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This book focuses on the Visa Information System (VIS): a
large-scale data infrastructure interconnecting a multiplicity of
state authorities that enact border security and migration
management in the European Union. The VIS is embedded within a
setting of pan-European IT systems that filter international
mobility, identify threatening elements, hamper the travels of
poor, racialized, and alienated subjects, while at the same time
facilitate the circulation of those expected to generate financial
and other kinds of capital. The book examines the engineering of
the VIS by analyzing how it was designed before its deployment in
the field of border security, and how it is maintained to ensure
continuous and secure operation. It illustrates how engineering
processes that render the VIS functional are not just
technoscientific, but inherently political, as they (re)configure
and maintain the power to govern international mobility by digital
means.
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