Engineering Digitised Borders

Designing and Managing the Visa Information System

By: Georgios Glouftsios

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Hardcover | 30 July 2021

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176 Pages

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This book focuses on the Visa Information System (VIS): a large-scale data infrastructure that interconnects a multiplicity of state authorities that enact border security and migration management in the European Union. The VIS is embedded within a setting of pan-European IT systems that filter international mobility, sort-out its threatening elements, hamper the travels of poor, racialized, and alienated subjects, while at the same time facilitate the circulation of those expected to generate financial and other kinds of capital. I inquire into the engineering of the VIS by analyzing how it was designed before its deployment in the field of border security, and how it is maintained to ensure that it operates continuously and securely. My argument is that engineering processes that render the VIS functional are not just technoscientific, but inherently political, as they (re)configure and maintain the power to govern international mobility by digital means.

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