Migrants in the Digital Periphery

New Urban Frontiers of Control
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-520-39701-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 420 g

As the fortification of Europe's borders and its hostile immigration terrain has taken shape, so too have the biometric and digital surveillance industries. And when US Immigration Customs Enforcement aggressively reinforced its program of raids, detention, and family separation, it was powered by Silicon Valley corporations. In cities of refuge, where communities on the move once lived in anonymity and proximity to familial and diaspora networks, the possibility for escape is diminishing.

As cities rely increasingly on tech companies to develop digital urban infrastructures for accessing information, identification, services, and socioeconomic life at large, they also invite the border to encroach further on migrant communities, networks, and bodies. In this book, Matt Mahmoudi unveils how the unsettling convergence of Silicon Valley logics, austere and xenophobic migration management practices, and racial capitalism has allowed tech companies to close in on the final frontiers of fugitivity—and suggests how we might counteract their machines through our own refusal.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mahmoudi, Matt

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Mess- und Automatisierungstechnik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Ethische Themen & Debatten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments 
List of Acronyms 
Glossary 

Introduction 

PART 1: RACE, BORDER, AND CAPITAL ENTANGLEMENTS
1. Racism Is a Feature (Not a Bug) 
2. The Making of the Digital Periphery 

PART 2: RACE IN THE DIGITAL CITY
3. Xenophobic Roots, Tolerant Facades 
4. The Digital Antisanctuary of New York 
5. Digital Refugeeness in Berlin 

PART 3: MACHINE-BREAKING, NEO-LUDDISM, AND FUGITIVITY
6. Disciplining Mobilities in the Digital Periphery 

Conclusion 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Matt Mahmoudi is Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge, where he works on racialized borders in digital cities. He has led Amnesty International's research on biometrics from New York City to Palestine and coedited Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence.