Issue Introduction: IDentities and Identity: Biometric Technologies, Borders and Migration

Grünenberg, Kristina; Møhl, Perle; Olwig, Karen Fog; Simonsen, Anja Hviid

doi:10.1080/00141844.2020.1743336

Cited by 15 publications

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“…As Aas (2006) argues, they are thus tied to the notion that "bodies do not lie" (Aas 2006), but are reliable and "stable, unchanging repositor[ies] of personal information" (Magnet 2011: 2). Elsewhere we have coined the distinction between IDentity and identity as two different ways of conceptualising and treating identities (Grünenberg et al, 2022). We define IDentities as the "rudimentary identity markers contained in biometric data" (ibídem, 2022: 4) and, as such, IDentities link individual body parts to what is perceived to be "stable objective and unambiguous thing-like identities" (Aas, 2006: 147, in Grünenberg et al, 2022; see also Van der Ploeg, 1999).…”

Section: Security and Id/identity -An Empirical Mattermentioning

confidence: 99%

Securing the Future? IDentity and Security among Migrants, Policymakers, and Tech Developers

Grünenberg

Simonsen

2023

Papeles

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As an attempt to ensure national security, there has been an increased use of biometric technologies in recent years. These involve a wide range of technologically mediated practices which format and digitalize bodily attributes such as fingerprints, iris and face, for the registration and verification of the identity of individuals. While biometrics are used in a wide range of settings and assume an increasingly important regulating role in society, their use is particularly salient in the tracking of movements and identification of migrants. Building on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, this article seeks to explore the importance of- and desire for security and its entanglement with the production of identities among Somali migrants, European Union policy makers and tech developers. We are particularly interested in the various ways in which what we call biometric “IDentities” are negotiated, as borders have become ubiquitous and extend into the far corners of society. In the article, we argue that the relationship between security and biometric technologies is important for both Somali migrants, tech developers and policy makers albeit in very different ways. The practices emerging from such entanglements are all informed by contextual and sociocultural understandings and negotiations of security and identity along multiple lines. Additionally, we argue that security plays a prominent role despite these actors’ very different positions in the biometric border world.

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Section: Security and Id/identity -An Empirical Mattermentioning

confidence: 99%

Securing the Future? IDentity and Security among Migrants, Policymakers, and Tech Developers

Grünenberg

Simonsen

2023

Papeles

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“…However, as usual, technologies outrun the timely comprehension of their place in society, and it is this place that determines how digital procedures provide an objective and undeniable identification of a person. One of the first socio-anthropological studies based on ethnographic field work among technical developers, border police, forensic scientists, IT hacktivists and migrants emphasizes that in practice biometric technologies (as well as any other technologies) are embedded in specific social contexts, fraught with ambiguity and uncertainty, and are highly dependent on human interpretation and social identification [67].…”

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Assessment of Cognitive Behavioral Characteristics in Intelligent Systems with Predictive Ability and Computing Power

Kubryak,

Kovalchuk,

Bagdasaryan

2023

Philosophies

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The article proposes a universal dual-axis intelligent systems assessment scale. The scale considers the properties of intelligent systems within the environmental context, which develops over time. In contrast to the frequent consideration of the “mind” of artificial intelligent systems on a scale from “weak” to “strong”, we highlight the modulating influences of anticipatory ability on their “brute force”. In addition, the complexity, the ”weight“ of the cognitive task and the ability to critically assess it beforehand determine the actual set of cognitive tools, the use of which provides the best result in these conditions. In fact, the presence of ”common sense“ options is what connects the ability to solve a problem with the correct use of such an ability itself. The degree of ”correctness“ and ”adequacy“ is determined by the combination of a suitable solution with the temporal characteristics of the event, phenomenon, object or subject under study. The proposed approach can be applied in the evaluation of various intelligent agents in different contexts including AI and humans performing complex domain-specific tasks with high uncertainty.

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“…The collection of biometric data is carried out by censoring devices, which create digital representations of observed bodily characteristics (Van der Ploeg 1999). Aiming at 'the creation of undisputable facts' (Broeders and Dijstelbloem 2016, 16), biometrics have been incorporated in institutionalised methods of registering and recognising individuals (Grünenberg et al 2020). In this context, according to van der Ploeg and Sprenkels, '[I]dentification, and especially biometrics, has become absolutely central to migration policy in all its varieties' (2011, 87), while risk profiling has become part of the government of mobility (Amoore 2006) and the politics of possibility (Amoore 2013).…”

Section: 'Migration Technologies': Biometrics E-borders and Technolomentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The 'technologization of control and monitoring functions' (Ceyhan 2010) potentially undermines illegalised and undocumented migrants dealing with constant deportability (De Genova 2002Genova , 2007. However, the ways in which different actorssuch as border police, migrants or hacktivistsuse and experience biometrics is of particular importance (Grünenberg et al 2020) for understanding 'potential harms' they can provoke (Marciano 2019). Moreover, as Whyte (2020) pointed out, it is also necessary to take into account that biometrics also concern social and cultural imaginaries.…”

Section: 'Migration Technologies': Biometrics E-borders and Technolomentioning

confidence: 99%

Precarious migrants, migration regimes and digital technologies: the empowerment-control nexus

Nedelcu

Soysüren

2020

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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This special issue makes an in depth analysis of the various and complex interactions between precarious (i.e. forced, vulnerable, undocumented or deported) migrants' emancipatory practices enabled by information and communication technologies, and the constraints created by technological tools used for surveillance and migration control. It explores the empowerment-control nexus by articulating the use of digital technologieswhether by migrants themselves, by civil society actors, or by institutionswith their mediating role in the processes of empowerment, surveillance and migration control. It gathers together seven articles that draw on original empirical studies conducted across various geographical zones

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Issue Introduction: IDentities and Identity: Biometric Technologies, Borders and Migration

Cited by 15 publications

References 22 publications

Securing the Future? IDentity and Security among Migrants, Policymakers, and Tech Developers

Securing the Future? IDentity and Security among Migrants, Policymakers, and Tech Developers

Assessment of Cognitive Behavioral Characteristics in Intelligent Systems with Predictive Ability and Computing Power

Precarious migrants, migration regimes and digital technologies: the empowerment-control nexus

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