Migration and the New Technological Borders of Europe

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. The Migration Machine

   • Huub Dijstelbloem, Albert Meijer, Michiel Besters

   Pages 1-21

3. The Development of the EU Migration and Asylum Regime

   • Alex Balch, Andrew Geddes

   Pages 22-39

4. A European ‘Border’ Surveillance System under Construction

   • Dennis Broeders

   Pages 40-67

5. Migration and the Machine-Readable Body: Identification and Biometrics

   • Irma van der Ploeg, Isolde Sprenkels

   Pages 68-104

6. Migration Technology and Public Responsibility

   • Albert Meijer

   Pages 105-133

7. Legal Boundaries and the Use of Migration Technology

   • Evelien Brouwer

   Pages 134-169

8. Reclaiming Control over Europe’s Technological Borders

   • Huub Dijstelbloem, Albert Meijer, Frans Brom

   Pages 170-185

9. Back Matter

   Pages 186-194

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European borders that aim to control migration and mobility increasingly rely on technology to distinguish between citizens and aliens. This book explores new tensions in Europe between states and citizens, and between politics, technology and human rights.

• Asylum
• development
• European Union (EU)
• human rights
• information technology
• Information Technology (IT)
• machine
• migration
• mobility
• politics
• research
• technology

• Scientific Council for Government Policy, The Hague, The Netherlands

  Huub Dijstelbloem

• University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

  Albert Meijer

ALEX BALCH is a research fellow in the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, based at ICOSS, uk MICHIEL BESTERS is a researcher at the Rathenau Institute, The Netherlands DENNIS BROEDERS is coordinator of the Policy, Information and Technology project group at ISS, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands FRANS BROM is head of the department of Technology Assessment of the Rathenau Institute and Professor of Ethics of Technology Assessment at Utrecht University, The Netherlands EVELIEN BROUWER is Assistant Professor of constitutional and administrative law in the Law School of the Utrecht University, The Netherlands HUUB DIJSTELBLOEM is Lecturer in Philosophy of Science at the University of Amsterdam and Senior Researcher at the Scientific Council for Government Policy in The Hague (WRR), The Netherlands ANDREW GEDDES is Chair of the Department of Politics of the University of Sheffield, UK ALBERT MEIJER is Associate Professor of public administration and policy sciences at Utrecht University, The Netherlands IRMA VAN DER PLOEG is Professor of Infonomics and New Media at Zuyd University, Maastricht/Heerlen, The Netherlands ISOLDE SPRENKELS is a PhD student and junior researcher at the Infonomics and New Media Research Centre at Zuyd University, The Netherlands

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