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Flawed biometric rollouts in emerging economies: evidence from Jamaica, Afghanistan, and Kenya
Linköping University, Department of Culture and Society, Division of Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO). Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4314-9596
2022 (English)In: Breakthroughs in Digital Biometrics and Forensics / [ed] Kevin Daimi, Guillermo Francia III, Luis Hernández Encinas, Cham: Springer, 2022, p. 345-365Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter considers the social conditions in which large-scale biometric systems have been deployed in emerging economies across three cases: Jamaica, Afghanistan, and Kenya. Its contributions to the study of biometrics and forensics are both empirical and theoretical. The empirical contribution rests on the attention to comparatively under-researched geographies and political processes of technology-driven social transformation in the Caribbean, central Asia, and east Africa. The theoretical contribution rests on the elaboration of sociopolitical factors that have hampered the effective uptake of these technologies as well as engagement in dialogue with the body of literature on development-driven technological interventions into the governance of emerging economies. By undertaking a critical review of these contemporary cases, the chapter presents the state of the art in both theory and implementation while illustrating the necessities of popular legitimacy, equitable access, universal registration, and clearly elaborated data protection regimes in biometric rollouts.

Abstract [sv]

I det här kapitlet behandlas de sociala förhållanden under vilka storskaliga biometriska system har införts i tillväxtekonomier i tre fall: Jamaica, Afghanistan och Kenya. Det bidrar både empiriskt och teoretiskt till studiet av biometri och kriminalteknik. Det empiriska bidraget vilar på uppmärksamheten på jämförelsevis underbeforskade geografier och politiska processer för teknikdriven social omvandling i Västindien, Centralasien och Östafrika. Det teoretiska bidraget består i att man utarbetar sociopolitiska faktorer som har hindrat ett effektivt utnyttjande av denna teknik och att man för en dialog med litteraturen om utvecklingsdrivna tekniska ingrepp i styrningen av tillväxtekonomier. Genom att göra en kritisk granskning av dessa aktuella fall presenteras i kapitlet den senaste tekniken i både teori och genomförande, samtidigt som det illustrerar nödvändigheten av folklig legitimitet, rättvis tillgång, universell registrering och tydligt utarbetade dataskyddsordningar i samband med införandet av biometriska system.

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Cham: Springer, 2022. p. 345-365
Keywords [en]
Biometrics, Technocolonialism, Jamaica, Afghanistan, Kenya
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Other Geographic Studies International Migration and Ethnic Relations Peace and Conflict Studies Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified Forensic Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-193885DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-10706-1_16Libris ID: 1jb97l66zsw32h20ISBN: 9783031107054 (print)ISBN: 9783031107085 (print)ISBN: 9783031107061 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-193885DiVA, id: diva2:1757612
Available from: 2023-05-17 Created: 2023-05-17 Last updated: 2025-05-08Bibliographically approved

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