Societies of immigration control: the transactional subject of British borders after Brexit.
Digital immigration status was implemented in Britain after Brexit, and it soon became a central component of the 'hostile environment' system of deputised border management. This paper argues that, in the presented case, digital technology reconfigured immigration status by shifting its operational...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 51; no. 14; pp. 3610 - 3629 |
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Aug2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=187097713&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 187097713 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 1369183X 56F jtl: Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies issn: 1369183X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Aug2025 vid: 51 iid: 14 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 187097713 10.1080/1369183X.2025.2513158 ppf: 3610 ppct: 19 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 531KB tig: atl: Societies of immigration control: the transactional subject of British borders after Brexit. aug: au: Jablonowski, Kuba affil: School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK In loving memory of Professor Clive Barnett (1968–2021). su: Immigration status Immigration enforcement Biometric identification Border security British withdrawal from the European Union, 2016-2020 United Kingdom sug: subj: United Kingdom Immigration status Immigration enforcement Biometric identification Border security British withdrawal from the European Union, 2016-2020 keyword: Border control data practices digital identity immigration status problematization ab: Digital immigration status was implemented in Britain after Brexit, and it soon became a central component of the 'hostile environment' system of deputised border management. This paper argues that, in the presented case, digital technology reconfigured immigration status by shifting its operational logic from inscription towards computation. It thus produced trabnsactional subjects of border control. In paper-based systems, bordering practices slot individuals into relatively stable socio-legal categories when their status is documented. In contrast, the online-only system analysed here computes identity and status in real-time to enact legible subjects of border control. Its algorithmic logic computes biographic, biometric and immigration data – such as pending applications, grants of status, refusals, and rejections – to resolve records drawn from separate casework platforms and data stores into a singular identity and thus enact the subject of border control. These findings contribute to scholarship on digital borders, which shows that digitisation enables novel modes of immigration governance. However, the paper contests the notion that computation of personal attributes generates 'data doubles' as 'traceable and sortable objects' of border enforcement. Instead, it develops the notion of the transactional subject to show that ongoing computation of identity and acess becomes the overriding logic of border governance. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2025 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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