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International Border Security: Biometrics & Surveillance Technologies

International Border Security: Biometrics & Surveillance Technologies. Benjamin J. Muller, PhD Associate Professor Department of Political Science, King ’ s University College Centre for American Studies, Western University Canada. International Borders. Defining Borders and Borderlands

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International Border Security: Biometrics & Surveillance Technologies

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  1. International Border Security:Biometrics & Surveillance Technologies • Benjamin J. Muller, PhD • Associate Professor • Department of Political Science, King’s University College • Centre for American Studies, Western University Canada

  2. International Borders • Defining Borders and Borderlands • More or less Borders? • Biometrics & Surveillance • Current & Future Challenges

  3. International Borders • “Borders are not where they are supposed to be”Nick Vaughan-Williams

  4. Borderlands

  5. More or Less Borders? • Post-1989 “Borderless World” (K. Ohmae, T. Friedman) • 1990s “sovereign breach” • 11 September 2001 - Re-bordering

  6. Borders & Technology • To what extent has the increasing reliance on biometric and surveillance technologies helped to transform the international border regime?

  7. Biometrics & Surveillance • From examination to pre-assessing risk • “governing through risk” • virtual borders • “policy laundering” • multi-lane strategy

  8. Current & Future Challenges • Liberty & Security - not opposites on a spectrum • (De)Valuing Mobility & Circulation • Relying on “Data Doubles” • International oversight?

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