@inbook{1a3b8c576c254d0d9d5b99cd4c823735,
title = "'Is it a donkey?': Presences, senses and figuration in human-technological border control",
abstract = "The chapter presents and analyses forms of presence detection in the control of border transgressions by using sonar and haptic technologies that {\textquoteleft}listen{\textquoteright} to and {\textquoteleft}feel{\textquoteright} for presences and hidden persons, and different forms of imagery, notably radar and infrared. Such technologies do not identify individuals but only kinds of bodies - humans, birds, donkeys. The border guards develop refined skills for distinguishing the living from the inert, humans from non-humans. The chapter pursues by inversing the perspective to encompass different forms of surveillance of the surveyors themselves, whether by migrants or management, with a vivid description of migrant technological skills and tactics for crossing the border.",
author = "Perle M{\o}hl",
year = "2020",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-0-367-19968-6",
series = "Routledge Studies in Anthropology",
publisher = "Routledge",
pages = "100--114",
editor = "Olwig, {Karen Fog} and Kristina Gr{\"u}nenberg and Perle M{\o}hl and Anja Simonsen",
booktitle = "The Biometric Border World",
address = "United Kingdom",
}