The Biometric Border World

Technologies, Bodies and Identities on the Move

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19930243
AutoresK F Olwig (0000-0002-2984-0156), Kristina Grünenberg (0000-0001-6524-9761), Perle Møhl (0000-0002-9161-7465), A Simonsen (0000-0002-2348-5982, University of Copenhagen)
Ano2019
Data de publicação2019-10-22
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoBiometric Border World (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780367808464
OpenAlexW4244643907
Open LibraryOL40087533M
ISBN9780367808464
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15
Referências citadas11

Since the 1990s, biometric border control has attained key importance throughout Europe. Employing digital images of, for example, fingerprints, DNA, bones, faces or irises, biometric technologies use bodies to identify, categorize and regulate individuals’ cross-border movements. Based on innovative collaborative fieldwork, this book examines how biometrics are developed, put to use and negotiated in key European border sites. It analyses the disparate ways in which the technologies are applied, perceived and experienced by border control agents and others managing the cross-border flow of people, by scientists and developers engaged in making the technologies, and by migrants and non-government organizations attempting to manoeuvre in the complicated and often-unpredictable systems of technological control. Biometric technologies are promoted by national and supranational authorities and industry as scientifically exact and neutral methods of identification and verification, and as an infallible solution to security threats. The ethnographic case studies in this volume demonstrate, however, that the technologies are, in fact, characterized by considerable ambiguity and uncertainty and subject to substantial subjective interpretation, translation and brokering with different implications for migrants, border guards, researchers and other actors engaged in the border world

Ambiguity · Biometrics · Border Security · Business · Categorization · Computer security · Control (management) · Government (linguistics) · Identification (biology) · Internet privacy · Key (lock) · Political science · Public relations · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Aliens · Anthropology · Biometric identification · Engineering · General · Identification biométrique · Illegal aliens · Illegal immigration · Immigration clandestine · Innovations · Noncitizens · Sécurité frontalière · Social Science · Technological innovations