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Engineering Digitised Borders Georgios Glouftsios

Engineering Digitised Borders By Georgios Glouftsios

Engineering Digitised Borders by Georgios Glouftsios


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This book focuses on the Visa Information System (VIS): a large-scale data infrastructure interconnecting a multiplicity of state authorities that enact border security and migration management in the European Union.

Engineering Digitised Borders Summary

Engineering Digitised Borders: Designing and Managing the Visa Information System by Georgios Glouftsios

This book focuses on the Visa Information System (VIS): a large-scale data infrastructure interconnecting a multiplicity of state authorities that enact border security and migration management in the European Union. The VIS is embedded within a setting of pan-European IT systems that filter international mobility, identify threatening elements, hamper the travels of poor, racialized, and alienated subjects, while at the same time facilitate the circulation of those expected to generate financial and other kinds of capital. The book examines the engineering of the VIS by analyzing how it was designed before its deployment in the field of border security, and how it is maintained to ensure continuous and secure operation. It illustrates how engineering processes that render the VIS functional are not just technoscientific, but inherently political, as they (re)configure and maintain the power to govern international mobility by digital means.

About Georgios Glouftsios

Georgios Glouftsios is Postdoctoral Researcher and Contract Professor at the University of Trento, School of International Studies. His work sits at the intersection of Critical Security Studies, International Political Sociology, and Science and Technology Studies. His current research focuses on technologies used for border security, law enforcement and migration management in the European Union.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part 1: Design.- Chapter 2: Heterogeneity, Practice-Networks, Agency.- Chapter 3: Free Movement, the Interface, and Heterogeneous Engineers.- Chapter 4: Designing the VIS.- Part 2: Operational Management.- Chapter 5: Governing the System Multiple.- Chapter 6: The Birth of eu-LISA.- Chapter 7: Operating the VIS.- Epilogue.

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NPB9789811634017
9789811634017
9811634017
Engineering Digitised Borders: Designing and Managing the Visa Information System by Georgios Glouftsios
New
Hardback
Springer Verlag, Singapore
2021-07-30
161
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