Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence: Resisting Borders in an Age of Global Apartheid

Imperialist states have constructed a new digital fortress to enforce their borders, using surveillance, control, and violence. This volume exposes these insidious means of surveillance and control, and offers analyses of how the high-tech system of borders developed and inspiring stories of resistance. Contributors are charting a new path forward to subvert the status quo and help us imagine a world without borders.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 300 pages
Publication date: 13 February 2024
Publisher: Haymarket Books

The border regimes of imperialist states have subjected migrants to brutal oppression worldwide. To enforce their borders, these states have constructed a new digital fortress, employing far-reaching and ever-evolving new technologies. This groundbreaking volume exposes these insidious means of surveillance, control, and violence.

In the name of "smart" borders, the United States and Europe have turned to private companies to develop a neocolonial laboratory now deployed against the Global South, borderlands, and routes of migration. They have established immigrant databases, digital IDs, electronic tracking systems, facial recognition software, data fusion centers, and more, all to more "efficiently" categorize and control human beings and their movement.

These technologies rarely capture widespread public attention or outrage, but they are quietly remaking our world, scaling up colonial efforts of times past to divide desirables from undesirables, rich from poor, expat from migrant, and citizen from undocumented. The essays and case studies in Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence shed light on this threat, offering analyses of how the high-tech system of borders developed and inspiring stories of resistance to it.

The organizers, journalists, and scholars in these pages are charting a new path forward, employing creative tools to subvert the status quo. They are organizing globally against high-tech border imperialism and helping us imagine a world without borders.

Contributors:

Nasma Ahmed, Khalid Alexander, Sara Baker, Lea Beckmann, Wafa Ben-Hassine, Ruha Benjamin, Maike Bohn, Gracie Mae Bradley, Margaret Cheesman, J. Carlos Lara Gálvez, Timmy Châu, Arely Cruz-Santiago, Ida Danewid, Nick Estes, Rafael Evangelista, Katy Fallon, Marwa Fatafta, Ryan Gerety, Ben Green, Jeff Helper, Nisha Kapoor, Lilly Irani,.

Weight: 516g
Dimension: 152 x 229 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781642599114