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ID147320
Title ProperSmartening border security in the European Union
Other Title Informationan associational inquiry
LanguageENG
AuthorJeandesboz, Julien
Summary / Abstract (Note)This contribution asks how the reliance on mass dataveillance of travellers is sustained as a central policy option in the governance of EU border security. It examines this question by analysing a recent initiative of the European Commission proposing the establishment of EU ‘smart borders’. The analysis draws from a set of thinking tools developed by the sociology of association in the field of science and technology studies. The contribution argues that in order to grasp policy outcomes such as smart borders, security studies would benefit from adopting a compositional outlook on agency, where action is seen as the effect of associated entities. Looking at the smartening of EU borders, the article finds that this process is held together by multiple translations and enrolments through which the technical side of dataveillance – platforms, automated gates, matching systems, and so forth – has become associated with the processes of policymaking on border security and sustains the furtherance of mass dataveillance.
`In' analytical NoteSecurity Dialogue Vol. 47, No.4; Aug 2016: p.292-309
Journal SourceSecurity Dialogue Vol: 47 No 4
Key WordsEuropean Union ;  Smart Borders ;  Sociology of Association ;  Surveillance Technology


 
 
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