Smart Borders, Digital Identity and Big Data: How Surveillance Technologies Are Used Against Migrants

Emre Eren Korkmaz

ISBN 10: 152923350X / ISBN 13: 9781529233506

Published by Bristol University Press 2024-01-11, 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Smart Borders, Digital Identity and Big Data: How Surveillance Technologies Are Used Against Migrants
• Publisher: Bristol University Press 2024-01-11
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 152923350X
• ISBN 13: 9781529233506
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In recent years, UN agencies, global tech corporations, states and humanitarian NGOs have invested in advanced technologies from smart borders to digital identities to manage migratory movements. These are surveillance technologies that have intensified the militarization of borders and became a testing ground for surveillance capitalism.

This book shows how these technologies reproduce structural inequalities and discriminative policies. Korkmaz reveals the way in which they grant extensive powers to states and big tech corporations to control communities.

Unpacking the effects of surveillance capitalism on vulnerable populations, this is a much-needed intervention that will be of interest to readers in a range of fields.

About the Author

Emre Eren Korkmaz is Departmental Lecturer in Migration and Development at the University of Oxford.