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TY - JOUR
T1 - Suspect technologies
T2 - forensic testing of asylum seekers at the UK border
AU - Tutton, Richard
AU - Hauskeller, Christine
AU - Sturdy, Steve
N1 - "This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article whose final and definitive form, the Version of Record, has been published in the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies 2014 [copyright Taylor & Francis], available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01419870.2013.870667"
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The entanglement of border control technologies and immigration policies and practices with discourses of race, national identity and belonging has long been a focus of scholarly interest. In this paper we discuss the Human Provenance Pilot Project (HPPP), the aim of which was to evaluate the utility of genetic and isotope testing to corroborate asylum seekers’ accounts of their nationality. We subject the HPPP to a detailed socio-technical analysis, highlighting how technologies, practices and modes of thought travelled from the policing context to the asylum context, illuminating the unspoken prejudices that made that transfer possible, and reflecting on implications of the HPPP for academic research, policy advice and the asylum system.
AB - The entanglement of border control technologies and immigration policies and practices with discourses of race, national identity and belonging has long been a focus of scholarly interest. In this paper we discuss the Human Provenance Pilot Project (HPPP), the aim of which was to evaluate the utility of genetic and isotope testing to corroborate asylum seekers’ accounts of their nationality. We subject the HPPP to a detailed socio-technical analysis, highlighting how technologies, practices and modes of thought travelled from the policing context to the asylum context, illuminating the unspoken prejudices that made that transfer possible, and reflecting on implications of the HPPP for academic research, policy advice and the asylum system.
KW - border control
KW - isotope testing
KW - genetics
KW - science
KW - asylum
KW - forensics
U2 - 10.1080/01419870.2013.870667
DO - 10.1080/01419870.2013.870667
M3 - Journal article
VL - 37
SP - 738
EP - 752
JO - Ethnic and Racial Studies
JF - Ethnic and Racial Studies
SN - 0141-9870
IS - 5
ER -