Overview

"The border regimes of imperialist states have brutally oppressed migrants throughout the world. To enforce their borders, these states have constructed a new digital fortress with far-reaching and ever-evolving new technologies. This pathbreaking volume exposes these insidious means of surveillance, control, and violence. In the name of ""smart"" borders, the U.S. and Europe have turned to private companies to develop a neocolonial laboratory now deployed against the Global South, borderlands, and routes of migration. They have established immigrant databases, digital IDs, electronic tracking systems, facial recognition software, data fusion centers, and more, all to more ""efficiently"" categorize and control human beings and their movement. shed light on this new threat, offering analyses of how the high-tech system of borders developed and inspiring stories of resistance to it. The organizers, journalists, and scholars in these pages are charting a new path forward, employing creative tools to subvert the status quo, organize globally against high-tech border imperialism, and help us imagine a world without borders. Contributors:Nasma Ahmed, Khalid Alexander, Sara Baker, Lea Beckmann, Wafa Ben-Hassine, Ruha Benjamin, Maike Bohn, J. Carlos Lara Glvez, Timmy Chu, Arely Cruz-Santiago, Ida Danewid, Nick Estes, Rafael Evangelista, Katy Fallon, Marwa Fatafta, Ryan Gerety, Ben Green, Jeff Helper, Nisha Kapoor, Lilly Irani, Brian Jordan Jefferson, Lara Kiswani, Arun Kundnani, Jenna M. Loyd, Rodj Malcolm, Matthew McNaughton, Todd Miller, Petra Molnar, Mariah Montgomery, Joseph Nevins, Conor O'Reilly, Chai Patel, Tawana Petty, Ernesto Schwartz-Marin, Paromita Shah, Silky Shah, Koen Stoop, Miriam Ticktin, Harsha Walia"

Full Product Details

Author:   Mizue Aizeki ,  Matt Mahmoudi ,  Coline Schupfer ,  Ruha Benjamin
Publisher:   Haymarket Books
Imprint:   Haymarket Books
ISBN:  

9798888901809

Publication Date:   13 February 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD: Borders & Bits: From Obvious to Insidious Violence by Ruha Benjamin Introduction: Resisting Technologies of Violence and Control By Mizue Aizeki, Matt Mahmoudi, and Coline Schupfer SECTION 1: Ideologies of Exclusion: Title? By Harsha Walia Multiplying State Violence in the Name of Homeland Security by Mizue Aizeki Empire’s Walls, Global Apartheid’s Infrastructure by Joseph Nevins and Todd Miller Fortress Europe’s Proliferating Borders by Miriam Ticktin Frontex and Fortress Europe’s Technological Experiments by Katy Fallon and Petra Molnar Abolish Migration Deterrence by Jenna M. Loyd Cruel Fictions in the Black Mediterranean by Ida Danewid, The Black Mediterranean Collective CASE STUDY: Why We Need Local Campaigns to End Immigration Detention CASE STUDY: Why We Took the U.K. to Court for their Discriminatory Visa Streaming Algorithm SECTION 2: Conjuring the Perfect Threat: Techno-Securitization and Domestic Policing Building the #NoTechforICE Campaign: An Interview with Jacinta Gonzalez Big Tech, Borders and Biosecurity: Securitization in Britain after Covid-19 by Nisha Kapoor Targeting Muslim communities in NYC: Interview with Fahd Ahmed Global Palestine: Exporting Israel’s Regime of Population Control by Jeff Halper Chicago’s Gang Database Targeting People of Color: Interview with Xanat Sobrevilla and Alyx Goodwin Building Community Power in Unequal Cities: Interview with Hamid Khan CASE STUDY: Why We Are Suing Clearview AI In California State Court CASE STUDY: How We Fight Against (Tech-Facilitated) Persecution of Uyghurs in China and Abroad CASE STUDY: Stop Urban Shield: How We Fought DHS’ Militarized Police Trainings SECTION 3: Digital IDs: The Body as a Border Digital ID: A Primer by Sara Baker, The Engine Room IDs and the Citizen: Technologically Determined Identity in India by Usha Ramanathan The cost of recognition by the state: IDs card as coercion: Interview with Rodjé Malcolm and Matthew McNaughton The UK’s Production of Tech-enabled Precarity: An Interview with Gracie Mae Bradley On Donkeys and Blockchains: A Conversation with Margie Cheesman CASE STUDY: How We Mobilized Civil Society to Fight Tunisia’s Proposed Digital ID System CASE STUDY: Why We Must Fight for Alternatives to the UK’s Digital-Only ID System SECTION 4: Bordering Everyday Cities Apartheid Tech: The Use and Expansion of Biometric Identification and Surveillance Technologies in the Occupied West Bank by Marwa Fartafta The Encroachment of Smart Cities by Ben Green CONTROL-X: Communication, Control, & Exclusion by Brian Jefferson Data Justice in Mexico: How Big Data is Reshaping the Struggle for Rights and Political Freedoms by Arely Cruz-Santiago, Ernesto Schwartz-Marín, and Conor O’Reilly Corporate Tech and The Legible City by Ryan Gerety, Mariah Montgomery, Mizue Aizeki and Nasma Ahmed Seeing the Watched: Mass Surveillance in Detroit By Tawana Petty Necropolitics and Neoliberalism Are Driving Brazil’s Surveillance Infrastructure By Rafael Evangelista CASE STUDY: Why We Must Fight Against COVID-19 Surveillance and Technosolutionism CASE STUDY: How We Challenged the German Migration Office’s Surveillance Technology CASE STUDY: Fighting San Diego’s Smart Streetlights Super Surveillance System SECTION 5: Looking Forward Abolish National Security by Arun Kundnani The First Step is Finding Each Other by Timmy Châu The Red Deal: Indigenous Liberation and The Fight to Save the Planet by Nick Estes Trying Harder to Build a World Where Life is Precious: An Interview with Ruth Wilson Gilmore Editors and Contributors Acknowledgments

Reviews

"""This volume... holds a mirror up to the everyday violence of borders that rarely capture widespread public attention, much less outrage. The essays and case studies that follow draw our attention to the policies and technologies that governments and companies are deploying quietly and viciously, tearing into people’s lives, ripping families apart, and hunting down the most vulnerable, one computer bit at a time."" —Ruha Benjamin, from the Foreword ""In a world awash with violent borders, this book serves as a beacon of hope guiding us towards a more just future."" —Reece Jones, author of Nobody Is Protected: How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States  "

Author Information

Mizue Aizeki is the Director of Surveillance,Technology, and Immigration Policing at the Immigrant Defense Project (IDP). Aizeki's photographic work appears in Dying to Live, A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheidand Policing the Planet. MattMahmoudi, published by Oxford University Press. . The Guardian.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions