1 The Truth of the Error: Making Identity and Security through Biometric Discrimination

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction: Bodies as Evidence 1
4. 1 The Truth of the Error: Making Identity and Security through Biometric Discrimination 24
5. 2 Injured by the Border: Security Buildup, Migrant Bodies, and Emergency Response in Southern Arizona 43
6. 3 E-Terrify: Securitized Immigration and Biometric Surveillance in the Workplace 67
7. 4 “Dead-Bodies- at- the- Border”: Distributed Evidence and Emerging Forensic Infrastructure for Identification 89
8. 5 The Transitional Lives of Crimes against Humanity: Forensic Evidence under Changing Political Circumstances 110
9. 6 Policing Future Crimes 137
10. 7 “Intelligence” and “Evidence”: Sovereign Authority and the Differences That Words Make 159
11. 8 The Secrecy/Threat Matrix 175
12. 9 What Do You Want? Evidence and Fantasy in the War on Terror 201
13. Conclusion: Discontinuities and Diversity 228
14. Contributors 237
15. Index 241