Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence / edited by Mizue Aizeki [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aizeki, Mizue, editor.

Series:

Abolitionist papers series.

Abolitionist Papers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Electronic surveillance--Social aspects.

Electronic surveillance.

Border patrols--Social aspects.

Border patrols.

Emigration and immigration--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, IL : Haymarket Books, [2023]

Summary:

The border regimes of imperialist states have brutally oppressed migrants throughout the world. To enforce their borders, these states have constructed a new digital fortress with far-reaching and ever-evolving new technologies. This pathbreaking volume exposes these insidious means of surveillance, control, and violence. In the name of "smart" borders, the U.S. and Europe have turned to private companies to develop a neocolonial laboratory now deployed against the Global South, borderlands, and routes of migration. They have established immigrant databases, digital IDs, electronic tracking systems, facial recognition software, data fusion centers, and more, all to more "efficiently" categorize and control human beings and their movement. These technologies rarely capture widespread public attention or outrage, but they are quietly remaking our world, scaling up colonial efforts of times past to divide desirables from undesirables, rich from poor, expat from migrant, and citizen from undocumented. The essays and case studies in Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence shed light on this new threat, offering analyses of how the high-tech system of borders developed and inspiring stories of resistance to it. The organizers, journalists, and scholars in these pages are charting a new path forward, employing creative tools to subvert the status quo, organize globally against high-tech border imperialism, and help us imagine a world without borders.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

Foreword: Borders &amp

Bits: From Obvious to Insidious Violence

Introduction: Resisting Technologies of Violence and Control

Part 1: Ideologies of Exclusion

1. The Border Is Surveillance: Abolish the Border

2. Multiplying State Violence in the Name of Homeland Security

3. Empire's Walls, Global Apartheid's Infrastructure

4. Fortress Europe's Proliferating Borders

5. Frontex and Fortress Europe's Technological Experiments

6. Abolish Migration Deterrence

7. Cruel Fictions in the Black Mediterranean

8. CASE STUDY: How We Fight Against (Tech-Facilitated) Persecution of Uyghurs in China and Abroad

9. CASE STUDY: Why We Took the UK to Court for Its Discriminatory Visa Streaming Algorithm

Part 2: Conjuring the Perfect Threat: Techno-Securitization and Domestic Policing

10. Building the #NoTechforICE Campaign: An Interview with Jacinta Gonzalez

11. Big Tech, Borders, and Biosecurity: Securitization in Britain after COVID-19

12. Targeting Muslim Communities in NYC: Interview with Fahd Ahmed

13. Global Palestine: Exporting Israel's Regime of Population Control

14. Chicago's Gang Database Targeting People of Color: Interview with Xanat Sobrevilla and Alyx Goodwin

15. Building Community Power in Unequal Cities: Interview with Hamid Khan

16. CASE STUDY: Why We Are Suing Clearview AI in California State Court

17. CASE STUDY: Why We Need Local Campaigns to End Immigration Detention

18. CASE STUDY: Stop Urban Shield: How We Fought DHS's Militarized Police Trainings

Part 3: Digital IDs: The Body as a Border

19. Digital ID: A Primer

20. IDs and the Citizen: Technologically Determined Identity in India

21. The Cost of Recognition by the State: ID Cards as Coercion-An Interview with Rodjé Malcolm and Matthew McNaughton.

22. The UK's Production of Tech-Enabled Precarity: An Interview with Gracie Mae Bradley

23. On Donkeys and Blockchains: A Conversation with Margie Cheesman

24. CASE STUDY: How We Mobilized Civil Society to Fight Tunisia's Proposed Digital ID System

25. CASE STUDY: Why We Must Fight for Alternatives to the UK's Digital-Only ID System

Part 4: Bordering Everyday Cities

26. Apartheid Tech: The Use and Expansion of Biometric Identification and Surveillance Technologies in the Occupied West Bank

27. The Encroachment of Smart Cities

28. Control-X: Communication, Control, and Exclusion

29. Data Justice in Mexico: How Big Data Is Reshaping the Struggle for Rights and Political Freedoms

30. Corporate Tech and the Legible City

31. Seeing the Watched: Mass Surveillance in Detroit

32. Necropolitics and Neoliberalism Are Driving Brazil's Surveillance Infrastructure

33. CASE STUDY: Why We Must Fight against COVID-19 Surveillance and Techno-Solutionism

34. CASE STUDY: How We Challenged the German Migration Office's Surveillance Technology

35. CASE STUDY: Fighting San Diego's Smart Streetlights Super Surveillance System

Part 5: Looking Forward

36. Abolish National Security

37. The First Step Is Finding Each Other

38. The Red Deal: Indigenous Liberation and the Fight to Save the Planet

39. Trying Harder to Build a World Where Life Is Precious: An Interview with Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Editors and Contributors

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9798888901410

OCLC:

1415889002