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Taylor, Becky; Akoka, Karen; Berlinghoff, Marcel; Havkin, Shira

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“…From 1973, IA71 restricted the automatic right of abode in the UK to those who could claim “patriality”: a direct connection to the British Isles through parental or grandparental ancestry or legal settlement. As recession deepened and unemployment rose through the 1970s, Margaret Thatcher’s election victory in 1979 legitimated and amplified popular anti-immigrationism, supported by her government’s ideological commitments to individualism, self-help, and the retrenchment of the state (Taylor 2021).…”

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Forgone, Not Forgotten: “DNA Fingerprinting,” Migration Control and Britain’s DNA Profiling Pilot Project

Bivins

2022

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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DNA profiling has become a culturally ubiquitous technology. Its use, whether in forensic investigations, genetic databases, biomedical research, international border-making, or popular genealogy, has been familiarized through political debates, media and cultural representations and commercialization. DNA profiling has also attracted considerable scholarly attention across this terrain. However, scant attention has been paid to the key role played by legal migration in driving DNA profiling’s initial translation from lab bench discovery to “truth machine” and identity token. Here, I discuss the first state-sponsored use of DNA profiling as a tool for establishing kinship relations among legal but racialized migrants on Britain’s borders in the mid-1980s. I argue that this early “experiment” conditioned the commercialization and future uses of the technology at and beyond border zones. Reinstating migration as the origin context for DNA profiling, and retracing the postcolonial routes by which it entered the biopolitical sphere, sheds light on the conjoined naturalization and racialization of genetic technologies of identity and identification, whether at or beyond national borders.

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Section: “Complex and Often Ambiguous”: Migration Matters And Border ...mentioning

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Forgone, Not Forgotten: “DNA Fingerprinting,” Migration Control and Britain’s DNA Profiling Pilot Project

Bivins

2022

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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Forgone, Not Forgotten: “DNA Fingerprinting,” Migration Control and Britain’s DNA Profiling Pilot Project

Forgone, Not Forgotten: “DNA Fingerprinting,” Migration Control and Britain’s DNA Profiling Pilot Project

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