Description
There is an apparent increase in employing new techniques for migration management. The new migration management agenda defined by technological innovations, like for example usage of biometrics, big data predictions regarding population movements, and artificial intelligence lie detectors. In fact, biometrics has become one the main practices for the identification of migrants and refugees. In the EU, the first signs of border control biometricisation can be detected within the Eurodac system and the biometric passports.
Within this context, the growing employment of biometrics and the increasing role of data in managing populations raise ethical, legal and efficacy considerations, which become more salient once combined the with the economic dimension of biometry and datafication, namely the rising profits in this market and the neoliberal logic underpinning border management.
In the effort to map the constantly altering border regime defined by technological innovations, the paper seeks firstly, to explore the ramifications to human rights and the impact on human lives, and secondly, to investigate how the technologisation of borders reconfigures the actors’ positions, decisions and actions and how it changes their relations.
