Seminars

Nov 22, 2011, 13.00-14.00
Place: FOI, Linköping – Conference room Hugin
Language: English
Dr Edison Pignaton de Freitas, Högskolan i Halmstad
"Cooperative Context Aware Setup and Performance of Surveillance Missions Using Static and Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks

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29 Nov kl 12.00-13.00

Lokal: Visionen (ingång 27, B-huset)

Speaker: Dr. Elin Palm, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Linköping University
Topic: "Surveillance, migration and ethics"
Tisdag 29 Nov kl 12.00-13.00

Lokal: Linköpings Universitet, Visionen (ingång 27, B-huset)
Abstract
Surveillance technology is increasingly used to control regular migration. Biometric-based e-
passports, registers of passenger data, Smart CCTVs and "naked machines" (full body scanners) are examples of systems implemented to monitor migration flow, verify migrants identity and to enhance security. Surveillance regimes are also employed to control the identity and movements of irregular migrants and to reduce unauthorized migration. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), infrared CCTV-cameras and sensors, thermal imaging systems, GPS-equipped bracelets and the networking of vast databases are employed for those purposes. Member states making up the external frontiers of the Schengen zone like Ukraine - a source and transit country for irregular migrants - (Uehling, 2004, Düvell, 2008) have strengthened the range and scope of their border protection activities by means of e.g. infrared sensors and binocular thermal imaging systems (Jandl, 2007), typically coordinated by Frontex. More recently, upheavals and on-going conflicts in North Africa have the increased migration flow across the Mediterranean sea and triggered intensified border controls along the international land- and maritime borders of Southern European countries. The usage of surveillance regimes to control migration and migrants raises a number of ethical questions. To what extent, if at all, can border control and immigration restrictions be justified? And,under what conditions, if at all, can surveillance-based migration control be ethically justified?

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