Foreword: Borders & bits: From obvious to insidious violence -- Introduction: Resisting technologies of violence and control -- Part 1: Ideologies of exclusion -- The border is surveillance: Abolish the border -- Multiplying state violence in the name of homeland security -- Empire's walls, global apartheid's infrastructure -- Fortress Europe's proliferating borders -- Frontex and Fortress Europe's technological experiments -- Abolish migration deterrence -- Cruel fictions in the black Mediterranean -- Case study: How we fight against (tech-facilitated) persecution of Uyghurs in China and abroad -- Case study: Why we took the UK to court for its discriminatory Visa streaming algorithm -- Part 2: Conjuring the perfect threat: techno-securitization and domestic policing -- Building the #NoTechforICE Campaign: An Interview with Jacinta Gonzalez -- Big tech, borders, and biosecurity: Securitization in Britain after COVID-19 -- Targeting Muslim communities in NYC: Interview with Fahd Ahmed -- Global Palestine: Exporting Israel's regime of population control -- Chicago's Gang database targeting people of color: Interview with Xanat Sobrevilla and Alyx Goodwin -- Building community power in unequal cities: Interview with Hamid Khan -- Case study: Why we are suing Clearview AI in California State Court -- Case study: Why we need local campaigns to end immigration detention -- Case study: Stop urban shield: How we fought DHS's militarized police trainings -- Part 3: Digital IDs: The body as a border -- Digital ID: A primer -- IDs and the citizen: Technologically determined identity in India -- The cost of recognition by the State: ID cards as coercion-An interview with Rodje Malcolm and Matthew McNaughton -- The UK's production of tech-enabled precarity: An interview with Gracie Mae Bradley -- On donkeys and blockchains: A conversation with Margie Cheesman -- Case study: How we mobilized civil society to fight Tunisia's proposed digital ID system -- Case study: Why we must fight for alternatives to the UK's digital-only ID system -- Part 4: Bordering everyday cities -- Apartheid tech: The use and expansion of biometric identification and surveillance technologies in the Occupied West Bank -- The encroachment of smart cities -- Control-X: Communication, control, and exclusion -- Data justice in Mexico: How big data is reshaping the struggle for rights and political freedoms -- Corporate tech and the legible city -- Seeing the watched: Mass surveillance in Detroit -- Necropolitics and neoliberalism are driving Brazil's surveillance infrastructure -- Case study: Why we must fight against COVID-19 surveillance and techno-solutionism --Cse study: How we challenged the German Migration Office's surveillance technology.
Summary:
The border regimes of imperialist states have brutally oppressed migrants throughout the world. To enforce their borders, these states have constructed a new digital fortress with far-reaching and ever-evolving new technologies. This pathbreaking volume exposes these insidious means of surveillance, control, and violence. In the name of "smart" borders, the U.S. and Europe have turned to private companies to develop a neocolonial laboratory now deployed against the Global South, borderlands, and routes of migration. They have established immigrant databases, digital IDs, electronic tracking systems, facial recognition software, data fusion centers, and more, all to more "efficiently" categorize and control human beings and their movement. These technologies rarely capture widespread public attention or outrage, but they are quietly remaking our world, scaling up colonial efforts of times past to divide desirables from undesirables, rich from poor, expat from migrant, and citizen from undocumented. The essays and case studies in Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence shed light on this threat, offering analyses of how the high-tech system of borders developed and inspiring stories of resistance to it. The organizers, journalists, and scholars in these pages are charting a new path forward, employing creative tools to subvert the status quo, organize globally against high-tech border imperialism, and help us imagine a world without borders.
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