Digital Mobilities and Smart Borders: How Digital Technologies Transform Migration and Sovereign Borders

Louis Everuss

Published by De Gruyter 2024

Digital Mobilities and Smart Borders

How Digital Technologies Transform Migration and Sovereign Borders

Louis Everuss

Volume 5 in the series De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110714050

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About this book

From smart gates and drone patrols to e-visas and mobile GPS apps, digital technologies are becoming a ubiquitous feature of state borders and travel. The embedding of digital technologies into bordering and travel processes is reshaping the ways people move around the world, as well as the means sovereign states use to control and facilitate that movement. Digital Mobilities studies these changes and examines how ‘digitisation’ is remaking the very fabric of state sovereignty, territory, and borders.

Some of the core bordering and travel transitions prompted by digitisation that are examined in Digital Mobilities include the spatial and temporal reorganisation of borders; the algorithmic assessment of travellers as ‘data doubles’; the reformulation of border agency, or who or what performs the border; the digital augmentation of international travel; and the new tensions and conflicts arising between smart borders and digital mobilities. Understanding these transitions is essential for policy makers, advocates, and members of the public to comprehend both the exceptional opportunities and monumental risks posed by the embedding of digital technologies into borders and travel.

Rigorously analyses issues of contemporary and pressing scholarly concern.
Takes a global and comparative approach.
Explores the potential for the equitable and sustainable digitisation of borders.

Author / Editor information

Dr Louis Everuss - a Research Associate and Coordinator of the Hawke EU Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the University of South Australia. His primary research interests are located in the sociological study of migration, globalization, digitisation and sovereignty. Recently his work has sought to develop new conceptions of state sovereignty that take account of the constitutive nature of mobilities. His work has been published or accepted for publication in highly regarded scholarly journals, including Political Geography, Applied Mobilities, Borderlands: Culture, Politics, Law and Earth, and the Journal of Sociology.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction: Sovereignty and mobilities in a digitised world Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
The spatial and temporal organisation of digitised borders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
Digital identities, algorithms and exclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Modern bordering agency Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
The digitisation of travel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Travellers vs borders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Conclusion: Reimagining border digitisation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars, undergraduate and research students of Migration Studies, Politics and Sociology; informed general public.
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 226
Keywords: Sociology; Politics of Digitisation; State Borders; Global Migration; Digital Enhancement of Migration; Smart Borders; International Travel; Territory; Nation States; Exclusion

eBook

Published: July 22, 2024
ISBN: 9783110714050

Hardcover

Published: July 22, 2024
ISBN: 9783110713978