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Dreaming of seamless borders: ICTs and the pre-emptive governance of mobility in Europe
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posted on 2023-06-08, 13:50 authored by Dennis Broeders, James HampshireJames HampshireA recent trend in migration policy in Europe is the increased use of ICTs for border control purposes. A growing academic literature explains the digitisation of border controls as an instance of post-9/11 securitization of migration policy. This paper re-examines why European states are digitising their border controls, and then explores how ‘pre-emptive mobility governance’ works. Although security imperatives play a role in accelerating digitisation, a securitization framing obscures continuities with pre-9/11 practices and underplays other policy drivers. Pre-emptive mobility governance is best characterised as a digital-era version of ‘remote control’, and is shaped by other organizational and political rationales: first, instrumental beliefs about the efficiency gains of border technologies; second, their symbolic role in the context of the domestic politicization of immigration. The paper then considers how ICTs are reshaping the tools of mobility governance, enabling three distinct modes of pre-emptive detection and effect: black, grey and green-listing.
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration StudiesISSN
1369-183XPublisher
Taylor & FrancisExternal DOI
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8Volume
39Page range
1201-1218Department affiliated with
- Politics Publications
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