Modern bordering systems and digital identities: data doubles, enrolment exclusion and the creation of digital polities
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2024
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Everuss, L.
Hsu, E.L.
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Elliott, A.
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Source details - Title: The De Gruyter Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, Identity and Technology Studies, 2024 / Elliott, A. (ed./s), Ch.12, pp.211-232
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Digital identities play a vital role in the administration of modern bordering systems. In order to make state-sanctioned border crossings, people increasingly require digital depictions of themselves. This chapter seeks to critically analyse how this new digital bordering regime functions. It covers the increasingly important roles which ‘data doubles’ and ‘comparative digital identities’ play in sovereign travel decisions. The chapter also theorises how digital bordering systems uphold existing, and can be productive of new, forms of social disparity. This involves exploring how complex algorithms and the use of big data can generate bias and distortion in digital bordering processes. The chapter concludes with a discussion of how the deployment of various metaphors influences how digital bordering technologies are conceptualised, which has implications for the ways digital bordering systems are subjected to critical scrutiny.
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Copyright 2024 Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Access Condition Notes: Accepted manuscript available after 1 October 2025