'Is it a donkey?': Presences, senses and figuration in human-technological border control
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- Møhl, Perle (2020) ‘Is it a donkey?’ Presences, senses and figuration
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The chapter presents and analyses forms of presence detection in the control of border transgressions by using sonar and haptic technologies that ‘listen’ to and ‘feel’ for presences and hidden persons, and different forms of imagery, notably radar and infrared. Such technologies do not identify individuals but only kinds of bodies - humans, birds, donkeys. The border guards develop refined skills for distinguishing the living from the inert, humans from non-humans. The chapter pursues by inversing the perspective to encompass different forms of surveillance of the surveyors themselves, whether by migrants or management, with a vivid description of migrant technological skills and tactics for crossing the border.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The biometric border world : technologies, bodies and identities on the move |
Editors | Karen Fog Olwig, Kristina Grünenberg, Perle Møhl, Anja Simonsen |
Place of Publication | Oxon, New York |
Publisher | Routledge |
Publication date | 2019 |
Pages | 100-114 |
Chapter | Part II, 4 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-0-367-19968-6 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-0-367-80846-4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Series | Routledge Studies in Anthropology |
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