Europe’s Border and Surveillance Technologies advances a postcolonial reading of border and surveillance technologies by conceptualizing the present-day European border regime as part of a racial-colonial complex that stretches from the contemporary refugee crisis to the colonial era. From the days of colonial conquest to the economic exploitation under the Mandate System and recent years’ interventions in the “Orient,” the book provides a longue durée perspective to uncover the unacknowledged legacies that have sedimented into the bureaucratic and technological backbone of the European border regime. Europe’s pre-digital colonial history continues to shape the political present and has morphed into EU border technologies, media infrastructure, classification apparatuses, and weaponry. By locating border and surveillance infrastructure between Europe’s former colonies and the current migrant crisis, Madörin lays bare the colonial fabric of late-modern surveillance technologies––the colonial antecedents of today’s border apparatuses.
- ISBN10 1538165031
- ISBN13 9781538165034
- Publish Date 15 October 2022
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 200
- Language English