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.
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.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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