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Border Necrotechnics: Automation, Surveillance, and the Racial Politics of Migration Control

Border Necrotechnics: Automation, Surveillance, and the Racial Politics of Migration Control

Molnar, Petra

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Indigeneity and Crimina

CriminologyGeneral SociologyImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 3032320690
ISBN13: 9783032320698
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Aug 14 2026
Pages: 163
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This open access book examines how emerging border technologies such as AI-driven risk scoring, autonomous surveillance towers, biometric identity systems, predictive analytics, and algorithmic decision tools reshape the criminalization and securitization of migration. Positioned at the intersection of criminology, critical migration studies, and socio-technical analysis, this book argues that AI and other autonomous surveillance technologies do not simply manage migration: instead, these tools actively produce racialized suspicion, legitimize expanded policing, and enable new forms of pre-emptive control over people-on-the-move, often leading to adverse outcomes including discrimination, racism, and even death. The term border necrotechnics describes the assemblage of automated systems, infrastructures, and practices through which states and corporations decide which lives are rendered killable, deportable, or indefinitely surveilled at and beyond the border.

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