(Dis)qualified bodies: securitization, citizenship and ‘identity management’

Müller, Benjamin

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“…At first glance, and partially at least, Balibar's proposition, that there is no identity; only identification, seems to reverberate closely with the biometric project. For the latter appears to be, more often than not, driven by the quest for identification/authentication rather than identity itself (see also Muller 2004). Not that 15 the ideal of identity completely evaporates in the midst of biometric processes.…”

Section: En Ce XXI E Siècle Le Corps Prend Sa Revanche C'est à Lui mentioning

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Recombinant Identities: Biometrics and Narrative Bioethics

Ajana¹

2013

Governing Through Biometrics

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In recent years, there has been a growing interest in finding stronger means of securitising identity against the various risks presented by the mobile globalised world. Biometric technology has featured quite prominently on the policy and security agenda of many countries. It is being promoted as the solution du jour for protecting and managing the uniqueness of identity in order to combat identity theft and fraud, crime and terrorism, illegal work and employment, and to efficiently govern various domains and services including asylum, immigration and social welfare.In this paper, I shall interrogate the ways in which biometrics is about the uniqueness of identity and what kind of identity biometrics is concerned with. I argue that in posing such questions at the outset, we can start delimiting the distinctive bioethical stakes of biometrics beyond the all-toofamiliar concerns of privacy, data protection and the like. I take cue mostly from Cavarero's Arendt-inspired distinction between the "what" and the "who" elements of a person, and from Ricoeur's distinction between the "idem" and "ipse" versions of identity. By engaging with these philosophical distinctions and concepts, and with particular reference to the example of asylum policy, I seek to examine and emphasise an important ethical issue pertaining to the practice of biometric identification. This issue relates mainly to the paradigmatic shift from the biographical story (which for so long has been the means by which an asylum application is assessed) to biodigital samples (that are now the basis for managing and controlling the identities of asylum applicants). The purging of identity from its narrative dimension lies at the core of biometric technology's overzealous aspiration to accuracy, precision and objectivity, and raises one of the most pressing bioethical questions vis-à-vis the realm of identification.

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Section: En Ce XXI E Siècle Le Corps Prend Sa Revanche C'est à Lui mentioning

confidence: 99%

Recombinant Identities: Biometrics and Narrative Bioethics

Ajana¹

2013

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“…Companies and governments often promote the illusion that algorithmic processes and data-driven systems have been purged of human bias, errors, and interference, leading to more neutral, objective, and automated decisions (Ajana, 2015;Muller, 2004). However, classification systems are neither neutral nor objective but are biased toward their purposes.…”

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Quantified Bodies in the Checking Loop: Analyzing the Choreographies of Biomonitoring and Generating Big Data

Parviainen¹

2016

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“…Concerned with how new biometric technologies and the "securitization of the inside" post-9/11 are affecting access to citizenship rights, Benjamin Muller (2004) suggests that we are witnessing a shift from a politics of citizenship to a politics of identity management. The uniform social citizenship that was the objective of the citizen-forming strategies of the 20th century is jeopardized by the state's application of biometrics -technologies which are manifestations of a new culture of world-wide risk management.…”

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“…In one sense, the 'border is now everywhere,' or 'delocalized,' such that the international political distinction between inside and outside is less explicit (Lyon, 2003a: 147). In a second sense, 9/11 has led to a securitization of the inside (Muller, 2004) that simultaneously alters and reinforces the distinction between inside/outside. As Beck et al (2003:10) put it, "the state is back," and for the oldest Hobbesian reason -the provision of security in world risk society.…”

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“…As a component of the 'War on Te r r o r' abroad, locating enemies within the state is a principal motivation for securitization-as it has always been in wartime practice (Schulhofer, 2002;Muller, 2004). If state apparatuses can see and know all 'inside the state' by regulating the movement of citizens and non-citizens across borders, the inside can be eliminated as a threat to national security.…”

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Risk Technologies and the Securitization of Post-9/11 Citizenship: The Case of National ID Cards in Canada.

Walby

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2009

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RésuméLes attaques du 11 septembre 2001 sur Washington et New York continuent d'influencer la manière dont les gouvernements gèrent les déplacements de personnes, l'immigration, la citoyenneté et la sûreté nationale. Au Canada, suite aux événements du 11 septembre, l'une des plus contentieuses mesures envisagées en vue de garantir la sûreté nationale a été d'introduire une carte d'identité nationale biométrique. Dans cette communication, nous soutenons que l'effort en vue d'introduire une carte d'identité nationale biométrique est lié à un raisonnement idéologique qui menace d'exacerber plutôt que d'apaiser les sentiments d'insécurité nationale quant aux risques, à la citoyenneté et à la sûreté des frontières. Nous maintenons que les technologies de contrôle de « preuve de statut », telles que les cartes d'identité encodées biométriques, conduisent à la « tritisation » de la citoyenneté et nous concluons que -au nom de la sûreté nationale -ces cartes d'identité risquent de déstabiliser les spatialisations modernes de la souveraineté qu'elles sont censées protéger. AbstractThe attacks of 11 September 2001 on Washington and New York continue to influence how governments manage im/migration, citizenship, and national security. One of the more contentious national security responses to the events of 9/11 in Canada has been the drive to introduce a biometric national identification card. In this paper, we argue that the drive for a Canadian national ID card is bound up in ideological processes which threaten to exacerbate, rather than to alleviate, state insecurities pertaining to risk, citizenship, and border (in) security. We maintain that 'proof of status' surveillance technologies, such as biometrically-encoded ID cards, lead to the 'securitization' of citizenship, and we conclude that ID cards threaten to destabilize the modern spatializations of sovereignty that they are purported to uphold under the guise of national security. (Beck, Bonss and Lau 2003:18).

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(Dis)qualified bodies: securitization, citizenship and ‘identity management’

Cited by 152 publications

References 16 publications

Recombinant Identities: Biometrics and Narrative Bioethics

Recombinant Identities: Biometrics and Narrative Bioethics

Quantified Bodies in the Checking Loop: Analyzing the Choreographies of Biomonitoring and Generating Big Data

Risk Technologies and the Securitization of Post-9/11 Citizenship: The Case of National ID Cards in Canada.

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