Digital Mobilities and Smart Borders

Conclusion: Reimagining border digitisation

Shaping the digitisation of borders and travel

This book interrogates how one of the key technological and social changes occurring in the 21^st Century, that of digitisation or the impregnation of digital devices into relations, spaces and processes, is impacting the context of the sovereign state border. In doing so, this book contributes to pressing debates occurring across the social sciences relating to digitisation including how technologies are being embodied by, and co-produced alongside, their users (Lupton, 2016a, 2020a; Thrift, 2014); the ways advanced algorithms are reinventing modern political and power relations (Amoore, 2020; Beer, 2019; Elliott, 2019); and whether the production ...