The Promises and Pitfalls of Biometric Security Practices in Senegal

La migración como (f)actor geopolítico: Una aproximación desde la autonomía de las migraciones

“…De esta forma, "la gestión biométrica de los extranjeros, con su ensamblaje de nuevas leyes, políticas y prácticas fronterizas, implica que la geopolítica y la biopolítica se hacen inseparables" (Hyndman 2012: 246 traducción propia). Además, las tecnologías biométricas y la digitalización de los controles fronterizos se ofrecen a los gobiernos del Sur como un "ideal biométrico" cuya ratificación conllevará una subida de rango geopolítico de sus países, incorporándose a muchos niveles en redes globales de seguridad (Frowd 2017;Glouftsios y Scheel 2021).…”

The politics of the Hajj organisation in Senegal: security, legitimation and clientelism

“…More generally, through the 2016 reform of the hajj, which we presented above, the state imposes strict specifications to private agencies, which allows it to exert a tight control over those who try to make it into the hajj sector. Also, by the mid-2000s, the state implemented more developed technologies of surveillance at the country's airport which, combined with the obligation for pilgrims to carry a biometric passport (since 2009, following Saudi requests), 23 heightens its capacity to know more about its citizens (Sandor 2016; Frowd 2017). Though these new technological tools may not be as efficient in practice as they seem (Sandor 2016; Frowd 2017), they do demonstrate the Senegalese state's attempt at consolidating its security policies of information-gathering and monitoring despite having privatised the organisation of the hajj.…”

Racism in Foucauldian Security Studies: Biopolitics, Liberal War, and the Whitewashing of Colonial and Racial Violence

“…Situated at the intersection of Security Studies and International Political Sociology, the broader FSS field has similarly deployed concepts of biopolitics, liberalism, and war more empirically. Indeed, this journal has been a major hub of research on topics situated at this intersection, including mobility, migration and airports (Salter 2007;Chambers 2011;D'Aoust 2013;Frowd 2017); humanitarianism and the development-security nexus (Reid 2013;Abdelnour & Saeed 2014;Ilcan & Rygiel 2015;Pallister-Wilkins 2015); counter-terrorism (Dillon 2007, Debrix & Barder 2009Neal 2012de Goede, & de Graaf 2013; technoscience and security (Lundborg & Vaughan-Williams 2011;Thomas 2014;Busse 2015;Allinson 2015); global health security (Howell 2007, Elbe 2012) and the political economy of security Abrahamsen and Williams 2009;Best 2016). In focusing on the biopolitics of liberal war thesis, we equip readers to judge whether the problems we identify in this approach also underwrite the more empirical FSS literature.…”