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Brian K. Murphy <brian@radicalroad.com>Date: Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 11:26 AM
Subject: [WSF-Discuss] On migration and identity: nterrogating the meaning and apparatus of global border regimes
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http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n05/frances-stonorsaunders/where-on-earth-are-you
‘All migrants know that
the reply to the question “Who on earth are you?” is another
question: “Where on earth are you?” And so they want what
we’ve got, a verified self that will transport them to our
side of history.’
~ Frances Stonor Saunders
Globalisation promised a borderless
world, but it has delivered an age of neurotically policed zones
and cubicles. To cross a border legally now involves an
unprecedented level of scrutiny: fingerprint and iris scans,
chips embedded in your passport, hidden sensors to detect your
heartbeat and carbon dioxide emissions from thirty feet away,
the tick-box confessional of ‘Are you now or have you ever been
. . .' Frances Stonor Saunders inspects
the complex apparatus of today’s border regimes and their
obsession with the verified self. Frances Stonor Saunders’s
piece in this issue was delivered as the second of this year’s
LRB Winter Lectures at the British Museum. (Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4-B_2OfgUA&feature=youtu.be
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Read full essay here:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n05/frances-stonorsaunders/where-on-earth-are-you
LRB Issue dated 3 March 2016
VIDEO | LRB WINTER LECTURES 2016
Where on Earth are you?
Frances Stonor Saunders inspects the complex apparatus of
today’s border regimes and their obsession with the verified
self.
[ Frances Stonor Saunders has worked as an independent film
producer on such documentaries as Hidden Hands: A Different
History of Modernism. She was an arts editor at the New
Statesman in London. A graduate of Oxford, she lived in
Rome before returning to take up residence in London. She is the
author of Who Paid the Piper?: The CIA and the Cultural Cold
War, for which she won the Gladstone History Prize” and The
Woman Who Shot Mussolini (Metropolitan Books, 2010).]
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