Migrants in the Digital Periphery : New Urban Frontiers of Control.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mahmoudi, Matt.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biometric identification--United States.

Biometric identification.

Electronic surveillance--United States.

Electronic surveillance.

Immigration enforcement--Technological innovations--United States--History.

Immigration enforcement.

Noncitizens--United States.

Noncitizens.

Racism--United States.

Racism.

Refugees--United States.

Refugees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2025.

Summary:

As the fortification of Europe's borders and its hostile immigration terrain has taken shape, so too have the biometric and digital surveillance industries. And when US Immigration Customs Enforcement aggressively reinforced its program of raids, detention, and family separation, it was powered by Silicon Valley corporations. In cities of refuge, where communities on the move once lived in anonymity and proximity to familial and diaspora networks, the possibility for escape is diminishing. As cities rely increasingly on tech companies to develop digital urban infrastructures for accessing information, identification, services, and socioeconomic life at large, they also invite the border to encroach further on migrant communities, networks, and bodies. In this book, Matt Mahmoudi unveils how the unsettling convergence of Silicon Valley logics, austere and xenophobic migration management practices, and racial capitalism has allowed tech companies to close in on the final frontiers of fugitivity--and suggests how we might counteract their machines through our own refusal.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Acronyms

Glossary

Introduction

Part 1: Race, Border, and Capital Entanglements

1. Racism Is a Feature (Not a Bug)

2. The Making of the Digital Periphery

Part 2: Race in the Digital City

3. Xenophobic Roots, Tolerant Facades

4. The Digital Antisanctuary of New York

5. Digital Refugeeness in Berlin

Part 3: Machine-Breaking, Neo-Luddism, and Fugitivity

6. Disciplining Mobilities in the Digital Periphery

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520397026

0520397029

OCLC:

1482262282