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“Crimmigration Control” across Borders: The Convergence of Migration and Crime Control through Transnational Biometric Databases
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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.
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Crimmigrant other bioborders Eurodac
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Citação
Amelung, N. (2021). “Crimmigration Control” across Borders: The Convergence of Migration and Crime Control through Transnational Biometric Databases. Historical Social Research, 46(3), 151-177
Editora
GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences