UID:
almahu_9949383500802882
Format:
1 online resource (x, 240 pages)
ISBN:
9780367808464
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0367808463
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9781000712841
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1000712842
,
9781000713039
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1000713032
,
9781000712650
,
1000712656
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in anthropology
Content:
"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 NGOs attempting to manoeuvre in the complicated and often unpredictable systems of technological control. Biometric technologies are promoted by national and supra-national 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"--
Note:
Introduction I. In the laboratory Kristina Grünenberg Introducing the Site 1. Body Cartographers: Mapping Bodies and Borders in the Laboratory 2. The 'Biometric Community': Friends, Foes and the Political Economy of Biometric Technologies Epilogue II. On the border Perle Møhl Introducing the Site 3. Vision, Faces, Identities: Technologies of Recognition 4. 'Is It a Donkey?' Presences, Senses and Figuration in Human-technological Border Control Epilogue; III. En route Anja Simonsen Introducing the Site 5. Fleeting (Biometric) Encounters: Care and Control at Italian Border Sites 6. 'In-formation' and 'Out-formation' : Routines and Gaps En Route Epilogue IV. In the family Karen Fog Olwig Introducing the Site 7. Biometric Verification Vs. Social Validation of Relations of Kinship: Somali Refugees in Denmark 8. Mouth Swabs and Other Techniques of Verification: Determining Refugees' Rights to a Family Life Epilogue; Conclusion
Additional Edition:
Print version: Olwig, Karen Fog, 1948- Biometric border world. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2020] ISBN 9780367199586
Language:
English
Keywords:
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9780367808464
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780367808464