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"Crimmigration Control" across Borders: The Convergence of Migration and Crime Control through Transnational Biometric Databases
"Krimmigration" über Grenzen: Die Verwobenheit von Migrations- und Kriminalitätskontrolle durch transnationale biometrische Datenbanken
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Abstract New cross-border regimes of biometrics and databasing in the EU are contributing to a conflation of the treatment of irregularity, asylum seeking, and criminality. States provide migrants' biometric data to transnational databases that are increasingly interoperable in the area of migration and crim... view more
New cross-border regimes of biometrics and databasing in the EU are contributing to a conflation of the treatment of irregularity, asylum seeking, and criminality. States provide migrants' biometric data to transnational databases that are increasingly interoperable in the area of migration and crime control, to be accessible for state-based law enforcement actors. This article uses the case of Eurodac - a biometric database initially developed for migration control purposes - to explore the ongoing expansion of law enforcement access to the collected information for the purpose of crime control. The article studies how borders are selectively made permeable for biometric data flows in the light of "crimmigration" discourses. It combines insights from critical migration, border, and security studies that address the increasing overlapping of migration and crime control in policy discourse, law, and surveillance technologies. The study addresses the reconfiguration of crimmigration - and the normalisation and diversification of the figure of the "crimmigrant other" - through the expansion of cross-border flows of biometric data by law enforcement.... view less
Keywords
surveillance; mobility; EU; cross-border cooperation; data bank; migrant; asylum seeker; data exchange; criminality; migration; data capture; criminalization
Classification
Criminal Sociology, Sociology of Law
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Free Keywords
Crimmigrant other; bioborders; Eurodac; fingerprint data; data subjects; Crimmigration; borders; migration management; crime control; biometric data; body
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 151-177
Journal
Historical Social Research, 46 (2021) 3
Issue topic
Borders as Places of Control: Fixing, Shifting, and Reinventing State Borders
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed