Migrants in the Digital Periphery New Urban Frontiers of Control
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Book argues that tech firms turn cities into testing grounds for border control, using biometric tools (fingerprints, iris, face, DNA), predictive algorithms and connected kiosks to make migrants hypervisible. Case studies: IDNYC 1.3M enrolled is used as a policing proxy; LinkNYC kiosks with 3 cameras collect Bluetooth/Wi‑Fi traces correlated with 343 deportations (Jan–Oct 2018). Humanitarian biometrics (Iris Card, WFP) and Israeli-built surveillance towers are deployed; many refugee apps report “20,000 users” via Facebook likes and fail upwards into contracts. Resistance is grassroots refusal, not tech fixes.
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