Nina Amelung is a sociologist and research fellow at ICS-Ulisboa. She obtained her PhD in Sociology from the Technical University of Berlin. Her research interests lie at the intersection of Sociology of Culture, Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Critical Migration, Border and Surveillance Studies. While addressing how particular social groups and wider publics are affected by different biometric database systems, she explores relations between emergent publics, matters of citizenship and biometric technologies applied in migration and crime control regimes.
Research Fellow: Sociology
Institute of Social Sciences (ICS), University of Lisbon (UL)
In her current project entitled Affected (non)publics: Social and political implications of transnational biometric databases in migration and crime control (AFFECT), Nina explores the social and political implications of growing database infrastructures – in particular their design, governance and implementation – on understanding affected publics. She is co-founder of STS-MIGTEC, an independent network of scholars at the intersection of science and technology studies (STS) and critical migration, security and border studies.
Keywords: securitization of migration, vulnerable migrants, crime & migration control, biometrics & databases, science & technology studies