• DOI:10.1080/17450101.2017.1403777
Corpus ID: 149261867

Standardizing security: the business case politics of borders

@article{Leese2018StandardizingST,
  title={Standardizing security: the business case politics of borders},
  author={M. Leese},
  journal={Mobilities},
  year={2018},
  volume={13},
  pages={261 - 275}
}

• M. Leese
• Published 2018
• Business
• Mobilities

Abstract This paper discusses the role of standards and standardization in the regulation of security and mobility through the EU’s Mandate M/487 and biometric Automated Border Control (ABC) systems. It argues that the choice for facial recognition as the standard biometric modality was largely pre-configured through the inertia of sedimented infrastructures, and that the restructuring of the EU external borders in the case of ABC therefore to a certain extent lacks political agency. Instead… Expand

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