Migrants in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Control - Couverture souple

Mahmoudi, Matt

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520397010 ISBN 13 : 9780520397019

Editeur : University of California Press, 2025

Synopsis

As the fortification of Europe's borders and its hostile immigration terrain has taken shape, so too have the biometric and digital surveillance industries. And when US Immigration Customs Enforcement aggressively reinforced its program of raids, detention, and family separation, it was powered by Silicon Valley corporations. In cities of refuge, where communities on the move once lived in anonymity and proximity to familial and diaspora networks, the possibility for escape is diminishing.

As cities rely increasingly on tech companies to develop digital urban infrastructures for accessing information, identification, services, and socioeconomic life at large, they also invite the border to encroach further on migrant communities, networks, and bodies. In this book, Matt Mahmoudi unveils how the unsettling convergence of Silicon Valley logics, austere and xenophobic migration management practices, and racial capitalism has allowed tech companies to close in on the final frontiers of fugitivity--and suggests how we might counteract their machines through our own refusal.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Matt Mahmoudi is Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge, where he works on racialized borders in digital cities. He has led Amnesty International's research on biometrics from New York City to Palestine and coedited Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520397010
• ISBN 13: 9780520397019
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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