Biometric Technologies, Data and the Sensory Work of Border Control
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Biometric Technologies, Data and the Sensory Work of Border Control. / Møhl, Perle.
I: Ethnos, Bind 87, Nr. 2, 2021, s. 241-256.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Biometric Technologies, Data and the Sensory Work of Border Control
AU - Møhl, Perle
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Based on ethnographic fieldwork among border guard police at Copenhagen Airport and Gibraltar International Airport, the article explores the links and dissociations between human and technological vision and intelligence work in the daily operation of border and security control. Presenting two situations in which travellers and their luggage are scrutinized and their intentions and potential future actions imagined, the article seeks to establish the active interpretive forces at play in identification. Where automated recognition operates within the frame of already known and registered information, an essential aspect of border control is concerned with assessing future unknowns through sensory work, interpretation and the crafting of plausible stories. The analysis shows that the actual object of assessment in border control is neither an ID nor a person, but a synthetic and ephemeral figure created in the instance of control as a composite of data inputs and multiple sensory cues: the ID-entity.
AB - Based on ethnographic fieldwork among border guard police at Copenhagen Airport and Gibraltar International Airport, the article explores the links and dissociations between human and technological vision and intelligence work in the daily operation of border and security control. Presenting two situations in which travellers and their luggage are scrutinized and their intentions and potential future actions imagined, the article seeks to establish the active interpretive forces at play in identification. Where automated recognition operates within the frame of already known and registered information, an essential aspect of border control is concerned with assessing future unknowns through sensory work, interpretation and the crafting of plausible stories. The analysis shows that the actual object of assessment in border control is neither an ID nor a person, but a synthetic and ephemeral figure created in the instance of control as a composite of data inputs and multiple sensory cues: the ID-entity.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - border control
KW - biometric technology
KW - sensory anthropology
KW - Visual anthropology
KW - police research
KW - identification
KW - Europe
U2 - 10.1080/00141844.2019.1696858
DO - 10.1080/00141844.2019.1696858
M3 - Journal article
VL - 87
SP - 241
EP - 256
JO - Ethnos
JF - Ethnos
SN - 0014-1844
IS - 2
ER -
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