Axis 1: Securitizing borders, bodies and mobility: the mechanisms

1) What new forms do borders take, and how do they function to ensure secure management of transnational mobility? 2) Through what control mechanisms and technologies do these borders take hold of bodies and grant them meanings, directly affecting people’s mobility? Mobility is ordered by complex technological mechanisms that make certain things possible or impossible. The characteristics of automated migration governance and its use in the public sector can change the relationship between public policy, front-line decision-makers and citizens, and between state and corporate technology and service providers.The Chair’s work will critically analyze the technopolitical solutions proposed by the state to regulate certain mobile bodies perceived and labeled as a problem or threat to be managed (e.g., automated facial recognition).