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Europe’s Border and Surveillance Technologies advances a postcolonial reading of border and surveillance technologies by conceptualizing the present-day European border regime as part of a racial-colonial complex that stretches from the contemporary refugee crisis to the colonial era. From the days of colonial conquest to the economic exploitation under the Mandate System and recent years’ interventions in the “Orient,” the book provides a longue durée perspective to uncover the unacknowledged legacies that have sedimented into the bureaucratic and technological backbone of the European border regime. Europe’s pre-digital colonial history continues to shape the political present and has morphed into EU border technologies, media infrastructure, classification apparatuses, and weaponry. By locating border and surveillance infrastructure between Europe’s former colonies and the current migrant crisis, Madörin lays bare the colonial fabric of late-modern surveillance technologies––the colonial antecedents of today’s border apparatuses.

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The multilayered hi-tech surveillance systems that guard Europe's borders appear instrumental in facilitating the orderly and efficient movement of bona fide passengers and denying entry to 'problematic populations.' However, Anouk Madoerin argues that beneath this facade lies appalling neocolonial policies and racist sorting principles that European governments, colonial companies, and elites have developed over centuries of colonialism and the trade of enslaved populations. The author argues her case forcefully and passionately. It is essential reading for those interested in critical surveillance studies, racism, migration studies, and colonialism.--Ahmad H. Sa'di, Ben-Gurion University and author of Thorough Surveillance: The Genesis of Israeli Policies of Population Management, Surveillance, and Political Control towards the Palestinian Minority

The multilayered hi-tech surveillance systems that guard Europe's borders appear instrumental in facilitating the orderly and efficient movement of bona fide passengers and denying entry to 'problematic populations.' However, Anouk Madoerin argues that beneath this facade lies appalling neocolonial policies and racist sorting principles that the European government and elites have developed over centuries of colonialism and the trade of enslaved populations. The author argues her case forcefully and passionately. It is essential reading for those interested in critical surveillance studies, racism, migration studies, and colonialism.--Ahmad H. Sa'di, Ben-Gurion University and author of Thorough Surveillance: The Genesis of Israeli Policies of Population Management, Surveillance, and Political Control towards the Palestinian Minority

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Anouk Madörin is a Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Potsdam, Germany.

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