The biometric border world technologies, bodies and identities on the move / Karen Fog Olwig, Kristina Gr©ơnenberg, Perle M©ıhl and Anja Simonsen.
| Author/creator | Olwig, Karen Fog, 1948- |
| Other author | Gr©ơnenberg, Kristina. |
| Other author | M©ıhl, Perle. |
| Other author | Simonsen, Anja. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. |
| Description | x, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge studies in anthropology |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-234) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019029100 |
| ISBN | 9780367199586 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
Availability
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |