Modes of Bio-Bordering: The Hidden (Dis)integration of Europe

Offers an innovative analytical approach as a tool for cross-country comparison to make explicit the rather invisible bordering practices along transnationally expansive biometric technologies. Provides a panorama on cross-country dynamics, as well as the different countries’ situations by demonstrating how the particularities of national policy regulations and judicial traditions, as well as technological infrastructures and techno-political cultural repertoires, either enforce, complement or counter the bio-bordering dynamics of the EU. Examines how national autonomy and sovereignty is claimed, negotiated and suspended not only through legal and political bordering processes, but also through scientific and technical bordering practices that correspond with techno-political cultures and manifest specific regimes for biological data retention and exchange.

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Written by Nina Amelung, Rafaela Granja, and Helena Machado