Introduction

1. The Migration Mobile: Border Dissidence, Sociotechnical Resistance and the Construction of Irregularized Migrants by Martin Bak Jørgensen and Vasilis Galis

Part 1: Configuration of the Border Regime(s)

2. The Embodied Identity of Migration and Border Biometrics by Brigitta Kuster and Vassilis S. Tsianos

3. Vulnerability and Flexible Population Filtering: Lessons Learnt, from the EC Hotspot to the Pandemic by Evie Papada and Antonis Vradis

4. Reconfiguring Removal: Commercial Purpose Creeps in Biometric EU Databases by Martin Lemberg-Pedersen and Oliver Joel Halpern

5. Liminality, Asylum, and Arbitrariness in the Greek State’s Implementation of the 2016 EU-Turkey Statement by Vasilis Vlassis

Part 2: Configuration of Migration Space

6. Asylum Seekers Experiencing Forced Immobility as Offline and Online Actors by Claudia Lintner

7. Navigating the Resources of the Migrant Digital Space by Luca Rossi

8. ‘Fast trusting’ – Practices of Trust During Irregularized Journeys to and Through Europe by Nina Grønlykke Mollerup and Marie Sandberg

Part 3: Reconfiguring the Border Regime(s) and Emancipation of Space

9. Counter-Narrating the Mediterranean Border Regime and Reclaiming Rights: Refugee Voices in Libya and Across the Sea by Sara Creta and Chiara Denaro

10. Autonomy of Migration in the Age of Deportation – Migrants’ Practices Against Deportation by Leandros Fischer and Martin Bak Jørgensen

11. Migration and Counter-Information Practices: Enhancing Mobility While Subverting the Mainstream Media by Vasiliki Makrygianni and Vasilis Galis

Part 4: Epilogue

12. Afterword: Counter-Mapping the Technology-Hype in Migration Studies by Martina Tazzioli

About the Authors

•While each of the authors already leads in their respective field, coming together will now give this publication the opportunity to reach a deeper and simultaneous understanding of concepts such as the border, solidarity with migrants, border technologies, migration, resistance.

•The book investigates the complex entanglements of migration and technology by drawing on an interdisciplinary framework combining Critical Border and Migration Studies, Social Media Studies, European Ethnology, and Science and Technology Studies (STS).

•Inspired by Actor-Network Theory, the book adopts an analytical symmetry between humans and nonhumans at the borderland. We aim to redefine the notion of migration by making it able to trace connections between various technologies and actors.

•Methodological pluralism including policy analysis, qualitative approaches entailing non-participant observation, ethnographic interviews, and device tours as well as data-scraping techniques analyzing social media data.

•Empirical focus on border technologies from both the (supra)state and grassroot perspective.