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Data Borders

How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry around Immigrants
By Melissa Villa-Nicholas
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Data Borders explores the pervasive surveillance technologies shaping the lives of Latinx immigrants along the US-Mexico border. Melissa Villa-Nicholas details how biotechnologies map undocumented individuals biologically, creating a data-driven system that defines and controls citizenship. The book uncovers a hidden network involving law enforcement, Border Patrol, ICE, and even public workers, all complicit in collecting and exploiting data often without consent. Drawing on interviews with Latinx immigrants, it highlights the intricate relationship between technology, data, and human rights, urging the need to understand and oppose the weaponisation of personal information through artificial intelligence.
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This insightful and critical work is ideally suited for academics, activists, and readers interested in immigration, surveillance, data privacy, and human rights, particularly in the context of US border policies and Latinx experiences.

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Data Borders investigates entrenched and emerging borderland technology that ensnares all people in an intimate web of surveillance where data resides and defines citizenship.

Detailing the new trend of biologically mapping undocumented people through biotechnologies, Melissa Villa-Nicholas shows how surreptitious monitoring of Latinx immigrants is the focus of and driving force behind Silicon Valley's growing industry within defence technology manufacturing.

Villa-Nicholas reveals a murky network that gathers data on marginalised communities for purposes of exploitation and control. This network implicates law enforcement, Border Patrol, and ICE, but also pulls in public workers and the general public, often without their knowledge or consent.

Enriched by interviews of Latinx immigrants living in the borderlands who describe their daily use of technology and their caution around surveillance, this book argues that in order to move beyond a heavily surveilled state that dehumanises both immigrants and citizens, we must first understand how our data is being collected, aggregated, correlated, and weaponised with artificial intelligence.

We must then push for immigrant and citizen information privacy rights along the border and throughout the United States.

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Journal of Borderlands Studies describes the book as essential for anyone seeking to understand surveillance dynamics in migration and border control, especially within the US-Mexico context. The text is seen as inspiring and relevant globally where borders are increasingly digitalised. Significance magazine notes the book's focus on Mexican-to-US immigration and law enforcement, emphasising its critical look at the lack of data rights and the impact on the histories and voices of undocumented migrants.

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Book Details

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ISBN: 9780520386075

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 July 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 6 b-w figures, 2 tables

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 318g

Pages: 224

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About the Author

Melissa Villa-Nicholas is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Rhode Island. Her work focuses on the Latinx histories and practices of information and technology, immigrant information rights, and critical approaches to information science. She is author of Latinas on the Line: Invisible Information Workers in Telecommunications, which received an honorable mention for the inaugural Labor Tech Research Network book award.

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