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European borders that aim to control migration and mobility increasingly rely on technology to distinguish between citizens and aliens. This book explores new tensions in Europe between states and citizens, and between politics, technology and human rights.
List of contents
Detecting Europe's New Technological Borders; H.Dijstelbloem, A.Meijer & M Besters The Development of the EU Migration and Asylum Regime; A.Balch & A.Geddes A European 'Border' Surveillance System Under Construction; D.Broeders Migration and the Machine-Readable Body: Identification and Biometrics; I.van der Ploeg & I.Sprenkels Information Technology and Responsibility: An Uncontrollable Migration Machine; A.Meijer Legal Boundaries and the Use of Migration Technology; E.Brouwer Reclaiming Control Over Europe's Technological Borders; H.Dijstelbloem, A.Meijer & F.Brom
About the author
ALEX BALCH is a research fellow in the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, based at ICOSS, uk
MICHIEL BESTERS is a researcher at the Rathenau Institute, The Netherlands
DENNIS BROEDERS is coordinator of the Policy, Information and Technology project group at ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
FRANS BROM is head of the department of Technology Assessment of the Rathenau Institute and Professor of Ethics of Technology Assessment at Utrecht University, The Netherlands
EVELIEN BROUWER is Assistant Professor of constitutional and administrative law in the Law School of the Utrecht University, The Netherlands
HUUB DIJSTELBLOEM is Lecturer in Philosophy of Science at the University of Amsterdam and Senior Researcher at the Scientific Council for Government Policy in The Hague (WRR), The Netherlands
ANDREW GEDDES is Chair of the Department of Politics of the University of Sheffield, UK
ALBERT MEIJER is Associate Professor of public administration and policy sciences at Utrecht University, The Netherlands
IRMA VAN DER PLOEG is Professor of Infonomics and New Media at Zuyd University, Maastricht/Heerlen, The Netherlands
ISOLDE SPRENKELS is a PhD student and junior researcher at the Infonomics and New Media Research Centre at Zuyd University, The Netherlands
Summary
European borders that aim to control migration and mobility increasingly rely on technology to distinguish between citizens and aliens. This book explores new tensions in Europe between states and citizens, and between politics, technology and human rights.
