CAREER: Migration, Human Rights, and Security

该奖项支持一项CAREER提案，该提案将把研究和教育结合起来，深入分析人道主义技术。该项目将研究跨州和基层应对移民的四种技术的出现和整合：GPS和ICT技术、法医DNA、同位素分析和生物识别技术。对这些技术的系统研究将提供关于移民作为移民创新和实验空间的新见解，以及融合人权和安全目标的混合技术的兴起。尽管移民是国家、文化、监控和公民身份理论化的一个重要问题，但很少有人关注它作为科技创新的源泉。本研究分析了围绕移民的多种技术，这些技术共同充当混合技术，部署在移民权利社区和基于国家的执法部门中，为经验理解移民和应对移民提供了独特的范例。这项研究的结果将为技术治理和伦理实践提供新的见解，并将有助于促进跨学科和跨国的科学和移民方法。家庭机构为少数民族学者和社区提供了一个理想的场所，并发展与文化相关的跨学科科学和技术研究。这个项目是对移民作为知识生产空间的研究。它试图探索当代北美执法、监视和人权组织的区域。借鉴科学技术研究、人权批判性研究和移民理论，本研究探讨了创新在全球移民中的作用以及与之相关的制度问题。该项目将采用分层案例研究方法，结合民族志观察、深度访谈、参与式测绘和档案研究，分析围绕移民的多种技术的创新用途及其在移民主体形成中的作用。通过与法医实验室和执法行动进行人种学研究；对科学家、技术开发人员和创新者的采访；通过参与测绘和对移民的采访，该提案试图阐明形成融合的技术实践。这个项目的结果将有助于民族志的国家，科学和当代公民从有利位置的人在移动。这个项目为移民的理论化增加了一个新的维度，引起了人们对科学作为知识创造舞台的重要作用的关注。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports a CAREER proposal that will unite research and education towards an in-depth analysis of humanitarian technologies. The PI will examine the emergence and consolidation of four technologies which straddle state-based and grass-roots responses to migration: GPS and ICT technologies, forensic DNA, isotope analysis, and biometrics. The systematic study of these technologies will provide new insights about migrations as spaces of innovation and experimentation on the part of migrants, and the rise of hybrid technologies which fuse human rights and security goals. Although migration is an important issue for theorizing the state, culture, surveillance, and citizenship, less focus has been given to it as a generator of scientific and technological innovation. In analyzing multiple technologies surrounding migrations which together act as hybrid technologies, deployed within both migrant rights communities and state-based law enforcement, this research offers a unique paradigm for empirically understanding migration and responses to it. The results of this research will offer new insights for technological governance and ethical practice, and it will serve to foster cross-disciplinary and transnational approaches to science and migration. The home institution offers an ideal site for engaging minority scholars and the community and to develop culturally relevant cross-disciplinary science and technology studies. This project is a study of migration as a space of knowledge production. It seeks to explore a contemporary zone of enforcement, surveillance and human rights organizing in North America. Drawing on the science and technology studies, critical studies of human rights, and migration theory, this study explores the role of innovation within the global migration and regimes’ concerns related to it. The project will use a layered case study method that combines ethnographic observation, in-depth interviews, participatory mapping, and archival research to analyze innovative uses of multiple technologies surrounding migration and their role in migrant subject formation. Through ethnographic research with forensic laboratories and law enforcement initiatives; interviews with scientists, technology developers, and innovators; and participatory mapping and interviews with migrants, the proposal seeks to elucidate the technological practices which shape integration. The results of this project will contribute to the ethnography of the state, science, and contemporary citizenship from the vantage point of people on the move. This project adds a new dimension to the theorization of migration, bringing critical attention to the role of science as a knowledge-making arena.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.