Border necrotechnics automation, surveillance, and the racial politics of migration control Petra Molnar

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Molnar, Petra (Lawyer), author.

Series:

Palgrave studies in race, ethnicity, indigeneity and criminal justice

Palgrave studies in race, ethnicity, indigeneity and criminal justice 2946-5486

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Border security--Technological innovations.

Emigration and immigration.

Race discrimination.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland Palgrave Macmillan [2026]

Summary:

"This book examines how emerging border technologies such as AI-driven risk scoring, autonomous surveillance towers, biometric identity systems, predictive analytics, and algorithmic decision tools reshape the criminalization and securitization of migration. Positioned at the intersection of criminology, critical migration studies, and socio-technical analysis, this book argues that AI and other autonomous surveillance technologies do not simply “manage” migration: instead, these tools actively produce racialized suspicion, legitimize expanded policing, and enable new forms of pre-emptive control over people-on-the-move, often leading to adverse outcomes including discrimination, racism, and even death. The term border necrotechnics describes the assemblage of automated systems, infrastructures, and practices through which states and corporations decide which lives are rendered killable, deportable, or indefinitely surveilled at and beyond the border. Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship, this book situates border AI and surveillance within a broader genealogy of punishment, racialized security practices, and the policing of global mobility. The author argues that AI systems automate historical logics of exclusion, embedding them in digital infrastructures that appear neutral yet replicate deep structural inequalities. Through ethnographic interviews and field observations it offers rare insight into how people experiencing forced displacement encounter emerging surveillance technologies firsthand"-- Springer Nature Link

Contents:

Introduction : The criminalization of mobility in the age of AI

Techno-racial borders : Automated discrimination in the modern digital security state

Carceral borders : Detention, punishment, and the automation of confinement

The border-industrial complex : Corporate power and the procurement of life and death

Law, governance, and the regulatory gaps that perpetuate harm

Futures beyond border necrotechnics

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Springer Nature Link, viewed August 17, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Molnar, Petra (Lawyer) Border necrotechnics

ISBN:

9783032320704

3032320704

OCLC:

1611517638

Access Restriction:

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