From Smart Borders to Perimeter Security: The Expansion of Digital Surveillance at the Canadian Borders

Topak, Özgün E.; Bracken-Roche, Ciara; Saulnier, Alana; Lyon, David

doi:10.1080/14650045.2015.1085024

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“…The focus on the collection and processing of digital data by state and non-state actors has given rise to concerns about surveillance or dataveillance of mobile populations in borderzones (see e.g. Broeders and Dijstelbloem 2015;Topak et al 2015;Scheel, Ruppert, and Ustek-Spilda 2019) and migrant profiling through 'non-representational categories rather than actual real-life social groups' (Leese 2014, 504). Surplus data refers to data that is not immediately used by states for border governance, but that remains 'invisible' while indispensable to platform capitalism.…”

Section: Experimental Users Surplus Data Extractionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experimentality, Surplus Data and the Politics of Debilitation in Borderzones

Aradau

2020

Geopolitics

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The use of digital devices and the collection of digital data have become pervasive in borderzones. Whether deployed by state or non-state actors, digital devices are rolled out despite intense criticism and controversy. In this article, I propose to approach these interventions through the prism of experimentality. Experimentality was initially formulated in the anthropological literature on the globalisation of clinical trials and, more recently, revisited in feminist science and technology studies. Drawing on this work, I argue that experimentality has become a rationality of governing in borderzones, which renders social relations continuously decomposable and recomposable by inserting mundane (digital) devices into the world. The introduction of various digital devices in Greece since 2015, starting with Skype for the pre-registration of asylum seekers, helps shed light on a particular form of governing through experiments without protocol. This form of experimentality has specific political effects for migrants' lives. Firstly, experimentality builds upon and intensifies neoliberalism by rearranging rather than redressing precarity. In so doing, experimentality through digital devices produces debilitation rather than better connectivity or access to asylum. Secondly, migrants become not only subjects of surveillance, but subjects of extraction of 'surplus data' which entangles their lives into the circuits of digital platforms.

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Section: Experimental Users Surplus Data Extractionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Experimentality, Surplus Data and the Politics of Debilitation in Borderzones

Aradau

2020

Geopolitics

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“…Here studies focus centrally on theorizing the connections between race, white supremacy, and settler colonialism (Bonds & Inwood, ; Clarno, ; Eastwood, ; Inwood & Bonds, ; Mott, , ; Tatour, ). In addition to linking the growth of borderings in settler contexts with biopolitical imperatives (Dodds, ; Topak, Bracken‐Roche, Saulnier, & Lyon, ), studies link the rise of new border regimes and “internal colonialisms” in nonsettler contexts with settler logics (Giglioli, ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Political geographical perspectives on settler colonialism

Velednitsky

Hughes

Machold³

2020

Geography Compass

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Given the centrality of land, territory, and sovereignty to settler colonial formations, it is unsurprising that geographers and other scholars working on such topics are increasingly finding settler colonial studies fruitful in their research agendas. However, work on settler polities in political geography has historically been marked by the present absence of this framework, which has been consequential in terms of circumscribing the kinds of political analysis that geographers can offer. It also limits the nature, depth, and scope of radical critique of violent domination by skirting certain questions about the core drivers of dispossession and responsibility for them. This article examines political geographical engagement (or lack thereof) across each of four themes: population management/governance, territory/sovereignty, consciousness, and narrative, paying particular attention to works which challenge the present absence of settler colonial theory in political geography. We argue that analyzing settler colonial formations as such is essential to conceptualizing their workings and linkages or disjunctures with other forms of empire. Yet this focus also has broader political stakes related to geography's complicity with racialized state power, violence, and empire, as well as and efforts to decolonize the discipline.

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“…This collection builds on previous work, which examines the adoption of dual-use technologies for civil applications within the EU ) and the adoption of security technologies in the domestic context in the United States and Canada (such as Akhter 2017;Bracken-Roche 2016;Topak et al 2015;Wall and Monahan 2011). Through an in-depth study of specific technologies within the EU context, each chapter engages with the technical, social, political and normative controversies that emerge around the technologies and their governance within the EU.…”

Section: Developing Future Bordersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emerging Security Technologies and EU Governance

Calcara¹,

Csernatoni²,

Lavallée³

2020

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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2020 selection and editorial matter, Antonio Calcara, Raluca Csernatoni and Chantal Lavallée; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Antonio Calcara, Raluca Csernatoni and Chantal Lavallée to be identified as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. With the exception of Chapter 11, no part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.Chapter 11 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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From Smart Borders to Perimeter Security: The Expansion of Digital Surveillance at the Canadian Borders

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Experimentality, Surplus Data and the Politics of Debilitation in Borderzones

Experimentality, Surplus Data and the Politics of Debilitation in Borderzones

Political geographical perspectives on settler colonialism

Emerging Security Technologies and EU Governance

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