Digital Mobilities and Smart Borders
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Louis Everuss
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
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Acknowledgements
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Contents
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Introduction: Sovereignty and mobilities in a digitised world
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The spatial and temporal organisation of digitised borders
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Digital identities, algorithms and exclusion
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Modern bordering agency
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The digitisation of travel
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Travellers vs borders
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Conclusion: Reimagining border digitisation
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References
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Index
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