Description
There is an apparent increase in employing new techniques for migration management. We have been witnessing a continuous movement of populations because of social, political, economic instability, conflicts and climatic changes. Increased migration flows towards the EU countries over the last decade, have triggered a 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.
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.
States and police authorities transfer security duties to private companies, without a public dialogue taking place. States rely on private corporations for the identification, deterrence and management of migrants and refugees.
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 secondly, to investigate how the technologisation of borders reconfigures the actors’ positions, decisions and actions and how it changes their relations.
