“Biometric borders extend the governing of mobility into domains that regulate multiple aspects of daily life” (L. Amoore, 2006). Discuss.

Question 1

What is an easy way to engage with this question?

Answer 1

It is not just biometrics which extend borders into everyday life, but a multitude of things

Question 2

What is an example of one other thing that extends the border into everyday life?

Answer 2

Nyers the hostility of the everyday interaction -> how bordering is brought into the everyday by people’s reactions to others.

Question 3

What is a useful critique of Amoore’s (2006) argument

Answer 3

That she does not give enough weight to traditional borders, describing them only as one of many

Question 4

Migration is not novel, rather

Answer 4

the nature has changed significantly. As a proportion of the global population, the number living outside their country of origin is no more than directly preceding the first world war

Question 5

Other than Nyers, what is another way other than biometrics that the broker is extended into everyday life?

Answer 5

Surveillance

Question 6

What are the paragraphs?

Answer 6

1) How has political geography understood borders as more than a physical boundary
2) Understanding the border as a verb, as does Newman 2006, rather than as a noun
3) relate to Wendy Brown to critique Amoore
4) relate to the physical border of a country as still important

Question 7

What do Amoore and Hall 2009 consider

Answer 7

How the x-ray machine at the airport looks at the body itself, rather than simply trying to regulate it.

Question 8

When discussing how political geography has understood the border, what aspect of Agnew’s territorial trap is useful to draw on?

Answer 8

That there is a misconception of the state as the container for society

Question 9

Who argues in 2016 that the border produce rather reflect states?

Answer 9

Bridget Anderson

Question 10

Who acknowledges that, in general, bordering practices go well beyond the border into the state itself?

Answer 10

Balibar 1998

Question 11

What case study does Amoore use>

Answer 11

USVISIT

Question 12

What is the US-VISIT programme?

Answer 12

10 biometrics taken of most non-US citizens entering the country

Question 13

How can Foucault integrate to this idea of biometrics?

Answer 13

The idea of the panopticon; if someone is being monitored everyday life, then this compels conformity to the nation state

Question 14

If we are talking about borders in everyday life, then what must be understood?

Answer 14

Affect

Question 15

How does Amoore relate to Bratten’s idea of the stack

Answer 15

She critiques his idea, saying that rather than weakening sovereignty, such technology actually affirms it

Question 16

How can you engage with the critique that Amoore presents of Bratten’s idea?

Answer 16

Need to say, like Wendy Brown’s walled states idea, that Biometric control is in fact a desperate bid to cling to sovereignty in the context of its decline

Question 17

what is a good avenue of analysis for arguing that the biometrics border is attempt to control an increasingly incoherent and mobile population?

Answer 17

Short term and long term, in the short term affirms sovereignty but in the longer term it is just a plaster

Question 18

What concept must be understood as a discourse which allows biometrics to become so well integrated into society?

Answer 18

The emergency, be it in relation to terror or to immigration

Question 19

What is the consequence of the emergency

Answer 19

The securitisation of everyday life

Question 20

Who talks about the state of emergency being integrated into the everyday politics of Western societies?

Answer 20

Minca 2005

Question 21

Who applies the idea of symbolic violence to the US visit programme?

Answer 21

Hakli 2007

Question 22

What does the US-Visit programme base its classifications on?

Answer 22

Previous databases, mapping previous structures onto the risk of the immigrants

Question 23

What does the US_VISIT programme do to bodies at the border?

Answer 23

It means that travellers such as business travellers have a smooth entrance, whilst those deemed to be risky are subject to extended checks and delays

Question 24

What is the technical term for what the US Visit programme does?

Answer 24

Risk profiling

Question 25

What is the name of the Minca 2005 article

Answer 25

the return of the camp

Question 26

As well as technologies associate with the border, what else needs to be viewed as a technology

Answer 26

The border itself