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                Dear all,

we are happy to announce this: together with Stephan Scheel
,
Leuphana University of Lüneburg, and myself
, we are co-convening a
panel entitled "From knowing to mattering: How do issues of science and
technology in migration control become matters of care and concern?" at the
6th Nordic STS Conference in Oslo
,
June 7 - June 9, 2023. Submit an abstract until March 1 to our panel and
join us there! Further info below and here

!

Best wishes,

Nina & Stephan


Panel: From knowing to mattering: How do issues of science and technology
in migration control become matters of care and concern?

Regimes of border and migration control have become heavily
militarized and technologized
in the past two decades. However, the use of science and technologies for
purposes of border enforcement remains contested for various reasons.
Concerns range from structural racism and discrimination being inscribed in
technologies to lack of transparency, data protection, accountability and
oversight of black-boxed technologies and automated decision-making. What
remains understudied to date is how critical publics emerge and unfold
around such issues, and how critical publics emerge and make a difference
in the design and implementation of technologized border and migration
regimes. Science and technology studies (STS) offer scholars suitable
analytical tools for studying contestations and controversy, how issues
turn into matters of concern (Latour 2004, 2005) and care (Puig de la
Bellacasa 2011, 2012), how publics emerge (Chilvers and Kearnes 2015),
assemble and consolidate around issues as issue-publics (Marres 2005;
Marres and Lezaun 2011; Michael, 2017). The issue and practice-oriented
understanding of political contestation promises new insights into the
articulation of critical issues around technologized migration and border
control. To bring STS-inspired methods and analytical sensitivities to bear
on borders and migration is crucial for at least three reasons: First,
practices of border control are often shrouded in ignorance, secrecy and
opaqueness, hence lots of potential issues are hardly known. Secondly,
those affected by measures of border control and related technologies and
infrastructures are often turned into non-publics and invisible collectives
(Broeders and Dijstelbloem 2015). Thirdly, technologically and
scientifically innovative means of border control – such as the use of
drones and satellites to monitor border zones, facial recognition tunnels
in airports facilitating seamless travel or the use of speech biometrics
and the analysis of asylum seeker’s mobile phone data for country-of-origin
determination– are often introduced in response to migration events which
are framed in terms of ‘crisis’, while the technologies themselves are
framed as disruptive ‘gamechangers’. Hence, this panel asks –inspired
by
the conference theme – how issues and publics around the use of science and
technology for purposes of border and migration control emerge in a policy
field in which narratives of crisis, disruption and repair predominate.
This panel is also interested in contributions that explore how
controversies unfold in a highly contested policy field, the actors
involved and the issues and concerns being articulated, amplified or
silenced, as well as the processes and dynamics which enable or inhibit the
articulation of issues of science and technology in border and migration
control as matters of care and matters of concern. It invites contributions
that mobilise STS-inspired concepts and sensitivities to engage with
questions such as the following: How do critical and marginalised voices
become part of larger publics and controversies? How do issue-publics
emerge, and which controversies and concerns gain authority and manage to
affect the design, composition and operational logics of surveillance and
information infrastructures? What does an STS-inspired,
non-anthropocentrical approach add to the study of migrant protests, acts
of civil disobedience, migrant solidarity and political participation of
non-citizens in representative democracies?
Panel Organizers: Nina Amelung and Stephan Scheel

--
"Remember to imagine and craft the worlds you cannot live without, just as
you dismantle the ones you cannot live within."
— Ruha Benjamin

Recent selected publications:

Amelung, Nina. 2021. Crimmigration Control” across Borders
:
The Convergence of Migration and Crime Control through Transnational
Biometric Databases
.
*Historical
Social Research *46 (3): 151-177.

Amelung, Nina. 2021. Politics of (Non)Belonging: Enacting Imaginaries of
Affected Publics Through Forensic Genetic Technologies. In: *Racism and
Racial Surveillance.*

*Modernity
Matters.*

Edited
By Sheila Khan, Nazir Ahmed Can, Helena Machado. London: Routledge.

Amelung, Nina; Gianolla, Cristiano; Sousa Ribeiro, Joana; Solovova, Olga.
2021. Material Politics of Citizenship: Connecting Migrations With Science
and Technology Studies.

London: Routledge.

Amelung, Nina; Machado, Helena. 2021. *Governing expectations of forensic
innovations in society: the case of FDP in Germany*

. New Genetics and Society, 1-22 .

Amelung, Nina; Queirós, Filipa; Machado, Helena. 2021. Desafios éticos e
democráticos da vigilância genética na Alemanhae em Portugal
, In Machado, Helena (Ed.), *Crime e
tecnologia: Desafios culturais e políticos para a Europa*. Porto: Edições
Afrontamento Lda, pp. 41-63.
Amelung, Nina; Granja, Rafaela; Machado, Helena. 2021. Modes of
Bio-Bordering: The Hidden (Dis)integration of Europe
. Singapore: Springer.

Amelung, Nina; Gianolla, Cristiano; Solovova, Olga & Sousa Ribeiro, Joana.
2020. *Technologies, infrastructures and migrations: material citizenship
politics*
.
Citizenship Studies, 24:5, 587-606.

Amelung, Nina, Rafaela Granja, and Helena Machado. 2020. “Communicating
Forensic Genetics: ‘Enthusiastic’ Publics and the Management of
Expectations’.” Pp. 209–26 in *Exploring Science Communication*, edited
by
S. R. Davies and U. Felt. London; Thousand Oaks, New Delhi, Singapore: Sage.

Machado, Helena, Rafaela Granja, and Nina Amelung. 2020. “Constructing
Suspicion Through Forensic DNA Databases in the EU. The Views of the Prüm
Professionals
.”
*The British Journal of Criminology* 60(1):141–59.

Amelung, Nina and Helena Machado. 2019. “Affected for Good or for Evil :
The Formation of Issue-Publics That Relate to the UK National DNA Database
.” *Public
Understanding of Science* 28(5):590–605.

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--
"Remember to imagine and craft the worlds you cannot live without, just as
you dismantle the ones you cannot live within."
— Ruha Benjamin

Recent selected publications:

Amelung, Nina. 2021. Crimmigration Control” across Borders
:
The Convergence of Migration and Crime Control through Transnational
Biometric Databases
.
*Historical
Social Research *46 (3): 151-177.

Amelung, Nina. 2021. Politics of (Non)Belonging: Enacting Imaginaries of
Affected Publics Through Forensic Genetic Technologies. In: *Racism and
Racial Surveillance.*

*Modernity
Matters.*

Edited
By Sheila Khan, Nazir Ahmed Can, Helena Machado. London: Routledge.

Amelung, Nina; Gianolla, Cristiano; Sousa Ribeiro, Joana; Solovova, Olga.
2021. Material Politics of Citizenship: Connecting Migrations With Science
and Technology Studies.

London: Routledge.

Amelung, Nina; Machado, Helena. 2021. *Governing expectations of forensic
innovations in society: the case of FDP in Germany*

. New Genetics and Society, 1-22 .

Amelung, Nina; Queirós, Filipa; Machado, Helena. 2021. Desafios éticos e
democráticos da vigilância genética na Alemanhae em Portugal
, In Machado, Helena (Ed.), *Crime e
tecnologia: Desafios culturais e políticos para a Europa*. Porto: Edições
Afrontamento Lda, pp. 41-63.
Amelung, Nina; Granja, Rafaela; Machado, Helena. 2021. Modes of
Bio-Bordering: The Hidden (Dis)integration of Europe
. Singapore: Springer.

Amelung, Nina; Gianolla, Cristiano; Solovova, Olga & Sousa Ribeiro, Joana.
2020. *Technologies, infrastructures and migrations: material citizenship
politics*
.
Citizenship Studies, 24:5, 587-606.

Amelung, Nina, Rafaela Granja, and Helena Machado. 2020. “Communicating
Forensic Genetics: ‘Enthusiastic’ Publics and the Management of
Expectations’.” Pp. 209–26 in *Exploring Science Communication*, edited
by
S. R. Davies and U. Felt. London; Thousand Oaks, New Delhi, Singapore: Sage.

Machado, Helena, Rafaela Granja, and Nina Amelung. 2020. “Constructing
Suspicion Through Forensic DNA Databases in the EU. The Views of the Prüm
Professionals
.”
*The British Journal of Criminology* 60(1):141–59.

Amelung, Nina and Helena Machado. 2019. “Affected for Good or for Evil :
The Formation of Issue-Publics That Relate to the UK National DNA Database
.” *Public
Understanding of Science* 28(5):590–605.

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