Migration and the New Technological Borders of Europe (Migration, Minorities and Citizenship)

"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."-- Provided by publisher The borders of Europe are gradually mutatinginto technological borders. Technologies used for this task, such as European databases and biometric systems, are increasingly making use of the bodies of migrants as a source of information, discriminating for or against them as citizens or aliens. These new technological borders have a severe effect on the privacy and bodily integrity of people. Migration policy in Europe runs the risk of becoming a test lab for these new technologies. This cutting-edge collectionprovides a variety of disciplinary perspectives analyzing political, legal, administrational, and technological issues. Offering different strategies of counter-surveillance to strengthen the position of migrants and citizens, the bookunpicks the new tensions in Europe between states and citizens, and between politics, technology and human rights. Front Matter....Pages i-xii The Migration Machine....Pages 1-21 The Development of the EU Migration and Asylum Regime....Pages 22-39 A European ‘Border’ Surveillance System under Construction....Pages 40-67 Migration and the Machine-Readable Body: Identification and Biometrics....Pages 68-104 Migration Technology and Public Responsibility....Pages 105-133 Legal Boundaries and the Use of Migration Technology....Pages 134-169 Reclaiming Control over Europe’s Technological Borders....Pages 170-185 Back Matter....Pages 186-194 This book challenges some of the most basic assumptions underpinning the growing interest in religion, including: that religion is increasing and secularisation is decreasing and that religion is the main component of identity for all minority ethnic people. Britain is now permanently a multi-racial and multi-cultural society, with a race relations legislative framework. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the contribution made by this legislation to the development of British race relations This text presents a comparative analysis of residential, social, economic and political rights for aliens. It covers research on Japan as well as on the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America