Border control and blurred responsibilities at the airport
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Border control and blurred responsibilities at the airport. / Møhl, Perle.
Security Blurs: The Politics of Plural Security Provision. ed. / Tessa Diphoorn; Erella Grassiani. London : Routledge, 2019. p. 118-135 (Routledge Studies in Anthropology).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Border control and blurred responsibilities at the airport
AU - Møhl, Perle
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Border Security at Copenhagen Airport is maintained on a daily basis through the activities, intents and perspectives of a multiple and unstable assemblage of public and private actors and technologies. Two opposed types of motivations play the leading roles in this work: on the one hand, securing the national borders against what are defined as intruders and threats and, on the other, a general pursuit of economic advantage and profit. Security plays a part in both, in itself becoming a negotiable commodity.Based on fieldwork among border police in Copenhagen Airport, the chapter examines two instances of control where the actual processes of decision-making and allocation of responsibilities and authority are blurred. The examples concern, for one, the negotiations for setting an acceptable threshold for facial recognition in an automated border control technology, and, secondly, the discretionary work of individual border guards in the profiling of passengers and the detection of potential threats.As the chapter shows, the airport is a privileged site for analysing the blurring of security responsibilities, decision-making and ongoing negotiations between different parties, because border security is produced by both public and private actors, and because the economic and the security stakes in this place are so obviously entwined and guide most interactions.
AB - Border Security at Copenhagen Airport is maintained on a daily basis through the activities, intents and perspectives of a multiple and unstable assemblage of public and private actors and technologies. Two opposed types of motivations play the leading roles in this work: on the one hand, securing the national borders against what are defined as intruders and threats and, on the other, a general pursuit of economic advantage and profit. Security plays a part in both, in itself becoming a negotiable commodity.Based on fieldwork among border police in Copenhagen Airport, the chapter examines two instances of control where the actual processes of decision-making and allocation of responsibilities and authority are blurred. The examples concern, for one, the negotiations for setting an acceptable threshold for facial recognition in an automated border control technology, and, secondly, the discretionary work of individual border guards in the profiling of passengers and the detection of potential threats.As the chapter shows, the airport is a privileged site for analysing the blurring of security responsibilities, decision-making and ongoing negotiations between different parties, because border security is produced by both public and private actors, and because the economic and the security stakes in this place are so obviously entwined and guide most interactions.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - security studies
KW - airport studies
KW - technology
KW - border control
KW - policing
KW - political economy
KW - threshold negotiations
KW - discretion
KW - random checks
U2 - 10.4324/9781351127387
DO - 10.4324/9781351127387
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-0-8153-5676-9
T3 - Routledge Studies in Anthropology
SP - 118
EP - 135
BT - Security Blurs
A2 - Diphoorn, Tessa
A2 - Grassiani, Erella
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -
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