Exploring the Security/Facilitation Nexus: Foucault at the ‘Smart’ Border

Leese, Matthias

doi:10.1080/13600826.2016.1173016

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“…Trends towards the virtualization and digitization of measures for transnational police collaboration in the context of migration and crime control have shifted formal border policy agendas and actual polities. Under the labels of 'smart borders' (Lehtonen & Aalto, 2017;Leese, 2016), 'iborders' (Pötzsch, 2015) and 'virtual borders' (Johnson et al, 2011), these trends have been addressed in policy discourse and extensively reflected in border studies (Amoore, 2006).…”

Section: Biobordering: Who Borders What and How?mentioning

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Biobordering as a Concept

Amelung

Granja

Machado

2020

Modes of Bio-Bordering

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This chapter introduces the concept of ‘biobordering’. Taking the nationally grown crime control regimes into account, we argue that the proposed concept of bioborders is useful in capturing how the territorial foundations of national state autonomy are partially reclaimed (what we call rebordering) and at the same time partially purposefully suspended (what we call debordering). The concept of biobordering is particularly fruitful for understanding how modes of bordering entangle with large-scale IT database infrastructures for the exchange of biometric data in the context of crime control. It highlights in particular the legal, scientific, technical, political and ethical dimensions of data exchange across borders across the EU. The chapter reviews recent insights from border studies and continues by outlining components and dynamics of biobordering that make bioborders more or less permeable for expansive biometric data exchange.

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Section: Biobordering: Who Borders What and How?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Biobordering as a Concept

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Granja

Machado

2020

Modes of Bio-Bordering

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“…Smart borders with automated lanes aim to speed up border crossings while filtering out risky elements (e.g. Amoore, Marmura, and Salter 2008;Jeandesboz 2016;Leese 2016); the standardisation of shipping containers allows for seamless intermodal freight transport while exposing containers to high-tech screening devices that scan for trafficked humans and illegal drugs (e.g. Heins 2015; Martin 2014); people and goods on the move can easily be tracked and monitored through RFID technology or the locating of mobile phones (e.g.…”

Section: Freedom and Controlmentioning

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The new mobilities paradigm and critical security studies: exploring common ground

Leese

Wittendorp

2018

Mobilities

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“…They also reveal that contrasting visions of EU territory and different modalities of border governance are not only correlated, but also practically intertwined in the reconfiguration of certain European border regions as simultaneously 'internal' and 'external'. Studies of border security have analysed the efforts to reconcile free movement and security imperatives in the EU framework of border management 52 . Equally important is to note that the mechanisms of Schengen bordering operate differently in different geopolitical contexts and in connection with other imaginaries, discourses and policy frameworks such as European spatial policy and border regions.…”

Section: Setting the Scene Ii: When Schengenland Meets Euroregionmentioning

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Mobile Borders and Turbulent Mobilities: Mapping the Geopolitics of the Channel Tunnel

Zhang

2017

Geopolitics

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This article investigates the making and contestation of mobile borders around the Channel Tunnel, the fixed link connecting Britain and the European continent. It suggests that the bordering of the infrastructural and vehicular spaces is both an object of inquiry in its own right and a productive lens for reflecting on questions related to EU territory, the heterogeneous nature of borders as well as the interplay between regimes of control and resistance. The paper starts by reviewing the legal and institutional frameworks in which the Channel Tunnel area is governed and envisioned as an interstate and European/Schengen borderzone. It then examines the uncoordinated efforts of national, private and European authorities in managing the episodic migration controversies around this area, which bring together the interconnected rationales of security, economy and humanitarianism and expose the dissonance between and within them. Finally, the article considers how the acts of turbulent mobilities interact with this contingent assemblage of mobility governance and realise the radical potential of territorial borders. 'Breakfast in Brussels, lunch in London, dinner in Paris.'-Metropolitan, Eurostar's onboard magazine 'Terrorists' fast train to Britain: Mail exposes shocking security flaws that allow ANYONE to get to the UK on Eurostar without a passport'-Headline of a Daily Mail story 1

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Exploring the Security/Facilitation Nexus: Foucault at the ‘Smart’ Border

Cited by 37 publications

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Biobordering as a Concept

Biobordering as a Concept

The new mobilities paradigm and critical security studies: exploring common ground

Mobile Borders and Turbulent Mobilities: Mapping the Geopolitics of the Channel Tunnel

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