The Biometric Border World: Technologies, Bodies and Identities on the Move

ISBN-13: 9781032086736 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 252 str.

Kristina Gr?nenberg; Perle M?hl; Anja Simonsen

Opis

Since the 1990s, biometric border control has attained key importance throughout Europe. Based on innovative collaborative fieldwork, this book examines how biometrics are developed, put to use and negotiated in key European border sites.

Spis treści

Introduction;  I. In the laboratory;  1. Body Cartographers: Mapping Bodies and Borders in the Laboratory;  2. The ‘Biometric Community’: Friends, Foes and the Political Economy of Biometric Technologies;  II On the border;  3. Vision, Faces, Identities: Technologies of Recognition;  4. ‘Is it a donkey?’ Presences, Senses and Figuration in Human-technological Border Control;  III. En route;  5. Fleeting (biometric) Encounters: Care and Control at Italian border Sites;  6. ‘In-formation’ and ‘Out-formation’: Routines and Gaps en route;  IV. In the family;  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;  Conclusion

O autorze

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.