The biometric border world : technologies, bodies and identities on the move /

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Imprint:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. ©2020
Description:	x, 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge studies in anthropology Routledge studies in anthropology.
Subject:	Biometric identification -- Europe. Border security -- Technological innovations -- Europe. Illegal aliens -- Europe. Biometric identification. Illegal aliens. Europe.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12030028

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Other authors / contributors:	Olwig, Karen Fog, 1948- editor. Grünenberg, Kristina, editor. Møhl, Perle, editor. Simonsen, Anja, editor.
ISBN:	9780367199586 0367199580 9780367808464
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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"--
Other form:	Online version: The biometric border world 1. New York : Routledge, 2019. 9780367808464

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