Korea Journal
- P-ISSN0023-3900
- E-ISSN2733-9343
- A&HCI, SCOPUS, KCI
Questioning the South Korean Smart Border: A Critique of Surveillance Racism, Biometric Identity, and Anti-Immigration
Questioning the South Korean Smart Border: A Critique of Surveillance Racism, Biometric Identity, and Anti-Immigration
- minkyusung@ unist.ac.kr
초록
This paper examines the border as an assemblage of surveillance technologies that exert a contentious claim to algorithmic accuracy based on raceembedded biometric data processing. I offer the term surveillance racism—a regime of normalization in which the technical reification of race for the biometric database configures anti-migration and anti-refugee discourses for the well-being of a population or nation. I put forward the border as a biopolitical enclosure in which biometric monitoring through security and risk calculations of threat to the state generates, propagates, and maintains discourses of racism. A discussion of South Korea’s Integrated Border Management System uncovers the workings of a biopolitical enclosure that is committed to constructing a claim about the survival of the Korean nation pitted against the peculiar racial category of unhealthy immigrants from nonWestern, developing countries.
- keywords
- biometrics, border control, digital enclosure, surveillance racism, biopolitics, South Korea
Abstract
This paper examines the border as an assemblage of surveillance technologies that exert a contentious claim to algorithmic accuracy based on raceembedded biometric data processing. I offer the term surveillance racism—a regime of normalization in which the technical reification of race for the biometric database configures anti-migration and anti-refugee discourses for the well-being of a population or nation. I put forward the border as a biopolitical enclosure in which biometric monitoring through security and risk calculations of threat to the state generates, propagates, and maintains discourses of racism. A discussion of South Korea’s Integrated Border Management System uncovers the workings of a biopolitical enclosure that is committed to constructing a claim about the survival of the Korean nation pitted against the peculiar racial category of unhealthy immigrants from nonWestern, developing countries.
- keywords
- biometrics, border control, digital enclosure, surveillance racism, biopolitics, South Korea
- 투고일Received
- 2022-03-10
- 수정일Revised
- 2022-06-30
- 게재확정일Accepted
- 2022-07-01
- 출판일Published
- 2023-03-31
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