The Biometric Border World: Technology, Bodies and Identities on the Move - Rilegato

Olwig, Karen Fog; Grünenberg, Kristina; Møhl, Perle; Simonsen, Anja

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ISBN 10: 0367199580 ISBN 13: 9780367199586

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2019

Riassunto

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.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Karen Fog Olwig is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Kristina Grünenberg is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Perle Møhl is Researcher at CAMES – Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation, Denmark.

Anja Simonsen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0367199580
• ISBN 13: 9780367199586
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 250
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania