Modes of Bio-Bordering

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This open access book explores how biometric data is increasingly flowing across borders in order to limit, control and contain the mobility of selected people, namely criminalized populations. It introduces the concept of bio-bordering, using it to capture reverse patterns of bordering and ordering practices linked to transnational biometric data exchange regimes. The concept is useful to reconstruct how the territorial foundations of national state autonomy are partially reclaimed and, at the same time, partially purposefully suspended. The book focuses on the Prüm system, which facilitates the mandatory exchange of forensic DNA data amongst EU Member States. The Prüm system is an underexplored phenomenon, representing diverse instances of bio-bordering and providing a complex picture of the hidden (dis)integration of Europe. Particular legal, scientific, technical and political dimensions related to the governance and uses of biometric technologies in Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and the United Kingdom are specifically explored to demonstrate both similar and distinct patterns.
This open access book explores how biometric data is increasingly flowing across borders in order to limit, control and contain the mobility of selected people, namely criminalized populations. It introduces the concept of bio-bordering, using it to capture reverse patterns of bordering and ordering practices linked to transnational biometric data exchange regimes. The concept is useful to reconstruct how the territorial foundations of national state autonomy are partially reclaimed and, at the same time, partially purposefully suspended. The book focuses on the Prüm system, which facilitates the mandatory exchange of forensic DNA data amongst EU Member States. The Prüm system is an underexplored phenomenon, representing diverse instances of bio-bordering and providing a complex picture of the hidden (dis)integration of Europe. Particular legal, scientific, technical and political dimensions related to the governance and uses of biometric technologies in Germany, the Netherlands,Poland, Portugal and the United Kingdom are specifically explored to demonstrate both similar and distinct patterns.
Offers an innovative analytical approach as a tool for cross-country comparison to make explicit the rather invisible bordering practices along transnationally expansive biometric technologies. Provides a panorama on cross-country dynamics, as well as the different countries’ situations by demonstrating how the particularities of national policy regulations and judicial traditions, as well as technological infrastructures and techno-political cultural repertoires, either enforce, complement or counter the bio-bordering dynamics of the EU. Examines how national autonomy and sovereignty is claimed, negotiated and suspended not only through legal and political bordering processes, but also through scientific and technical bordering practices that correspond with techno-political cultures and manifest specific regimes for biological data retention and exchange.

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“This book is an extremely innovative comparative analysis between different national approaches to bio-bordering in the EU from a sociological and criminological perspective. It provides not only very valuable insights into the history and working of biometric databases in the EU, but also into the legal, political and policing systems of four EU Member States and the United Kingdom. The book impressively highlights EU blindness to national systems but also possibilities for harmonisation by science.” (Dr Saskia Hufnagel, Queen Mary University of London, Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law)
“Borders do much more than delineate states, territories and populations. By exploring the development of DNA databases in Europe, this adventurous book carefully constructs the concept of bio-bordering. This book convincingly adds a next chapter to our understanding of borders and the connections and disconnections they make between political bodies, human bodies and technologies.”(Prof Dr Huub Dijstelbloem, University of Amsterdam, Department of Philosophy)
“This book marks a significant development of a field of study that has emerged since the end of last century. Building upon prior studies of bordering and surveillance, this book marks a new milestone, providing an important new lens for understanding forensic genetics and trans-national law enforcement—which has so far remained relatively under-reported, and certainly under-theorised.” (Dr Carole McCartney, Professor of Law & Criminal Justice, Northumbria University)
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