Journal Article10.1016/J.POLGEO.2006.02.001
Biometric borders: Governing mobilities in the war on terror
TL;DR: The concept of the biometric border was proposed in this paper to signal a dual-faced phenomenon in the contemporary war on terror: the turn to scientific technologies and managerial expertise in the politics of border management; and the exercise of biopower such that the bodies of migrants and travellers themselves become sites of multiple encoded boundaries.
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About: This article is published in Political Geography. The article was published on 01 Mar 2006. The article focuses on the topics: Terrorism & Homeland security.
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