Enacting border security in the digital age: political worlds of data forms, flows and frictions.

Project Information

SECURITY FLOWS

Grant agreement ID: 819213

DOI

10.3030/819213

Project closed

EC signature date 20 March 2019

Start date 1 June 2019

End date 31 May 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 897 826,00

EU contribution

€ 1 897 826,00

Coordinated by

KING'S COLLEGE LONDON
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (17)

How fair can we go in machine learning? Assessing the boundaries of accuracy and fairness

Author(s): Ana Valdivia, Javier Sánchez‐Monedero and Jorge Casillas
Published in: International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Issue 36(4), 2021, Page(s) 1619-1643, ISSN 1098-111X
Publisher: Wiley Periodicals
DOI: 10.1002/int.22354

Collecting, assembling, ordering: Border politics and the invisible data work of asylum

Author(s): Lucrezia Canzutti, Claudia Aradau
Published in: Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, Issue 42, 2025, Page(s) 1242-1259, ISSN 2399-6544
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/23996544241230189

Absent Tech: Data, Violence and (Non)Credibility at the <scp>EU</scp> Borders

Author(s): Lucrezia Canzutti
Published in: International Migration, Issue 63, 2025, ISSN 0020-7985
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/imig.70040

Experimentality, Surplus Data and the Politics of Debilitation in Borderzones

Author(s): Claudia Aradau
Published in: Geopolitics, 2020, Page(s) 1-21, ISSN 1557-3028
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2020.1853103

Review forum

Author(s): Rocco Bellanova, Ryan Burns, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, Jean-Christophe Plantin, Claudia Aradau, Tobias Blanke
Published in: Political Geography, Issue 113, 2024, Page(s) 103115, ISSN 0962-6298
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103115

Reassembling digital archives—strategies for counter-archiving

Author(s): Tobias Blanke
Published in: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Issue 11, 2024, ISSN 2662-9992
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1057/s41599-024-02668-4

Digital–Nondigital Assemblages: Data, Paper Trails, and Migrants’ Scattered Subjectivities at the Border

Author(s): Lucrezia Canzutti; Martina Tazzioli
Published in: International Political Sociology, Issue 3, 2023, ISSN 1749-5679
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1093/ips/olad014

The politics of (non-)knowledge at Europe's borders: Errors, fakes, and subjectivity

Author(s): Claudia Aradau; Sarah Perret
Published in: Review of International Studies, Issue 48(3), 2022, Page(s) 405-424, ISSN 0260-2105
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0260210522000080

Algorithmic Surveillance and the Political Life of Error

Author(s): Claudia Aradau; Tobias Blanke
Published in: Journal for the History of Knowledge, Issue 2(1), 2022, Page(s) 1-11, ISSN 2632-282X
Publisher: The Belgian-Dutch Society for the History of Science and Universities
DOI: 10.5334/jhk.42

THE BIOMETRIC LIVES OF MIGRANTS: BORDERS, DISCRIMINATION AND (IN)JUSTICE

Author(s): Mirca Madianou, Lina Dencik, Claudia Aradau, Linnet Taylor, Philippa Metcalfe, Sarah Perret
Published in: AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2022, ISSN 2162-3317
Publisher: University of Illinois Libraries
DOI: 10.5210/spir.v2020i0.11137

Scripts of Security: Between Contingency and Obduracy

Author(s): Annalisa Pelizza, Claudia Aradau
Published in: Science, Technology, &amp; Human Values, Issue 49, 2025, Page(s) 723-738, ISSN 0162-2439
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/01622439241258822

Violent Ends for Violent Devices? Non-Knowledge and the ‘Unreflexive’ Practices of EU’s Border Security Design

Author(s): Sarah Perret
Published in: Geopolitics, Issue 30, 2025, Page(s) 1125-1149, ISSN 1465-0045
Publisher: Frank Cass Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/14650045.2024.2368626

Neither opaque nor transparent: A transdisciplinary methodology to investigate datafication at the EU borders

Author(s): Ana Valdivia; Claudia Aradau; Tobias Blanke; Sarah Perret
Published in: Big Data&Society, 2022, ISSN 2053-9517
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/20539517221124586

Asylum, Borders, and the Politics of Violence: From Suspicion to Cruelty

Author(s): Claudia Aradau, Lucrezia Canzutti
Published in: Global Studies Quarterly, Issue 2(2), 2022, Page(s) 1-11, ISSN 2634-3797
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/isagsq/ksab041

There is an elephant in the room: towards a critique on the use of fairness in biometrics

Author(s): Ana Valdivia; Júlia Corbera Serrajòrdia; Aneta Swianiewicz
Published in: AI and Ethics, Issue 3, 2023, Page(s) 1407–1422, ISSN 2730-5961
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s43681-022-00249-2

The tangle of digital humanitarianism

Author(s): Claudia Aradau
Published in: London Review of International Law, Issue 11, 2024, Page(s) 523-534, ISSN 2050-6325
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/lril/lrae004

Designs of borders: Security, critique, and the machines

Author(s): Médéric ​​Martin-Mazé, Sarah Perret
Published in: European Journal of International Security, Issue 6(3), 2021, Page(s) 278-300, ISSN 2057-5637
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/eis.2021.8

Monographic books (1)

Algorithmic Reason: The New Government of Self and Other

Author(s): Claudia Aradau; Tobias Blanke
Published in: 2022, ISBN 9780192859624
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192859624.001.0001

Book chapters (5)

Algorithmic security and conflict in a datafied world

Author(s): Claudia Aradau
Published in: Digital International Relations. Technology, Agency and Order, 2023, ISBN 9781003437963
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003437963-11

25 Error

Author(s): Claudia Aradau
Published in: De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Criminology, 2025, Page(s) 215-222
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783111062037-026

Infrastructures of (non)knowledge. Fakes and fear at Europe's borders

Author(s): Claudia Aradau
Published in: Technopolitics and the Making of Europe. Infrastructures of Security, 2023, ISBN 9781003267409
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003267409

Disfare la black box: tracce digitali e burocratiche di geografie migranti

Author(s): Martina Tazzioli, Lucrezia Canzutti
Published in: Migrazioni e governance digitale. Persone e dati alle frontiere dell’Europa, 2024, ISBN 9788829020522
Publisher: Carocci

Algorithmic governmentality: Questions of method

Author(s): Claudia Aradau
Published in: Handbook on Governmentality, 2023, ISBN 9781839108662
Publisher: Cheltenham
DOI: 10.4337/9781839108662.00022

Other (1)

The Burden of Data: Digital tools, evidence and credibility in asylum and immigration courts

Author(s): Thais Lobo, Claudia Aradau
Published in: 2023
Publisher: King's College London