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Author(s) -
Azadeh Akbari
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
surveillance and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.781
H-Index - 46
ISSN - 1477-7487
DOI - 10.24908/ss.v19i4.15123
Subject(s) - refugee , immigration , terrorism , political science , sociology , political economy , media studies , gender studies , criminology , law
This story underlines the high-tech preventive immigration policies and imagines a future where the digital European borders are extended beyond their geographical locations to tackle the “refugee problem” at its origin. The story depicts the contrast between the harsh reality of people fleeing war, terrorism, and patriarchy and the tremendous technological investment to restrain their movement. This piece has been written at a truly unsettling time, as the world is silently watching the demolishment of the women’s movement’s achievements in Afghanistan after twenty years of waging a fruitless war. By describing an encounter between a border robot and a refugee, this story turns our gaze from a problem to a human and unveils the brutality of immigration datafication—reducing wounded bodies and souls to biometric specificities.