Migration and the New Technological Borders of Europe

by H. Dijstelbloem (Editor), A. Meijer (Editor)

Overview

European borders that aim to control migration and mobility increasingly rely on technology to distinguish between citizens and aliens. This book explores new tensions in Europe between states and citizens, and between politics, technology and human rights.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349326259
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2011
Series:	Migration, Minorities and Citizenship
Edition description:	1st ed. 2011
Pages:	194
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

ALEX BALCH is a research fellow in the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, based at ICOSS, uk MICHIEL BESTERS is a researcher at the Rathenau Institute, The Netherlands DENNIS BROEDERS is coordinator of the Policy, Information and Technology project group at ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands FRANS BROM is head of the department of Technology Assessment of the Rathenau Institute and Professor of Ethics of Technology Assessment at Utrecht University, The Netherlands EVELIEN BROUWER is Assistant Professor of constitutional and administrative law in the Law School of the Utrecht University, The Netherlands HUUB DIJSTELBLOEM is Lecturer in Philosophy of Science at the University of Amsterdam and Senior Researcher at the Scientific Council for Government Policy in The Hague (WRR), The Netherlands ANDREW GEDDES is Chair of the Department of Politics of the University of Sheffield, UK ALBERT MEIJER is Associate Professor of public administration and policy sciences at Utrecht University, The Netherlands IRMA VAN DER PLOEG is Professor of Infonomics and New Media at Zuyd University, Maastricht/Heerlen, The Netherlands ISOLDE SPRENKELS is a PhD student and junior researcher at the Infonomics and New Media Research Centre at Zuyd University, The Netherlands

Table of Contents

Detecting Europe's New Technological Borders;  H.Dijstelbloem, A.Meijer & M Besters The Development of the EU Migration and Asylum Regime;  A.Balch  & A.Geddes A European 'Border' Surveillance System Under Construction;  D.Broeders Migration and the Machine-Readable Body: Identification and Biometrics;  I.van der Ploeg & I.Sprenkels Information Technology and Responsibility: An Uncontrollable Migration Machine;  A.Meijer Legal Boundaries and the Use of Migration Technology; E.Brouwer Reclaiming Control Over Europe's Technological Borders;  H.Dijstelbloem, A.Meijer & F.Brom