Biometric Capture

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" Biometric Capture "
Irene Fubara-Manuel

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1063822
Doc. No	:	LA107451
Call No	:	‭10.1163/18725465-01201002‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Irene Fubara-Manuel
Title & Author	:	Biometric Capture [Article]\ Irene Fubara-Manuel
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	African Diaspora
Date	:	2020
Volume/ Issue Number	:	12/1-2
Page No	:	117–141
Abstract	:	The current system of the surveillance of migrants relies on biometric capture. To be captured is to be codified into machine-readable representations. This paper merges technological codifications with political discourse to explore the disproportionate capturing of black migrants in the UK. Using the historical treatment of Nigerian migrants in the UK as an illustration, this paper interrogates how contemporary technologies are used to codify and confine black migrants. This paper explores works from digital artists – Keith Piper and Joy Buolamwini – to address this codification of blackness using biometric technology. It calls for new technological cultures of coding that centre the disruption of violent systems of capture. Failure is defined as this disruption of hegemonic systems of codification and capture that aim to subjugate black communities. This paper stresses that it is only when technologies of capture fail that black and migrant communities can truly experience digital freedom.
Descriptor	:	African Studies
Descriptor	:	biometrics
Descriptor	:	capture
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	migration
Descriptor	:	race
Descriptor	:	Social Sciences
Descriptor	:	surveillance
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/18725465-01201002‬