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Europe’s Datafied Borders: Technology, Control, and (In)Justice book cover

1st Edition

Europe’s Datafied Borders Technology, Control, and (In)Justice

By Philippa Metcalfe Copyright 2027
260 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This monograph examines the growing datafication of European borders, exploring how digital technologies reshape migration governance. The book reveals how such technologies increasingly function as tools of exclusion, surveillance, and control for those whose mobility rights are restricted – including people seeking asylum and illegalised migrants. As such, the book explores the datafied element... Read more

1. Introduction 2. Conceptualising borders; control, ‘crisis’, and datafication 28 3. A European border regime 4. Control through identification and categorisation; the power of a fingerprint 5. Containment through everyday surveillance: Asylum, aid and tech 6. Dispossession through data infrastructure; technology as a tool of immigration policy 7. “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature”: Data (in)justice at, and beyond, the border 218

Biography

Philippa Metcalfe is a Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. She previously completed her PhD at Cardiff University’s Data Justice Lab as part of the ERC-funded DATAJUSTICE project. Her research examines the politics of datafication, with a particular focus on the human impact of border technologies and digital surveillance. Her work has been published in Geopolitics, First Monday, and International Political Sociology.  Alongside her academic work, she is involved in a number of self-organised projects that work to challenge the state violence of borders.

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