The International Organisation for Migration and the Surveillance of the Displaced Populations of the Global South
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) advocates the use of data to stabilise the displaced populations of the Global South. During the 2010s, it developed and refined three digital technologies targeting these populations: the Displacement Tracking Matrix, the MIDAS border surveillance...
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| Publicado en: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/remi, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lenguaje: | Anglais |
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Revue européenne des migrations internationales
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumario: | The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) advocates the use of data to stabilise the displaced populations of the Global South. During the 2010s, it developed and refined three digital technologies targeting these populations: the Displacement Tracking Matrix, the MIDAS border surveillance system, and the mobile application MigApp. This article argues that these technologies converge in a surveillant assemblage that seeks to discipline displaced people according to a biopolitical rationality and the technocratic production of data. This assemblage delineates cognitive and physical spaces to capture and release displaced people and their data through five stages of surveillance: observation, data standardisation, application of security mechanisms, disciplinary capture, empowering capture. Although the assemblage produces data of uncertain utility and ignores the securitization policies of the Global North, it legitimises IOM’s authority within a humanitarian field that falls outside its historical remit. |
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