Paul Trauttmansdorff
Biographic Data
| ID | 907152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Trauttmansdorff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Trauttmansdorff |
| SIGNATURE | TRAUTTMANSDORFF P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1826-6750 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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…
Interoperability and the multiple modes of ordering in Europe's digital border regime
Drawing on qualitative interview data and document analysis, this article traces the making of interoperability between databases as a policy response to Europe's crisis‐laden management of migration. It argues that, rather than adhering to a singular logic, the policy enacts several modes of ordering through which actors employ distinct meanings and rationales, deal with challenges and complexities, and evoke continuity and/or disruption in the …
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…
Against interoperability? Terrains of technopolitical contestation and the remaking of EU border infrastructure
Digital technologies and databases have repeatedly been associated with grand infrastructural promises in the European Union (EU)'s so-called management of borders and migration. Interoperability, i.e., the capacity to process traveler data across multiple databases, has been widely promoted as the latest and most transformative infrastructural innovation in this context. Yet, the contentious claims, voices of dissent, and opposing views regardin…
Elliott Anthony (2023) Algorithmic Intimacy. The Digital Revolution in Personal Relationships
Between Infrastructural Experimentation and Collective Imagination: The Digital Transformation of the EU Border Regime
A central and formative ingredient in the governance of migration in the European Union (EU) is the continuous construction of a large-scale digital infrastructure to ensure border security. Although border and critical security studies have increasingly focused on the multiple aspects of techno-materiality and infrastructural devices of border control, less has been said about how such an infrastructure encodes and transmits collective future vi…
Expanding boundaries: Unmaking and remaking secrecy in field research
This paper empirically retraces and conceptualizes secrecy in the study of security. Building on 27 qualitative, semi-structured interviews with social scientists about their field research experiences, we use Gieryn’s concept of “boundary work” to rethink secrecy not as a self-evident separator between clearly demarcated spheres but as something that is negotiated, suspended, or circumvented in social situations. A boundary perspective allows us…
The fabrication of a necessary policy fiction: The interoperability ‘solution’ for biometric borders
This article investigates the European Union’s (EU) effort to establish an interoperable biometric border regime. Drawing on interview material and ethnographic observation, I explore how the technical concept of interoperability is performed and translated into a powerful policy for infrastructuring borders in Europe. This article suggests that policymaking has been dominated by enacting solutionist ways of seeing and speaking about borders and …
Between Infrastructural Experimentation and Collective Imagination: The Digital Transformation of the EU Border Regime
A central and formative ingredient in the governance of migration in the European Union (EU) is the continuous construction of a large-scale digital infrastructure to ensure border security. Although border and critical security studies have increasingly focused on the multiple aspects of techno-materiality and infrastructural devices of border control, less has been said about how such an infrastructure encodes and transmits collective future vi…
The fabrication of a necessary policy fiction: The interoperability ‘solution’ for biometric borders
This article investigates the European Union’s (EU) effort to establish an interoperable biometric border regime. Drawing on interview material and ethnographic observation, I explore how the technical concept of interoperability is performed and translated into a powerful policy for infrastructuring borders in Europe. This article suggests that policymaking has been dominated by enacting solutionist ways of seeing and speaking about borders and …
Expanding boundaries: Unmaking and remaking secrecy in field research
This paper empirically retraces and conceptualizes secrecy in the study of security. Building on 27 qualitative, semi-structured interviews with social scientists about their field research experiences, we use Gieryn’s concept of “boundary work” to rethink secrecy not as a self-evident separator between clearly demarcated spheres but as something that is negotiated, suspended, or circumvented in social situations. A boundary perspective allows us…
The fabrication of a necessary policy fiction: The interoperability ‘solution’ for biometric borders
This article investigates the European Union’s (EU) effort to establish an interoperable biometric border regime. Drawing on interview material and ethnographic observation, I explore how the technical concept of interoperability is performed and translated into a powerful policy for infrastructuring borders in Europe. This article suggests that policymaking has been dominated by enacting solutionist ways of seeing and speaking about borders and …
Elliott Anthony (2023) Algorithmic Intimacy. The Digital Revolution in Personal Relationships
Between Infrastructural Experimentation and Collective Imagination: The Digital Transformation of the EU Border Regime
A central and formative ingredient in the governance of migration in the European Union (EU) is the continuous construction of a large-scale digital infrastructure to ensure border security. Although border and critical security studies have increasingly focused on the multiple aspects of techno-materiality and infrastructural devices of border control, less has been said about how such an infrastructure encodes and transmits collective future vi…
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…
Interoperability and the multiple modes of ordering in Europe's digital border regime
Drawing on qualitative interview data and document analysis, this article traces the making of interoperability between databases as a policy response to Europe's crisis‐laden management of migration. It argues that, rather than adhering to a singular logic, the policy enacts several modes of ordering through which actors employ distinct meanings and rationales, deal with challenges and complexities, and evoke continuity and/or disruption in the …
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…
Against interoperability? Terrains of technopolitical contestation and the remaking of EU border infrastructure
Digital technologies and databases have repeatedly been associated with grand infrastructural promises in the European Union (EU)'s so-called management of borders and migration. Interoperability, i.e., the capacity to process traveler data across multiple databases, has been widely promoted as the latest and most transformative infrastructural innovation in this context. Yet, the contentious claims, voices of dissent, and opposing views regardin…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Economic geography (3 works) · Interoperability (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (3 works) · World Wide Web (3 works)