University of Twente Student Theses
Emotional detection in automated border control : a discourse analysis of the case iBorderCtrl, 2016-2019
Preu, M.S. (2021) Emotional detection in automated border control : a discourse analysis of the case iBorderCtrl, 2016-2019.
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| Abstract: | This thesis seeks to advance the already productive encounter between border studies and biopolitics. It critically assesses the experimentation with an Intelligent Portable Control System (iBorderCtrl), with technologies adopting the future development of the Schengen Border Management, at EU level. Significantly, it suggests that a Foucauldian account of biopolitical security can help analyzing how iBorderCtrl is envisioned to promote the further development of automated borders. In that sense, the question, how iBorderCtrl can be interpreted as a biopolitical tool contributing to the further development of a Fortress Europe, will form the basis of this thesis. In order to conduct a Foucauldian discourse analysis (FDA), official program documents and research results such as integration plans and annual reports submitted to the European Commission were collected. These will be complemented with media coverage on the project for a more sophisticated approach. A biopolitical approach conceptualizes iBorderCtrl as a form of power exercise, which helps to understand the current efforts to render iBorderCtrl as a tool to speed up border crossing, while securing and smartening EU borders. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 89 political science |
| Programme: | Management Society and Technology BSc (56654) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/87627 |
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