Outsourcing Crimmigration Control
Digital Borders, the IOM, and Biometric Statehood
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 August 2025
- ISBN 9780198927495
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 222x144x22 mm
- Weight 500 g
- Language English 750
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Short description:
Outsourcing Crimmigration Control develops a new theoretical framework for understanding how digital technologies can transform border control and criminal justice practices. Presenting original evidence, this book discusses the potential risks and serious political effects of surveillance technologies, despite their apparent neutrality.
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Digital technologies have reshaped the boundaries of criminal justice and border control, and the merger of these fields has resulted in technologically mediated practices of 'crimmigration control' on a global level. This book explores the role of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and its Migration Information and Data Analysis System (MIDAS) in shaping these digital crimmigration control practices.
Outsourcing Crimmigration Control: Digital Borders, the IOM, and Biometric Statehood draws on interdisciplinary scholarship to develop a new theoretical framework for understanding the political effects of new surveillance technologies. Examining empirical data gathered through elite interviews, document analysis, and field observations in Abuja, this book reveals how the deployment of MIDAS in Nigeria was underpinned by political and epistemic postcolonial hierarchies between Global North states, the IOM, and Nigerian federal authorities. This technical system resulted in the emergence and expansion of historically unprecedented digital crimmigration control practices in Nigeria, which created new risks to human rights and justice.
Through this in-depth study, Samuel Singler advances the Southernization and decolonization of criminology, as well as the development of more just and equitable digital futures at the border. Outsourcing Crimmigration Control will be a vital read for students and academics in the fields of criminology, law, international relations, and sociology, as well as practitioners and civil society organizations working on border management, international humanitarian efforts, and criminal justice.
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Table of Contents:
PART I. CRIMINAL JUSTICE, BORDER CONTROL, AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
Introduction: Digital Borders and Social Exclusion
Sovereign Power, Postcolonial Hierarchy, and Global Crimmigration Control
Theorizing Crimmigration Control Technologies: Performativity, Pragmatism, and Humanism
From Unease to Critique: Pragmatism as a Research Paradigm
PART II. MIDAS
MIDAS and the Performative Dimensions of Global Migration Management
'Who is in charge here': Territory, Extraversion, and Local Agency in the IOM's Capacity-building Practices in Nigeria
'If we don't do it, it's just not going to happen': Shaping the Digital Futures of Crimmigration Control in Nigeria
A Golden Touch? MIDAS, Biometrics, and the Expansion of Crimmigration Control
Conclusion: Enacting the 'Crimmigrant Other' in the Global South
