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Enriches understandings of the digitisation of border security
Challenges conventional understandings of IT systems as mere security instruments or tools by providing an empirically grounded diagnosis of their ontology and agency
Contributes theoretically and conceptually to an understanding of technoscience not as an independent or externalized variable in international politics and practices, but as something that deeply entangled with a multitude of other elements on many levels
Draws on the intersections of STS and IR and thus contributes to an area that has in recent years been vibrant and innovative – both in terms of methodology and in terms of how to draw political and normative conclusions from the study of complex sociotechnical systems
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Operational Management
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
—Debbie Lisle, Professor of International Relations, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, Queen’s University Belfast
“Engineering digital borders presents in-depth field research within an outstanding analysis of digital infrastructures for borders and migration. The book explicates how the design and maintenance of large databases are in themselves controversial and political acts that matter in how political visions of borders come into being in the 21st century. It will set a standard for future research on digital borders and be of interest to students and practitioners.”
—Matthias Leese, Senior Researcher, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
“What are the digitised borders traversing and stretching Europe today? How and where are they crafted, monitored and maintained? These are important questions which this impressive book answers, making it essential reading not just for scholars of borders and migration but anyone interested in the politics at stake in novel practices of governing territories, populations and mobilities”.
–William Walters, Professor of Political Sociology, Carleton University, Canada
Authors and Affiliations
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School of International Studies, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
Georgios Glouftsios
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Engineering Digitised Borders
Book Subtitle: Designing and Managing the Visa Information System
Authors: Georgios Glouftsios
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3402-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-3401-7Published: 30 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-3402-4Published: 29 July 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 161
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology, general, International Relations, Human Geography, International Security Studies