Edited Volume: Borders, Sovereignty, and Technological Power in the Digital Age (Edited Volume Peter Lang)
Organization: Peter Lang
Event: Edited Volume Peter Lang
Part I — Digital Technologies and Border-Crossing Procedures covers biometric and facial recognition systems, predictive analytics and automated risk profiling, smart borders and everyday surveillance, digital IDs, e-visas and interoperable databases, and regional systems such as EUROSUR, ETIAS, and Frontex.
Part II — Security, Sovereignty and Digitalisation addresses cybersecurity and data protection at borders, digital sovereignty and state authority, algorithmic discrimination and mobility inequality, legal and human rights challenges of automated control, and refugee datafication and humanitarian surveillance.
Part III — Migration, Geopolitics and International Relations examines the geopolitics of digital border governance, global inequalities and digital capacity, private technology corporations and border-tech vendors, digital borders in Africa, MENA, South Asia and Latin America, and AI, climate migration and future border trajectories.
WE ESPECIALLY ENCOURAGE SUBMISSIONS THAT
? Offer comparative or Global South perspectives beyond Euro-American frameworks
? Address private sector involvement, data colonialism, and surveillance capitalism
? Connect digital border transformation to mobility justice or climate change
? Combine interdisciplinary methods across political science, law, sociology, STS, and data ethics
? Provide empirically grounded case studies alongside theoretical frameworks
? Examine resistance, activism, and contestation of digital border regimes
Saad Boulahnane