messiness, contingency, and friction such as data assemblages and infrastructures. This paper proposes to revisit and expand the analytical vocabulary of script analysis to understand what comes to co…
Neither opaque nor transparent: A transdisciplinary methodology to investigate datafication at the EU borders
In 2020, the European Union announced the award of the contract for the biometric part of the new database for border control, the Entry Exit System, to two companies: IDEMIA and Sopra Steria. Both companies had been previously involved in the development of databases for border and migration management. While there has been a growing amount of publicly available documents that show what kind of technologies are being implemented, for how much mo…
Violent Ends for Violent Devices? Non-Knowledge and the 'Unreflexive' Practices of EU's Border Security Design
Since the early 2000s, the EU has funded many R&D projects on border security. However, devices developed through these programmes have met ‘violent ends’: firstly, by appearing to face abrupt ends after EU funding ceased; secondly, by materialising to serve as violent border devices. This article traces the fate of devices funded by the EU’s 7th Framework Programme for managing human and non-human movements. Theoretically, it adds to the literat…
Designs of borders: Security, critique, and the machines
Over the past 15 years, the European Commission has poured millions of euros into Research and Development in border security. This article looks at the devices that are funded under this scheme. To this end, it applies Multiple Correspondence Analysis to a database of 41 projects funded under 7th Framework Programme. This method of data visualisation unearths the deep patterns of opposition that run across the sociotechnical universe where Europ…
Vers la structuration d’un nouveau champ d’étude sur la coopération européenne en matière de sécurité intérieure
The Biometric Lives of Migrants: Borders, Discrimination and (In)justice
Biometrics, the technology for measuring, analysing and processing a person’s physiological characteristics, such as their fingerprints, iris or facial patterns, is increasingly used in the management of migrant and refugee flows. This panel interrogates the uses of biometric technologies and the consequences for the lives of migrants and refugees. It asks how biometric data are constituted, what their limitations and biases are, how biometric te…
Designs of borders: Security, critique, and the machines
Over the past 15 years, the European Commission has poured millions of euros into Research and Development in border security. This article looks at the devices that are funded under this scheme. To this end, it applies Multiple Correspondence Analysis to a database of 41 projects funded under 7th Framework Programme. This method of data visualisation unearths the deep patterns of opposition that run across the sociotechnical universe where Europ…
The politics of (non-)knowledge at Europe's borders: Errors, fakes, and subjectivity
From statistical calculations to psychological knowledge, from profiling to scenario planning, and from biometric data to predictive algorithms, International Relations scholars have shed light on the multiple forms of knowledge deployed in the governing of populations and their political effects. Recent scholarship in critical border and security studies has drawn attention to ‘the other side of knowledge’ and has developed a vibrant conversatio…
Neither opaque nor transparent: A transdisciplinary methodology to investigate datafication at the EU borders
In 2020, the European Union announced the award of the contract for the biometric part of the new database for border control, the Entry Exit System, to two companies: IDEMIA and Sopra Steria. Both companies had been previously involved in the development of databases for border and migration management. While there has been a growing amount of publicly available documents that show what kind of technologies are being implemented, for how much mo…
Voit-on mieux de près ? Être chercheur embarqué au Parlement
Existe-t-il une spécificité de l'« acteur » collaborateur-chercheur ? Cette étude interroge ce double statut qui soulève des questions à la fois épistémologiques et méthodologiques sur l'approche du terrain et l'objet de recherche. Mais elle interroge également les effets d'une telle posture de recherche sur la pratique professionnelle. Dans quelle mesure ces deux postures s'influencent-elles mutuellement ? C'est à ces questions que ce travail co…
Drawing Data Together: Inscriptions, Asylum, and Scripts of Security
Data have become a vital device of border governance and security. Recent scholarship on the datafication of borders and migration at the intersection of science and technology studies and critical security studies has privileged concepts attuned to messiness, contingency, and friction such as data assemblages and infrastructures. This paper proposes to revisit and expand the analytical vocabulary of script analysis to understand what comes to co…
Violent Ends for Violent Devices? Non-Knowledge and the 'Unreflexive' Practices of EU's Border Security Design
Since the early 2000s, the EU has funded many R&D projects on border security. However, devices developed through these programmes have met ‘violent ends’: firstly, by appearing to face abrupt ends after EU funding ceased; secondly, by materialising to serve as violent border devices. This article traces the fate of devices funded by the EU’s 7th Framework Programme for managing human and non-human movements. Theoretically, it adds to the literat…
(Un)Making mess at Europe's data borders: Order, control, critique
Critical border and migration studies have shown that border practices are often messy, ambiguous, improvised and uncertain, while datafication has amplified messiness and its effects on migrants. Describing ‘mess’ at borders has been a critical intervention against the myth of order, homogeneity, predictability, clarity or efficiency. Yet, ‘mess’ can also open spaces for agency and resisting data borders. What do these ambiguities mean for the c…
Political science (8 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Global Security and Public Health (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer security (3 works) · Border Security (2 works)