Digital identities, algorithms and exclusion

How digitised borders assess people

The type of state border studied in this book is produced by a relationship between a state sovereign authority and a people. It is a relationship based on exclusion; whether a sovereign authority decides to allow a person to enter the political community of a state or cast them out. This book examines how this process – the ‘sovereign decision’ – is being digitised, and what this means for state borders and the social and political relations they produce and impact. The previous chapter took a broad focus, studying how digitisation changes the spatial and temporal organisation of state borders enacted by the sovereign decision. In contrast, this chapter narrows ...

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