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Standardizing security: the business case politics of borders.
- Source :
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Mobilities . Apr2018, Vol. 13 Issue 2, p261-275. 15p. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- This paper discusses the role of standards and standardization in the regulation of security and mobility through the EU’s Mandate M/487 and biometric Automated Border Control (ABC) systems. It argues that the choice for facial recognition as the standard biometric modality was largely pre-configured through the inertia of sedimented infrastructures, and that the restructuring of the EU external borders in the case of ABC therefore to a certain extent lacks political agency. Instead, standardization here follows an approach of business case politics that forecloses alternative solutions, and notably becomes productive of specific types of accelerated mobilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17450101
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Mobilities
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 128358051
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2017.1403777