Surveilling Im/mobilities Under the Digital Security State: An Ethnography of CBP One™ Across the Extended Mexico-US Borderlands

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dc.contributor.advisorVisweswaran, Kamalaen_US
dc.creatorFlores, Lupe Albertoen_US
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-17T17:22:18Zen_US
dc.date.created2024-12en_US
dc.date.issued2024-12-06en_US
dc.date.submittedDecember 2024en_US
dc.date.updated2025-01-17T17:22:18Zen_US
dc.description.abstractThe security state is expanding through digital border control and migration management. Based on twenty-eight months of ethnographic fieldwork in northern and central Mexico, I examine how the Mexico-US border becomes displaced across territorial and digital boundaries into various domains of social life along the migrant trail. Previous studies emphasize the political dimensions of surveillance within security states. By studying encounters between asylum-seeking migrants, humanitarian workers, US officials and software engineers acting under punitive asylum policies and digital innovation, my research interrogates how the sociotechnical development and implementation of CBP One™, a border-crossing smartphone app, generates bureaucratic, expressive and popular cultural forms that enforce and resist the transnational im/material bordering and surveillance practices of digital security states in the twenty-first century.en_US
dc.embargo.lift2030-12-01en_US
dc.embargo.terms2030-12-01en_US
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/118231en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectasylumen_US
dc.subjectmigrationen_US
dc.subjectdigital bordersen_US
dc.subjectsecurity stateen_US
dc.subjectim/mobilitiesen_US
dc.subjectCBP One™en_US
dc.subjectMexico-US Borderlandsen_US
dc.titleSurveilling Im/mobilities Under the Digital Security State: An Ethnography of CBP One™ Across the Extended Mexico-US Borderlandsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialTexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentAnthropologyen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineAnthropologyen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen_US
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