Hacking migration control: Repurposing and reprogramming deportability

Franck, Anja K.; Vigneswaran, Darshan

doi:10.1177/0967010621996938

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“…Self-directed violence, in the form of fingertip burning and mutilation, is a way to escape digital epidermisation, and a mode of self-determination. “Escape” can be understood here as a manifestation of migrants’ autonomy (see Franck and Vigneswaran, 2021; Papadopoulos et al, 2008), while self-directed violence can be thought of as a mode of contesting different forms of state violence that include, as we discussed before, prolonged detention, threats of deportation, and coercive fingerprinting.…”

Section: Dissentmentioning

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“…That is, I shall not allow it to become cornered in any essence; I shall also pay attention to not mixing it into any amalgam”. When it comes to digitised borders, the act of burning and mutilating fingertips is not only about avoiding or “hacking” (Franck and Vigneswaran, 2021) the surveillance gaze of state authorities. Perhaps more profoundly, it is about enacting the right to opacity, understood as “the demand not to be legible as, and reducible to” data (Birchall, 2021: 95).…”

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Epidermal politics: Control, violence and dissent at the biometric border

Glouftsios

Casaglia

2022

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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In this paper, we critically interrogate the registration of migrants in pan-European, large-scale biometric databases, like Eurodac (European Asylum Dactyloscopy Database). We employ the notion of “epidermal politics”, which analytically captures how human bodies – and skin in particular – become sites of identification, violent control, and contestation. Thinking through epidermal politics allows us to understand how the development of technologies that render skin visible and analysable, such as fingerprint scanners and biometric matching algorithms, are entangled in relations of power, structural racism, and subjugation. Drawing on the work of Simone Browne (2015) and her elaboration of Franz Fanon’s theory of epidermisation, we argue that migration control in Europe, and its violent and racialising effects, are embedded within data infrastructures that “stigmatise” (Van Der Ploeg 1999) post-colonial “others” with codes to control their mobilities. We unpack this argument in three stages. First, we discuss the governmental rationales that inform the use of Eurodac for the management of migration and asylum in Europe. Second, we discuss how biometric control is related to different forms of state violence, including deportation, prolonged detention, and physical violence associated with the forced registration of migrants’ fingerprints. Third, we attend to strategies employed by migrants to contest biometric control, focusing specifically on fingertip burning and mutilation, which we interpret as acts of dissent and self-determination to escape control. Overall, our goal is to emphasise the need to pay closer attention to dynamics of violence and racialisation that emerge at biometric and other kinds of “hi-tech” borders.

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Epidermal politics: Control, violence and dissent at the biometric border

Glouftsios

Casaglia

2022

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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“…Another prominent and most recent cyberspace violation with potential intervention for derailing national security was Google+. Google+ came to an end after 500,000 Google+ users data security was compromised when the private information of such a huge amount of users was breached raising shocking results afterward [24]. Many government officials were reported to be blackmailed after this incident reporting.…”

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A Comparative Analysis of Information and Artificial Intelligence Toward National Security

Al-Suqri

Niaz

2022

IEEE Access

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Information is inevitable when it comes to national security. The information revolution seems to hold the massive potential to strengthen national security against current and upcoming threats and cyberattacks. However, advancements in information accessibility possess innumerable complications for retaining stable national security. One of the preeminent information sources is social media which certainly raises information manipulation factors and destabilizes national security. To accomplish better national security plans, information technology can help countries to identify potential threats, share information securely, and protect mechanisms in them. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the smart areas that robustly facilitates secure information handling to avoid threats and cyber-attacks. It intelligently scrutinizes information available to the public through social media and assists in refraining negative effects on national security. This research article widely focuses on four main analytical milestones; 1) Information available to the public 2) Information affecting national security 3) Risks of cyber-attacks 4) AI as paramount to national security for accomplishing competent information role. Our principal objective is to demystify information accessibilities perspectives for readers to understand the fundamentals of information accessibility and inaccessibility corresponding to national security. To support and manifest our milestones and objectives, a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) is methodologically adapted to draw suitable conclusions and develop a farsighted frame of reference. This paper concludes with AI tool based categorization and domain-specific analysis with area-based limitations to highlight current needs. Above all, this article is a thought-provoking kick-start for many naive social media users that usually avoid information-bearing elements and are victimized by cyber-attacks followed by national security compromises.

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“…First, research on deportees includes iterations on how they (and those they are connected to) deal with the bureaucracies involved in deportations as well as their agency in responding to their deportability (e.g. Drotbohm and Hasselberg, 2015; Franck and Vigneswaran, 2021). Research on resistance to deportation beyond the individual mainly focuses on movements within migrant communities and non-migrant activists, rather than states or state actors (e.g.…”

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Protective exclusion as a postcolonial strategy: Rethinking deportations and sovereignty in the Gambia

Zanker¹,

Altrogge

2022

Security Dialogue

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In 2019, the tiny West African country of the Gambia imposed a moratorium on all deportation flights from the EU. Though West African countries are notoriously reluctant to cooperate on forced returns, such a moratorium was unheard of and caused an uproar within diplomatic circles in Europe. In the age of deportability, why is deporting ‘unwanted’ migrants an illustration of a nation’s sovereign rights, yet refusing to accept deportees is not? The Gambian government used the moratorium to forestall political destabilization at a time of transition from a long dictatorship. With the moratorium, the government not only sought to protect deportees from violent removal practices but also served the interests of the Gambian population more broadly, among whom deportation remains deeply unpopular. Drawing on original expert interviews and informal conversations carried out between 2017 and 2020, this article shows that the moratorium allowed the Gambia to enact its internal sovereignty through a (temporary) protective exclusion of its citizens. Given the asymmetric and colonial legacy of modern-day sovereignty between states, the moratorium was a legitimate renegotiation of established but questionable standards of interstate sovereignty.

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Hacking migration control: Repurposing and reprogramming deportability

Cited by 11 publications

References 54 publications

Epidermal politics: Control, violence and dissent at the biometric border

Epidermal politics: Control, violence and dissent at the biometric border

A Comparative Analysis of Information and Artificial Intelligence Toward National Security

Protective exclusion as a postcolonial strategy: Rethinking deportations and sovereignty in the Gambia

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