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

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.

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

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.

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

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

by Louis Everuss
Digital Mobilities and Smart Borders: How Digital Technologies Transform Migration and Sovereign Borders

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

by Louis Everuss

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783110714166
Publisher: De Gruyter
Publication date: 07/22/2024
Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences , #5
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 233
File size: 2 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

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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