Issue Introduction: IDentities and Identity: Biometric Technologies, Borders and Migration
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Issue Introduction : IDentities and Identity: Biometric Technologies, Borders and Migration. / Grünenberg, Kristina; Møhl, Perle; Olwig, Karen Fog; Simonsen, Anja.
I: Ethnos, Bind 87, Nr. 2, 2022, s. 211-222.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Issue Introduction
T2 - IDentities and Identity: Biometric Technologies, Borders and Migration
AU - Grünenberg, Kristina
AU - Møhl, Perle
AU - Olwig, Karen Fog
AU - Simonsen, Anja
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Biometric technologies that use digital representations of bodily phenomena to identify individuals have become an institutionalized method of registering and recognizing persons, thereby establishing their right to cross borders. Based on situated ethnographic fieldwork among tech-developers, border police, forensics, IT hacktivists and migrants, this special issue illuminates how biometric technologies are put to use and experienced by the diverse social actors who imagine and promote, develop, employ, are subjected to and attempt to circumvent such identification. In this introduction, biometric identification (or IDentification) is presented as a relatively new area of investigation that has been subjected to little ethnographic scrutiny. It is argued that, while biometric technologies are promoted as enabling objective and incontestable IDentification of individuals, they are in practice embedded in specific social contexts, fraught with ambiguity and uncertainty, and dependent on substantial human interpretation and social identification. They are therefore of considerable interest and concern to anthropology.
AB - Biometric technologies that use digital representations of bodily phenomena to identify individuals have become an institutionalized method of registering and recognizing persons, thereby establishing their right to cross borders. Based on situated ethnographic fieldwork among tech-developers, border police, forensics, IT hacktivists and migrants, this special issue illuminates how biometric technologies are put to use and experienced by the diverse social actors who imagine and promote, develop, employ, are subjected to and attempt to circumvent such identification. In this introduction, biometric identification (or IDentification) is presented as a relatively new area of investigation that has been subjected to little ethnographic scrutiny. It is argued that, while biometric technologies are promoted as enabling objective and incontestable IDentification of individuals, they are in practice embedded in specific social contexts, fraught with ambiguity and uncertainty, and dependent on substantial human interpretation and social identification. They are therefore of considerable interest and concern to anthropology.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Biometric technologies
KW - border control
KW - migration
KW - identity
KW - Europe
U2 - 10.1080/00141844.2020.1743336
DO - 10.1080/00141844.2020.1743336
M3 - Journal article
VL - 87
SP - 211
EP - 222
JO - Ethnos
JF - Ethnos
SN - 0014-1844
IS - 2
ER -
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