Data Borders - How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry Around Immigrants

“This book is a clarion call about the dangers of the surveillance state that uses immigration as the playing field for capturing us all. Melissa Villa-Nicholas is one of the most important voices in technology studies, and this book is a must-read for anyone who cares about what’s at stake in the coming decades and why we should care.”—Safiya Umoja Noble, MacArthur Fellow and author of Algorithms of Oppression

"Villa-Nicholas weaves an intimate parable of the data-driven regimes that have extended unprecedented levels of surveillance over Latinx people as (and through) data bodies. Her urgent telling foregrounds the lived experiences of undocumented people encountering data borders and reminds us that we are all imbricated in these digital borderlands."—Miriam E. Sweeney, Associate Professor of Library and Information Studies, University of Alabama

About the author

Melissa Villa-Nicholas is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Rhode Island. Her work focuses on the Latinx histories and practices of information and technology, immigrant information rights, and critical approaches to information science. She is author of Latinas on the Line: Invisible Information Workers in Telecommunications, which received an honorable mention for the inaugural Labor Tech Research Network book award.

Product details

• Authors: Melissa Villa-Nicholas
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.07.2023
• EAN: 9780520386075
• ISBN: 978-0-520-38607-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, Latin America, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Telecommunications, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Caribbean islands, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social issues & processes, History of engineering and technology, Migration, immigration and emigration, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Impact of science & technology on society, History of engineering & technology, Impact of science and technology on society, Communications engineering / telecommunications, Library, archive and information management, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance, Control, privacy and safety in society, Library, Archive & Information Management, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General