CAREER: Migration, Human Rights, and Security

该奖项支持一项职业计划，该计划将联合研究和教育，深入分析人道主义技术。PI将审查四项跨越国家和基层对移徙反应的技术的出现和巩固：全球定位系统和信息和通信技术、法医DNA、同位素分析和生物测定。对这些技术的系统研究将提供关于移民作为移民创新和试验空间的新见解，以及融合人权和安全目标的混合技术的兴起。尽管移民是对国家、文化、监督和公民身份进行理论化的一个重要问题，但作为科技创新的推动者，人们对移民的关注较少。在分析与移民有关的多种技术时，这些技术共同作为混合技术部署在移民权利社区和以国家为基础的执法部门中，这项研究为从经验上理解移民及其反应提供了一个独特的范式。这项研究的结果将为技术管理和伦理实践提供新的见解，并将有助于促进对科学和移民采取跨学科和跨国的方法。该机构为吸引少数群体学者和社区以及发展与文化相关的跨学科科学和技术研究提供了理想的场所。这个项目是关于移民作为知识生产空间的研究。它寻求在北美探索一个执法、监督和人权组织的当代区域。这项研究借鉴了科学技术研究、人权批判研究和移民理论，探讨了创新在全球移民中的作用以及与之相关的政权关切。该项目将使用分层的案例研究方法，结合人种学观察、深度访谈、参与性绘图和档案研究，分析围绕移民的多种技术的创新使用及其在移民主体形成中的作用。通过与法医实验室和执法倡议进行的人种学研究，对科学家、技术开发人员和创新者的采访，以及参与性绘图和对移民的采访，该提案试图阐明塑造融合的技术实践。该项目的结果将有助于从流动人口的角度对国家、科学和当代公民的人种学做出贡献。这个项目为移民的理论化增加了一个新的维度，使人们对科学作为知识创造领域的作用给予了严格的关注。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.